Contributors

Introduction: Sex as It Really Is by Amy De'Ath

"Gender Is the Extent We Go to in Order to Be Loved" by Kay Gabriel

Kay Gabriel thinks about what it means to change sex, reframes trans politics in terms of sexual liberation, and fits the fight over the right to change sex into the class politics of the conjuncture.

On the Cisness of the Bourgeoisie by Emma Heaney

Emma Heaney argues that recognizing cisness as a crucial credential in the development of bourgeois cultural supremacy clarifies the class and racial politics of the precipitous increase in policies and laws seeking to erase trans life globally in recent years.

Two Substantialisms: On Value and Sexual Difference by Amy De'Ath

Amy De’Ath explains how a value-critical inversion of Judith Butler’s argument that gender substantializes sex enables a critique of the compact between liberal political economy and “gender-critical” feminism, allowing us to theorize sex as a mediating technology that has a definite and systematic relation to capitalist accumulation.

Making Gender on the Shop Floor: Literary Labor in Stone Butch Blues by Samuel Solomon

Samuel Solomon reads Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues as a novelistic theorization of postwar, Northeastern labor history as gender history, showing how the feminization of literary production can shape queer/trans Marxist politics.

Book Reviews

Still Thinking in Terms of Totality by Devin William Daniels

Devin William Daniels reviews After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon.

Fictions for Another Future by Jason M. Baskin

Jason M. Baskin reviews How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present by Mathias Nilges.