“Transing the Screwball”: The Philadelphia Story as T4T Sex-Comedy

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This undergraduate thesis examines the screwball comedy as a trans genre. The work suggests that the specter of sex-change is inseparable from early modern anxieties around the free movement and political liberation of women, and that, for this reason, the “screwball comedy” is a trans genre, constantly engaging transsexual bodies and trans sex through innuendo.

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Her White “Husband“ (Blog post)

While researching the reception of DW Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915) in Cleveland, Ohio for a class taught by Dr. Dan Morgan, I came across an article in the Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland’s premiere Black newspaper) which inspired me to radically reorient my understanding of early 20th century women’s history, especially in relation to film and print media.

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“Is the Vagina Created Upon the Occasion of Rape?”: Towards a “Life After Girlhood” Beyond a “Monstruous Feminine”

I wrote this essay for a course taught by Dr. Clint Froehlich. A trans/lesbian intervention into psychoanalytic feminist film theory, it critiques the notion of the “Monstrous Feminine“ as popularized by Barbara Creed. To this end, I discuss Alien and Ghost in the Shell, with an attention to depictions of rape.

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Alice Soprunova

My work-in-progress monograph, titled, “Stop Having Gender, Start Having Sex: A Radical Transfeminist Manifesto for a Post-Skrimetti America” presents a revisionist history of transgenderism in the United States. Its central claim is that discourses of “gender identity” and “gender dysphoria” are materially damaging to transsexual individuals and the transsexual movement, and that “transgender” is a uniquely cissexual epistemology incompatible with transsexual ontology and liberation.