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AbstractIntroductionMen who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) are profoundly affected by HIV with high HIV prevalence and incidence. This population also faces strong social stigma and legal barriers, potentially impeding participation in research. To date, few multi‐country longitudinal HIV research studies with MSM/TGW have been conducted in SSA. Primary objective of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 075 study was to assess feasibility of recruiting and retaining a multinational prospective cohort of MSM/TGW in SSA for HIV prevention research.MethodsHPTN 075, conducted from 2015 to 2017, was designed to enroll 400 MSM/TGW at four sites in SSA (100 per site: Kisumu, Kenya; Blantyre, Malawi; Cape Town, South Africa; and Soweto, South Africa). The number of HIV‐positive persons was capped at 20 per site; HIV‐positive persons already in care were excluded from participation. The one‐year study included five biobehavioural assessments. Community‐based input and risk mitigation protocols were included in study design and conduct.ResultsOf 624 persons screened, 401 were enrolled. One in five participants was classified as transgender. Main reasons for ineligibility included: (a) being HIV positive after the cap was reached (29.6%); (b) not reporting anal intercourse with a man in the preceding three months (20.6%); and (c) being HIV positive and already in care (17.5%). Five (1.2%) participants died during the study (unrelated to study participation). 92.9% of the eligible participants (368/396) completed the final study visit and 86.1% participated in all visits. The main, overlapping reasons for early termination included being (a) unable to adhere to the visit schedule, predominantly because of relocation (46.4%), and (b) unable to contact the participant (32.1%). Participants reported strong motivation to participate and few participation barriers. Four participants reported social harms (loss of confidentiality and sexual harassment by study staff) that were successfully addressed.ConclusionsHPTN 075 successfully enrolled a multinational sample of MSM/TGW in SSA in a prospective HIV prevention research study with a high retention rate and few documented social harms. This supports the feasibility of conducting large‐scale research trials in this population to address its urgent, unmet HIV prevention needs.

The support network that perpetuates transgender women are social organizations that seek positive action mechanisms to generate a safe space in the face of the different contexts of discrimination that each of them have. The objective of the research is to determine the levels of resilience developed by transgender women who receive assistance from the support networks of the Bolívar canton, Manabí, Ecuador. The investigative approach is mixed, with a qualitative and quantitative structure, the situational state is described, through inductive and deductive techniques, it starts for the application of the SVRS-RES Test, and through the use of the INEC survey instrument, it is allows to recognize the current states of the investigated population. The results indicate that the support networks to which transgender women belong, carry out support campaigns on HIV issues, execute projects that are born from the same key population, and in turn use meetings with the members of these representations of the civil society, to generate safe spaces within their own environments. The levels of resilience that occur within these support networks are the strategies that provide for overcoming discrimination problems, little access to employment and concentration to eradicate gender violence that is conceived from the political, social and social construction cultural. Keywords: Resilience level, Support network, Gender identity. ; La red de apoyo que mantiene perpetúa a las mujeres transgéneros, son las organizaciones sociales que buscan mecanismos de acción positiva para generar un espacio seguro ante los diferentes contextos de discriminación que tienen cada una de ellas. El objetivo de la investigación es determinar los niveles de resiliencia desarrollados por las mujeres transgéneros que reciben asistencia de las redes de apoyo del cantón Bolívar, Manabí, Ecuador. El enfoque investigativo es mixto, de estructura cualitativa y cuantitativa, se describe el estado situacional, mediante las técnicas inductivas y deductivas, ...

A trans body's path in eight folds -- Lincoln Street -- Boombox -- Prayer for the workingman -- Identity poem -- The conversation -- Lips like Elvis -- In this dungeon, all prisoners are free to leave -- The first time -- Sharing trans : internet transgender discourses and the end of gatekeeping -- Lessons from the locker room -- Pigeon hunters -- Splinters -- Manhood is boring -- Trans grit -- Holding on with both hands -- Man pageant, unscripted -- My life in ink -- The love that remains -- Antoinette, for example -- Car crash on Interstate 5 -- Soil, shit, and compost -- Half as sensitive -- The fourth level -- Throwing a sheet over the ghost.

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This article proposes to engage with the etiological question haunting the transsexual subject as a sociogenic project of identifying and analyzing relevant problematizations of transsexuality. The article elaborates on the social contexts of the biomedical, sociological, and genealogical problematizations of transsexuality, critically assessing their onto-epistemic stances and political fields. Building on the limitations of these three problematizations, the article projects a fourth problematization drawing from Marxist-feminist approaches. To this end, it engages critically with four different conceptualizations of transsexuality in current trans Marxist debates and establishes the conditions for a distinct historical materialist problematization. Finally, the article puts forward a definition of transsexuality as a technology of containment of the possibility of gender mobility and ambiguity within the Western biopolitical generative dispositive in its functional relation to the capitalist mode of production. The containment works through the displacement of a structural conflict of social reproduction specific to the Western modern/colonial gender order to the interiority of the trans subject, ultimately foreclosing the possibility of the democratization of relations of procreation. Gender intransigence is proposed as an epistemic and political category for historical materialist problematization of transsexuality which can provide an alternative to the hegemonic framework of gender identity.

