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How Transgressive a Transsexual? The Contradictions in Transgression and Conformity Within Transfeminine Print Erotica
No full textMainstream 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 the contradictions in transfeminine desirability in these works. Despite overwhelming bodily normativity, the presence of a penis invariably led to models being framed as lurid, transgressive erotic objects. Pihlak’s findings demonstrate the insufficiency of the concept of normativity. Then and now, the smallest breach to normative white cisfemininity renders one’s claim to womanhood unstable. While this instability has material consequences for trans femmes, for many this precarity is solely an alluring invitation, to take a walk on the wild side
EVERYDAY RESISTANCE IN MAKING ONESELF VISIBLE: YOUNG ADULTS’ NEGOTIATIONS WITH INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL CONTROL IN YOUTH SERVICES
No full textThis article concerns young adults’ institutional encounters with professionals in the context of youth services. The encounters are analyzed as institutional social control — the practices and mechanisms that steer young people’s conduct in accordance with the normative order. We make visible young adults’ acts of everyday resistance as they negotiate, problematize, and challenge aspects of institutional social control. The data consist of 17 life-course interviews with young adults aged 18 to 24 who visited youth shelters organized by the Finnish Red Cross. Participants expressed criticism of the normative expectations and the categorizing and controlling practices that they encountered. However, there is a danger that in the institutional encounters, their acts of everyday resistance are not acknowledged as political agency; instead, stereotypical notions strengthen the interpretation of the young adults as problematic or in need of protection. This lack of recognition may contribute to increased vulnerability in the young people the institutions are intended to support
DECONSTRUCTING MAINSTREAM DISCOURSES OF CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AS IT CONNECTS TO SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
No full textThis article reviews literature on survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) who were preschool-aged when the abuse occurred, and applies critical discourse analysis to reveal power relations within this field of research. Utilizing themes of narrative theory, this article demonstrates how the current discourse has promoted a single story of developmental trajectories marred by entrenched deficits. The reviewed literature often utilized definitive language in describing a narrative of damage that not all survivors identify with. We critically examine this narrative as an expression of power that risks misrepresenting a large group of people. Additionally, we recommend that future research promote a discourse of multiple stories in which survivors have agency to author their own stories
JUST TECHNOPANIC OR A REAL RISK? PUBLISHING CHILDREN’S PICTURES ONLINE: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE
No full textThe internet has become an essential resource for social interaction among children, but it brings with it both advantages and disadvantages that depend in part on how it is used. This study, which is anchored in social learning theory, employed a desktop review of existing literature that focused on Kenya but covered global and other regional levels as well. The study found a number of benefits of the internet for children: updating family and friends on new developments in the children’s lives, reviewing photos and other records of past events, engaging in online interactions, and increasing their capacity for learning. Nonetheless, there are also internet-specific risks, such as access to inappropriate content and unsafe interactions with other children or adults. Other risks include “digital kidnapping” and contact with perpetrators who encourage children to engage in sexual activity. Although some countries have policies on internet usage, few have specific policies or guidelines addressing children’s vulnerability when sharing their pictures online. Moreover, most such policies are not applied in practice, especially in African countries. The study recommends developing and implementing policy frameworks to protect children online and using privacy settings to protect their information
Not in Anyone’s Backyard: Exploring Environmental Inequality under Section 15 of the Charter and Flexibility after Fraser v Canada
