Abstract
The body of the essay has been described as “a warm body”, a “she”, a “queer” body, and so it is no wonder that trans writers have turned to the essay as a genre that can account for their body or even count as a body. If “to trans” is to cross and “to essay” is to try, then both are movements of the body that bend toward self-expression. This expression is especially crucial since trans bodies are bodies that are frequently read “wrong.” Essaying the trans body can offer such bodies the opportunity to be read with intention, care, and lesser precarity, as well as facilitate a newfound agency in the essayist to author previously unknowable forms and evolving truths. This chapter reads the embodied trans essaying of T. Clutch Fleischman, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, CeCe McDonald, Janet Mock, Paul B. Preciado, j wallace skelton, Susan Stryker, and Riki Wilchins, among others, to understand how they have transformed the essay and been transformed by it.
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