THEORIZATIONS OF THE BODY: TOWARDS AN APPROACH INTEGRATING SEXED/GENDERED AND RACED EMBODIMENT IN TRANSGENDER THEORY

Saniya Taher

THEORIZATIONS OF THE BODY: Judith Butler, Gender Trouble and Bodies That

Matter Body as denaturalized and discursive

Gayle Salomon, The Sexual Schema Sexual Schema: Recuperates sexuality as mode

of being, sensed; relationality to other and the world through desire

Sarah Ahmed, Embodying Strangers Bodies as differentiated, contingent, and located,

and, intertwined within regimes of representation. Encounter

Transgender Poet from Philadelphia

Embodied experience as Contingent

Permeability of Skin & Intersubjectivity

Unforming of body in strange encounterReforming of body in encounter of potential and hope with audience

Kavindu "Kavi" Ade’s “IT,” Spoken Word Performance

CONCLUSION The body is a being that is not reduced to the

material nor the psychic, but one involving the two.

Sexed/gendered subjectivity is corporeally specific, situated within the dynamic body, and always positioned within social and cultural meaning –race still matters- through one’s relations to others

The body’s experience, or embodiment, is shaped through contingencies, formed and materialized by experiences of desire, belonging, and practices of differentiation its boundaries are formed, reformed, and unformed through its

being touched by others.