A new materialist approach to transmasculinity : Bodies, acts, and objects

M. van Midde

This study explores a transmasculine embodiment through bodies, acts, and objects, from a new materialist perspective. The study is situated within the field of transgender studies, and the research question, ?how can transmasculine embodiment through the materialities of the body and everyday acts and objects be understood through new materialism?, is answered through an autoethnography. Key findings are that a) a trans-becoming emerges through the phenomenon of meeting someone?s eyes, b) through material-discursive practices transmasculine people work with and against the body, and c) onto-epistemologies of race and gender emerge through the interplay of temporal, spatial, and corporeal processes.