Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Jess Joseph and Tobias Wiggins to the podcast!
Rendering Unconscious episode 385.
In this episode, I sat down with Tobias and Jess to discuss their special issue of Studies in Gender & Sexuality: “Cisteria!: A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics.” This issue is the first of its kind, bringing together twelve trans and gender-expansive authors (artists, clinicians, scholars, and writers across multiple geographies) to theorize cisteria. This is our reworked concept that flips the long history of psychoanalytic hysteria and examines how cis anxieties are projected onto trans lives at psychical, interpersonal, and political levels. The pieces in the special issue range from analytic essays to poetry, artwork/music, speculative theory, crossword puzzles, collage, and various irreverent riffs taking aim at transphobia through trans world making.
Be sure to check out the Introduction to the special issue “Cisteria!: A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics.”
Link to their upcoming free event: Spring Meeting Pre-Conference Workshop: Cisteria! A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics, April 22, 8:30am - 12:00pm ET via Zoom (FREE).
