So before I launch in in earnest, I just want to provide a little roadmap of what I’m going to say here. I have a
little preamble, then an epigraph, then I’ll go into the body of the paper.
So very briefly: In this paper, I’m going to be making an argument about transness (among other
things), and to do that I’m going to be looking at a genre of internet pornography called sissy porn, sometimes
also called forced feminization porn. And what I’m going to argue is that transness is essentially a kind of
desire, or rather several different kinds, and that sissy porn basically stages the nonconsensuality of that desire,
or one of those desires. And this work I’m sharing with you today is part of a larger project called Bad Politics.
By bad politics, I mean what happens when subjects living under oppression just don’t feel like resisting that
oppression and do something else instead. I’m happy to talk more about that project in the Q&A.
OK, that being said. The title of this paper is “Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?” And I’ve got an
epigraph: “Try arguing with an orgasm sometime.” That’s the feminist legal theorist Catherine MacKinnon,
from her book Only Words.
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