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• W4317702944 abstract "Hil Malatino's Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich (bio) It is true, that Lauren Berlant quip, that there is nothing more alienating than having one's pleasures disputed by someone with a theory (2012, 5). I am taking their words out of context here, I know, but at this juncture in the unfolding present/history of trans oppression through the mechanism of reality enforcement (Bettcher 2014, 392), I really feel this. There are people, more everyday it seems, with theories disputing the most minor and mundane pleasures—the pleasure of running with other girls, of self-confirming aesthetic experience, of, of course, sexual intimacy—because these pleasures are or might be trans ones, might, in fact, reproduce trans life. I am not going to rehearse the contents of those theories here as they have, already and for decades, been exhaustively described. However, what has been less described, at least in the interdisciplinary space of trans studies, are the ranging effects/affects of living so thoroughly under dispute, how it is that hostile theories operate at once publicly and intimately, at the level of the law and at the level of the senses. The theories that organize the dominant world, that alienate me/us from it, work on our nervous systems, make us strange and estranged and, sometimes, hard to bear. It is this context of pervasive trans alienation that has, I think, made Hil Malatino's Trans Care (2020) such an already-beloved book, one of the most immediately useful works of contemporary critical trans studies even though (because?) it clocks in at only seventy-nine pages, bibliography included. That is, against—but not, importantly, indifferent to—the alienating and strange-making theories that organize the dominant world, Trans Care is very interested in what we know and so focuses on tracking our intimate, juxtapolitical arts and practice[s] of living otherwise, living through (5). Malatino makes theory from the ways we live, ways that are shaped by and in excess of the forces arrayed against us. Rather than dispute our pleasures he seeks to describe and understand them, even when those pleasures run counter to his own ethical and political commitments, a point to which I will return. For this reason, Trans Care is an exemplary instance of what Talia Bettcher (2019) has put forward as an essential project of trans philosophy and, I would insist, trans thought not necessarily [End Page 171] so disciplined: illumination of trans experiences in what she aptly calls the WTF (653). Counter to a model that regards producing forms of estrangement as the proper purpose of theory/philosophy, Bettcher insists, [w]e trans people live an 'everyday' shot through with perplexity, shot through with WTF questions. We live in the WTF. We did not need philosophy [or theory] to uncover its perplexity. It was already there. If philosophy is going to give us anything at all, it had better be answers or at least some partial, provisional illumination. Otherwise, it cannot help us (651). Trans Care helps us. Indeed, helpful is the primary word I would use to describe it. The book exudes the energy of your neighborhood trans masc and/ or butch dad who will come over at once to help you jump your car and never mention that you have still not returned their jumper cable, though it is already years after the fact. Further, as an intervention into the feminist literature on care/reproductive labor, which for the most part does not begin from trans/ queer places and so cannot precisely describe what it is a many-gendered we are doing when we show up for each other, Trans Care offers a vocabulary for understanding the care labor that this figure, this particular but also general trans dad, performs as part of the ethos of trans worlds. Its ability to do so emerges from Malatino's relentless, loving focus on the everyday rhythms of the trans mundane (5). Also, from Malatino's willingness, insistence even, on speaking from a particular—autobiographical but not exactly personal—I, an I that reassures me that I am not alone (Berlant 2008, vii-x). Counter to the alienating function of the dominant world, this..." @default.
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• W4317702944 title "Hil Malatino's Terrible We" @default.
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