No full textPollution hotspots exist across Canada and disproportionately affect low-income and racialized populations. Examples include Indigenous communities like Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Ontario or Beaver Lake Cree Nation in Alberta; predominantly Black communities in rural Nova Scotia; and poor neighbourhoods in urban cities like Toronto or Vancouver. Such communities face disproportionate environmental burdens due to their proximity to landfills, fossil fuel infrastructure, plastic pollution, and toxic waste. This proximity causes harrowing health effects that would otherwise not be acceptable elsewhere in Canada. Although these inequalities stem from a number of interrelated factors, the role of the state in regulating (and facilitating) polluting activity is key. Across jurisdictions, ministries grant pollution permits to new and existing facilities based on deficient regulatory standards laid out under environmental protection legislation. Ministry officials have direct control over when and where pollution occurs. This paper contends that the inequality that results from these regulatory frameworks triggers constitutional scrutiny under section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is an example of adverse effects discrimination from a legislative framework that appears neutral on its face. Although the application of section 15 to environmental inequality is underexplored, recent developments in the jurisprudence suggest that remedying adverse (environmental) effects discrimination may be more viable than ever. This viability stems from the majority decision in Fraser v Canada (Attorney General), 2020 SCC 28, which introduced significant flexibility into the causation and evidentiary requirements needed to establish adverse effects discrimination under the section. Under the new framework, the popular slogan “Not in Anyone’s Backyard” might just be given room to transform from a longstanding aspiration to a new reality
Le « charme de la voix » : topiques du son enchanteur et réflexions musicales au XVIIIe siècle
No full textThe formula of the "Charm of the voice", which is the title of a play by Thomas Corneille from 1657, constitutes the topical matrix of a vast corpus of works which, throughout the classical age, have questioned the powers of the voice. The article identifies two sets of topoi: in the tale of "Beauty and the Beast" and its rewrites between the 1740s and the 1770s, the "charm of the voice" is essentially considered from the point of view of gentleness and civilizational process, while in Cazotte\u27s short story, Le Diable amoureux (1772-1776), it appears as a destabilizing power in relation to the witch\u27s imaginary. La formule du « Charme de la voix » qui fait le titre d’une pièce de Thomas Corneille de 1657 constitue la matrice topique d’un vaste corpus d’œuvres qui ont interrogé, tout au long de l’âge classique, les pouvoirs de la voix. L’article dégage deux séries de topoï : dans le conte de « La Belle et la bête » et ses réécritures entre les années 1740 et les années 1770, le « charme de la voix » est essentiellement envisagé sous l’angle de la douceur et du processus civilisationnel, tandis que dans la nouvelle de Cazotte, Le Diable amoureux (1772-1776), il apparaît comme une puissance déstabilisatrice en relation avec l’imaginaire de la sorcière. 
« A grant noise » : la performance sonore dans les « Cent Nouvelles nouvelles »
No full textThis article, assuming that the dimension of sound in the theatricality of Cent nouvelles nouvelles hasn’t been enhanced enough, observes that the evocation of some sounds completes and enriches the motives and situations that are at the basis of the theatrical content of the work. It also highlights the idea that by the narrative taking a comedic performative direction, the traces of sound in the text are thus as much signs of a dynamic of conflict as a troubled universe marked by mistrust. The text that finds its power in this aesthetic of conflict is less forged by the common narrative basis of other narrations than by the surplus of performance and sound. As a result, the article concludes with the reflection that the visibility and audibility of a body of text can’t stop themselves from assuming a performative charge. If sound doesn’t add anything to the story-telling, it adds a sure value to the narration.
Cet article, partant du fait que la dimension sonore de la théâtralité des Cent nouvelles nouvelles n’a pas été suffisamment mise en valeur, observe que l’évocation de certaines sonorités complète et enrichit des motifs et des situations qui sont à la base de la teneur théâtrale de l’ouvrage. Il souligne aussi l’idée que le récit prenant une direction performative comique, les traces sonores du texte sont alors autant de signes d’une dynamique du conflit, d’un univers troublé marqué par la méfiance. Le texte qui trouve sa puissance dans cette esthétique du conflit est moins forgé par la base narrative commune à d’autres récits que par le surplus performatif et sonore. Ainsi l’article conclut-il sur la réflexion que la visibilité et l’audibilité d’un texte-corps ne peuvent s’empêcher d’assumer une charge performative. Si le son ne raconte rien, il ajoute une valeur certaine à la narration. 
El muro como objeto desde perspectivas Latinoamericanas / "The Wall as an Object from Latin-American Perspectives"
No full textEn este texto, la coordinadora del proyecto internacional Objetos antes y después del muro presenta las prácticas artísticas que abordan de manera crítica el fenómeno de los muros fronterizos contemporáneos y los desplazamientos migratorios desde la caída del Muro de Berlín el 9 de noviembre de 1989, incluyendo perspectivas político-estéticas y el despliegue de nuevas identidades globales.
In this short text, the coordinator of the international project Objects Before and After the Wall introduces the reader to artistic practices that critically address contemporary border walls and migratory displacements since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, including political-aesthetic perspectives and the deployment of new global identities