Abstract
AbstractThe TV series Pose explores ballroom culture in 1980s New York bringing to the fore a variety of vulnerable subaltern identities who go through a process of total rejection and nullification in both homo and heteronormative communities due to their ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality, finding a site for self-assertion and empowerment in the micro-world constituted by houses and balls. In this chapter, the author analyses trans*-ness as an interstitial move that problematises any simplistic reading of essentialisation and naturalisation and explores the trans* condition as resisting more than reproducing heteronormative dichotomies of gender, sex and sexuality in a continuous process of what (Sullivan,.Stryker and Whittle (eds), The Transgender Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, 2006) has called “(un)becoming other(s)”. In doing so, the trans* subject reflects the contradictions inherent to any embodiment of a model figure, a failed attempt which the author, following (Halberstam,.The Queer Art of Failure, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011), reads as a generative nothingness which explodes in a volatile multiplicity that nullifies “normality”.
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