Condition Verified: On Photography, Trans Visibility, and Legacies of the Clinic

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dc.contributor.authorJoynt, Chase
dc.contributor.authorDrager, Emmett Harsin
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-18T22:44:50Z
dc.date.available2019-12-18T22:44:50Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWe approach this paper with a shared investment in historical and contemporary representations of trans and gender non-conforming people, and our individual research in the archives of early US Gender Clinics. Together, we consider what is at stake—or what might be possible—when we connect legacies of photography used as diagnostic tools in gender clinics with snapshots of early, community-based gatherings, and the presence of trans people in contemporary art. From the archives of Robert J. Stoller and photos of Casa Susanna, to the collaborative photography of Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, and the biometric data art-theory experiments of Zach Blas, we engage a series of image-based projects, which animate underlying questions and socio-political debates about the politics of visuality, and visibility’s impact on trans and gender non-conforming people. Moreover, we argue that rhetorical strategies of proof—from conditions verified in clinics to shared existence through photography—are tethered to, and thus trapped by, the logics and discipline of legibility and re-institutionalization.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationJoynt, C. & Drager, E.H. (2019). Condition Verified: On Photography, Trans Visibility, and Legacies of the Clinic. Arts, 8(4), 150. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040150en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8040150
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11387
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArtsen_US
dc.subjectgender clinics
dc.subjectphotography
dc.subjecttransgender
dc.subjectRobert J. Stoller
dc.subjectvisibility
dc.subjectopacity
dc.subjectCasa Susanna
dc.subjectZackary Drucker
dc.subjectAmos Mac
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Gender Studies
dc.titleCondition Verified: On Photography, Trans Visibility, and Legacies of the Clinicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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