![]() ![]() ![]() Transgender spaces are spaces which transgender bodies have passed through, marked, and made into something new. Trans, she reminded me, means across: across a line, between categories. She cites the feminist author Sara Ahmed’s concept of “the desire line,” which describes a queer way of moving through the city-following paths of desire, not the provided paths. Through this spiritual landscape of prisons and involuntary holds, Stryker describes transgender people running, weaving, and modifying. The only places that are built for transgender people are jails and hospitals and psychiatric wards, you know, graveyards. Stryker went on, “I think about transgender space in the same way. ![]()
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