Hello!

I am an artist and professor of Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech. In my work, I focus on the ways technologies of visualization and control intersect with and threaten #trans lives.

I work in #creativecode, #sculpture, #writing, #artistbooks, and more. Lately I have been doing a lot of #webdev for my projects and in my teaching.

Earlier this year, I combined my #HTML / #CSS / #JavaScript teaching resources into a single (free and open) site that I am really proud of:

https://byhand.website

I am also interested in #horror, #scifi, #solarpunk, #retrocomputing, #historyoftechnology, #transstudies, #maps, #zines, and #ttrpgs.

#introductions

Also, if you're here and enjoy #transstudies / trans writing, check out my latest chapbook from @gutslutpress :
https://gutslutpress.com/product/conotations-digital/
gutslutpress.com/product/conotations-print/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179186175-co-notations

People interested in reviewing/interviewing can message me / the press for a free review copy!

New intro for new people!

I'm Cavar (they/them). I'm a phd candidate in #culturalstudies / #sts at UC Davis, and a #transMad writer/editor/reader. I'm EIC of Stone of Madness Press; my debut novel, FAILURE TO COMPLY, is forthcoming in 2024 from featherproof books.

I'm interested in #transstudies / #disabilitystudies / #madstudies ++ #WritingCommunity things.

More tags: #vegan #veganism #experimentalpoetry #solotravel #judaism #hiking #antipsychiatry #actuallyautistic #speculativefiction

what are peoples' approaches to citation when it comes to working with bigoted 'grey literature'? currently writing about the convergence of anti-child ableism/cissexism in "mommy blogs" and wondering how best to like...do my due diligence re: citation without giving greater voice to genocidal rhetoric. #academicmastodon #academicchatter #TransStudies #disabilitystudies

one of the next places I want to take #transmadness as an epistemic approach is ask what happens when we totally abandon attempts to legibilize, say, trans autistic reasons for transition.

what kinds of (k)new knowledges exist at the crossroads of “non-sensible” / “nonsensical” / “unadvisible” / “inadmissible” trans(ition) strategies?

#madstudies #transstudies #disabilitystudies #Madodon #actuallyautistic

"Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation." micha cárdenas

https://www.dukeupress.edu/poetic-operations

#gamedesign #poetics #emancipatorydesign #transofcolorpoetics #transstudies #decolonial

#TranspiringConsiderations
#Trans #Queer #TransStudies #QueerStudies #MutualAid

Title: We need to fund our own liberation

Transpiring Influences: 4+ years experience in social science research for LGBTQIA+ people

CW: Rants about neoliberalism and anti-trans bias in academic and research spaces

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CFP from my Inbox: UK conference in Oct 2023

Open to participants from #academia and beyond

#SexualityStudies #GenderStudies #MediaStudies #TelevisionStudies #FilmStudies #TransStudies #SexWork #PornStudies

https://www.sexincontemporarymedia.com/call-for-papers

Join me to learn more about putting trans*historicities into practice! #transstudies #arthistory https://www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-events/expanding-the-discourse-gender-queerness-in-nineteenth-century-france

Join me to learn more about putting trans*historicities into practice! #transstudies #arthistory https://www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-events/expanding-the-discourse-gender-queerness-in-nineteenth-century-france

Join me to learn more about putting trans*historicities into practice! #transstudies #arthistory https://www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-events/expanding-the-discourse-gender-queerness-in-nineteenth-century-france

#TranspiringConsiderations

Title: It’s not “genocide,” it’s just “sparkling eradication”

Transpiring Influences: Leah Owen’s “Parasitically Occupying Bodies: Exploring Toxifying Securitization in Anti-Trans and Genocidal Ideologies” (DOI: 10.1080/10402659.2022.2129000)

CW: genocide, transphobia, US/UK Pol, gallows humor

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#Trans #Queer #TransStudies #QueerStudies
#TransingPeace

#TranspiringConsiderations
#Trans #Queer #TransStudies #QueerStudies #NonViolence

Title: Is it non-violent to throw a brick?

CW: Police violence, “riots,” physical violence, homophobia, transphobia, out-dated LGBTQ terms

Transpiring Influences: Judith Butler’s “The Force of Non-Violence”

NOTE: DO NOT THROW BRICKS AT PEOPLE. Nothing I write here should be considered endorsing physical harm against anybody

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If I was bloody minded enough to start a book project (performance and policing), any thoughts on starting points beyond just writing?

I’m coming from an abandoned PhD with a seed chapter that’s already going in an edited volume I’m not sure

I want to focus on the writing process not publishing goals looking for advice from folks who completed first projects as independent scholars outside grad school

#Histodons #QueerStudies #TransStudies #ArabAmericanStudies #AsianAmericanStudies

Going to give this a Sunday boost in case anyone missed it and would like to check out the new short-form writing project I'm trying here on the fediverse. I will be exploring topics through the lens of an overeducated trans femme centering queer perspectives on society.

#TranspiringConsiderations : Death Stalks Us

How does the constant visibility of anti-trans violence shape our relationships to our lives?

#Trans #Queer #TransStudies #QueerStudies

#TranspiringConsiderations
#Trans #Queer #TransStudies #QueerStudies

Title: Death Stalks Us

CW: Trans death, Transphobic Violence, etc.

Sources: Laurel Westbrook, J. Halberstam, and Ezra Furman

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#TranspiringConsiderations

"Transpiring Considerations" is a series of short-form writing that I'm aiming to publish here each Saturday. This post will anchor a thread of links for each of these.

Part of the idea is, as Abigail Thorn describes her own work, giving away my education for free. I also want to give myself more space to have more casual writing on trans-centered perspectives. Hope these thoughts are worthwhile to share

#Trans #Transfeminism #Writing #TransStudies #QueerStudies

Love an institution where I can get "Toronto Slavic Quarterly" but not Trans Studies Quarterly

Relatedly if anyone has access to either Jules Gill-Peterson's "Trans of Color Critique before Transsexuality" or the entire The Transgender Studies Reader Remix it would be much appreciated.

#transstudies

@academicchatter

#CFP Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture has an interesting new CFP on a series of trans and queer sound studies work. It is a rolling series with no deadline listed:

See the call at the UC Press website:
https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/RES/CFPs/Resonance-%20queer%20sound_FINAL.pdf

#queerstudies #soundstudies #transstudies #mediastudies #LGBTQ+studies #sonicart #CFPalert

hello everyone! I took a bit of a prolonged absence from mastodon because ??? idk. but i'm coming back now, because i've missed this space. i value the intimate, supportive atmosphere, and know i'll need it as dissertation things ramp up! i also have some exciting news to announce and looking forward to sharing it with everyone! would love to connect with more ppl -

#DisabilityCommunity #DisabilityStudies #MadStudies #Madodon #PhdStudent #phdCandidate #TransStudies #actuallyautistic #Neuroqueer