Reconfiguring Transitional Space: Queer Negativity, Trans Imaginaries, and Impossible Bodies

The podcast explores themes of resistance, queer negativity, and the construction and deconstruction of binaries in the face of attacks on transgender individuals. Kris Grey and Griffin Hansbury discuss the importance of communities of affinity and creative expression as tools for navigating turbulent political times. Griffin introduces the concept of trans negativity as a resistance to assimilation and the "it-gets-better" narrative, advocating for dwelling in negative affects and queer rage. Kris connects this to the compulsion for trans individuals to be palatable and digestible, questioning the need to conform. The conversation touches on the erasure of transmasculinity in the cisgender imagination and the reclamation of discarded materials as a form of resistance, exemplified by Kris's work with salvaged materials from the Stonewall Inn.