Isaac West

PISSAR's Critically Queer and Disabled Politics

PISSAR (People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms) offers an instructive example about the possibility for critically queer and disabled politics. Using public bathrooms as a site of activism, PISSAR, through the consubstantiality of shame, demonstrates the mutually constitutive and performative properties of bodies interacting in space. PISSARs actions provide pedagogical insight into the negotiation of coalitional politics, especially those politics inflected with queer concerns.

Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law

Acknowledgments Introduction: Transgender Citizenships 1. Performative Repertoires of Citizenship 2. PISSARs Critically Queer and Disabled Politics 3. INTRAAventions in the Heartland 4. GENDA Trouble 5. In Defense of an Impure Transgender Politics Notes Index About the Author

Debbie Mayne's Trans/scripts: Performative Repertoires in Law and Everyday Life

Complementing existing literatures on agency, I suggest a fuller engagement with the work of Judith Butler to emphasize the embodied practices of performative repertoires as a critical source of judgment and invention. Putting Butler into conversation with James Scotts concepts of public and hidden transcripts, this essay helps explain how subjects productively negotiate the discursive circuitries of their domination to make life more livable. To contextualize the argument, I analyze the actions of Debbie Mayne, a maleto- female transsexual, who prompted her own arrests to resist legal interpellations discordant with her own sense of self.