Seawater/C-cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland

In this work of autoethnographic research-creation, I think with my augmented breasts—beyond the medical archive and away from the clinic—as an embodied inquiry into trans geographies of sex work in the island world of Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Employing the felt knowledges of my breasts in vi...

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Published in:Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/revue d'études interculturelle de l'image
Main Author: Jefferies, Daze
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Published: York University 2020
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:c_VPew8MhxnCloze4jWjU 2023-05-15T17:21:39+02:00 Seawater/C-cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland Jefferies, Daze 2020-01-01 https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.BR.11.1.2 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1070128ar en eng York University Érudit doi:10.17742/IMAGE.BR.11.1.2 10670/1.ebku0l http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1070128ar undefined Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies / Imaginations: Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image art hisphilso Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.BR.11.1.2 2023-01-22T17:52:01Z In this work of autoethnographic research-creation, I think with my augmented breasts—beyond the medical archive and away from the clinic—as an embodied inquiry into trans geographies of sex work in the island world of Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Employing the felt knowledges of my breasts in visuals and poetics, I illustrate fishy entanglements shared between my sex work and breast augmentation that have reframed my social and sexual embodiment. Engaging with my breasts as a contact zone of embodied dis/pleasure, economic promise, and social violence, I suggest that paying creative attention to trans women’s breasts might reimage notions of trans sex-working desire. Dans ce travail de recherche et de création autoethnographique, je pense avec mes seins élargis—au-delà de l’aspect médical et clinique—comme dans une enquête incarnée sur les transgéographies du travail du sexe dans le monde insulaire de Ktaqamkuk, à Terrre-Neuve au Canada. Utilisant visuellement et poétiquement les expériences tactiles de mes seins, j’illustre les relations complexes qui se sont établies entre mon travail sexuel et l’augmentation de mes seins qui ont transformé mon incarnation sociale et sexuelle. Examinant mes seins comme une zone de contact entre le dé/plaisir corporel, l’espoir de gain économique et la violence sociale, j’avance qu’un intérêt créatif pour les seins des femmes trans pourrait créer une nouvelle image des notions de désir dans le travail sexuel des trans. Text Newfoundland Unknown Canada Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/revue d'études interculturelle de l'image 11 1
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