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Aino Pihlak is a trans woman, PhD student at the University of Toronto, and social historian of trans feminine existence. In addition to her interest in studies of historical trans feminine desirability, she is a scholar of twentieth-century, Anglophone trans feminine subcultures. Her work can be found, or is forthcoming, in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Gender & History, Sexualities, and Intersections.
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Narrative conventions might call for this special issue introduction to present trans history to the unfamiliar reader as a burgeoning field of academic inquiry. For years now, the story goes, trans history has been becoming, in the works, and on the horizon. As this exciting new collection of essays displays, trans history is, in fact, already her...
I examine conceptions of 'proper' femininity across North American and South African English-speaking transfeminine networks from the 1960s through the 1990s via a range of transfeminine periodicals. I first demonstrate the liminal nature of many members' transfemininity and how the prevalence of an affluent and otherwise normative positionality in...
Mainstream transfeminine porn was the central element shaping mid-century American cultural understandings of transness. Despite this representational importance, the study of transfeminine erotica is a niche field. This paper helps fill this gap via analysis of eighty-six issues of erotica from the late 1960s to early 1980s. Pihlak demonstrates th...