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This article makes a case for developing a theoretical account of historically determined gendered, trans, and queer epistemologies out of value-form readings on social reproduction. The materialist turn in queer studies is revisited here first by critically engaging with Meg Wesling's GLQ article "Queer Value" (2012) in order to present a non-ontologizing conceptualization of labor that would avoid politically affirming stances toward historically feminized positions within the process of reproduction of labor-force. Second, the author reads the Foucauldian account of sex through the fetish character of capitalist social forms to expose the functioning of a sociohistorically specific epistemology of the body. Ultimately, the article unfolds a negative understanding of queer and trans processes of embodiment as precariously inaugurating new modes of sociality unrealizable under capitalist social reproduction.

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This article aims to explore the political economy of trans life through an examination of the category of the "femboy" as a means for understanding the concrete processes of sexuality and social activity responsible for the internally differentiated valuation of kinds of trans labor and the wider regime of accumulation of which these valuations form a part. Following Kevin Floyd's historical materialist account of gendered performativity, it details the femboy's historical emergence within hierarchies of racialized sexuality. Using the case of online streaming, the article argues that femboys' disavowal of transness, and intelligibility to dominant regimes of sexuality, subtends their higher valuation than trans women in comparable lines of work. Making use of the case study, the article argues that identification itself appears to affect the judgment and valuation of individuals within the labor process and that such aesthetic judgements—the contours of how capital "sees" its subjects—are both ineliminable and constitutive of the concrete differences that emerge in the process of production. Aesthetic judgment and the process of abstraction therefore offer an entry point into both the analysis of the labor process more generally, and the relations of desire, abjection, and identification that enforce the present subordination of trans people.

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Online news outlets have published a fair amount of journalism concerning Isabel Fall's 2020 science fiction short story, "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter," later retitled "Helicopter Story." Yet the highly polarized reception the story received has made up the bulk of the discourse. This is a tragic oversight, as the most interesting thing about "Helicopter Story" is not the online reaction to its original title but how the content of the story itself serves as an illustration of a dialectical history of gender in the United States. In Fall's story, gender is partially demystified by acknowledging the eradication of Indigenous cross-gender practices, racially imbricated plasticity, and the fusion of state and medical power that determines and shapes gender. Even so, some mystification remains. Gender is a reified social relation whose origins are an attempt to install binary biological sex. However, this reification does not result in the reinstallation of gender as ineluctable truth. Rather, it provides the opportunity for the expression of utopian desire, as theorized in the queer Marxism of Kevin Floyd or the dialectical literary criticism of Fredric Jameson, both of whom draw heavily from Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse when proposing that the only way out of reification is through. A proposed subgenre of science fiction, "speculative gender fiction," is a literary form uniquely suited for exploring both the reification of gender and the utopian desire to escape from it.

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Often defined by its characteristic and heavy use of autotuned vocals, the microgenre hyper-pop is perhaps just as recognizable for the ubiquitous transness of its most important artists. Reading trans hyper-pop performers Blackwinterwells, laura les, and quinn's uses of the figure of the "bedsheet ghost," this article explores trans artists' responses to late capitalism's regimes of alienation as a means of desubjectivization through strategies of becoming spectral—resisting commodification through a spectral orientation toward their sonic corporeality.

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Gay Shame is a direct-action collective that has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years. The group has never had any funding, and its members have met almost every week for decades and produced a wide range of interventions articulating an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, abolitionist queer politics. The author has been following the work of Gay Shame since its beginnings, engaging in related work in other cities and sometimes overlapping and collaborating with Gay Shame's members, since the early 2000s. Gay Shame's work has been prophetic. Compared to the other groups and people the author has worked with on this same intersecting set of concerns and interventions since the mid-2000s, Gay Shame has anticipated the conditions of reductive identity politics, the conditions of gentrification, and the methods of neoliberal co-optation with more accuracy and precision than anyone else. Again and again, Gay Shame has anticipated these conditions before others, making interventions that were often quite controversial because others were not yet ready to identify and name the contradictions and antagonisms that Gay Shame was naming. At this moment, when resistance is more necessary than ever, but groups and projects struggle under the weight of conflict, co-optation, and counterinsurgency, it is particularly useful to study how a group like Gay Shame has initiated and sustained this work.

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This roundtable is a place-based conversation on Black anarchism, transfeminism, and transmisogynoir with edxi betts, NZ Suékama, and g, three Black trans femme activists, organizers, and independent scholars. Moving deftly between topics like Marxism, Afro-pessimism, and abolition, this roundtable outlines problems of co-optation within radical-movement work and critiques Eurocentric modes of knowledge production. Through organic relations built within organizing spaces, special issue editor Ren-yo Hwang reached out to edxi betts to be part of this featured roundtable, and edxi, in turn, contacted NZ Suékama, who connected us with her frequent interlocutor, g. Edxi first encountered NZ's intellectual writings online, in 2020, offering that "it was refreshing and affirming seeing another Black trans femme go through such similar issues of having to navigate liberal, statist, respectable, and even white anarchist politics." Likewise, NZ recounts first meeting "both g and edxi on social media, connecting individually around theories of transmisogynoir as well as critiques of abuse in leftist organizations." NZ and g describe themselves as "theoretical co-conspirators, both publishing our ideas with Red Voice," an online publication. NZ, edxi, and g had an opportunity to review and edit their contributions, and this issue's guest editors sought to honor the flow of their conversation as much as possible by retaining its conversational syntax, which purposefully rejects traditional academic forms.