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Jan 27

also plz pre-order my book PLEASURE AND EFFICACY: OF PEN NAMES, COVER VERSIONS, AND OTHER TRANS TECHNIQUES from

“a lifeline of intellect and warmth” — Rei Terada “incisive” — Jules Gill-Peterson “prepare to be vexed” — Jack Halberstam press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove

May 10

So, see you on Instagram:

@grace

.lavery.pangolin . Future book updates will go through there, or potentially from

@princetonupress

if they wanna. Book available from many places, out May 31st. Love and solidarity to all those who want them. xoxo

and with this, I’m logging out and changing my password. Twitter is full of idiots who think the government should tell them whether they’re lesbians, and it brings out both my sadistic debater-kid side and my “spiritual” soul-saving side. I don’t like myself on here, so I’m off.

I’m taking the book on tour. Come through! 05/30: Greenlight Books in BK, w/ Jack Halberstam; 06/02: Skylight Books in LA 06/07: Green Apple Books in SF, w/ Jessy Nyiri 06/14: Powells in Portland, w/ Cliff Mak 06/25: Politics and Prose in DC, with Paul Saint-Amour.

It is, quite comfortably, the most substantial work of scholarship I’ve produced to date; people will (I hope) find much to disagree with, and perhaps others will feel galvanized by its performances of and demands for joy, justice, and healing.

In its entirety, it’s really just a long footnote to its own epigraph, from Foucault’s preface to Anti-Oedipus. It’s *against* obligatory sadness, and *for* connecting desire to reality.

PLEASURE AND EFFICACY draws together and expands feminist and queer essays I’ve been working on over the last decade. There’s a bunch of Victorian literature—realism is the book’s aesthetic mode—and introduces new work on stoner neo-noir, Buffalo Bill, Kevin Rowland, and others.

Lastly, it aims to respond in meaningful ways to the ubiquity of depressive reasoning in queer theory and, perhaps especially, trans studies. My bottom surgery *might* make me happy, who knows? It’s unnecessary and superstitious to decide in advance that it won’t.

And it *also* critiques (as many of its readers have noted, it’s a bolshy book) the Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis as pure theory, seeking to rehabilitate the (strangely) unpopular therapeutic side of Freudian thought.

It also pushes back against one dominant trend in queer thought over the last couple of decades: what I have called the “romance of intractability,” which tells us that “we are not (yet) queer” (Muñoz) or similar. We are, as it goes, p queer, and the mystification doesn’t help.

But it also wants to challenge aspects of trans feminist thought that I think do trans people more harm than good. These include the notion of gender identity itself, which is an idea forced on trans people by the medical monopolization of care. We can do without it.

It obviously sets its face against the so-called gender critical ideology, whose singular obsession is the metaphysical question “what is a woman,” and its only politics is grounded on sexual ontologies: “sex-based rights.” These, as many have commented, are anti-feminist goals.

My new book, PLEASURE AND EFFICACY, is an attempt to dislodge the ontological problem from trans feminism: replace “what is it” with “how can we make it better.” This is not exactly an optimistic book, but it is, I hope, a pragmatic book.

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A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period

Friends, I’ve been back on Twitter the last few days, because I have this book to promote. But it isn’t worth the ball-ache, so I’m going to do a bit more promotion now and then log off. Please feel free to follow me on instagram, at

@grace

.lavery.pangolin

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@poa_secunda

May 8

My whole response to Lacan might be summed up "I'm not amused"

Rebecca Colesworthy

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May 8

Good morning! I just preordered--and am exceedingly excited for--

's PLEASURE AND EFFICACY: OF PEN NAMES, COVER VERSIONS, AND OTHER TRANS TECHNIQUES. Ships 5/30! I ordered thru bookshop & the

page is here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac. Pls do check it out!

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A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period

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Whenever I am asked to name an academic who inspires me, I say “Gena Zurowski.”

Walking Away from OUP Eugenia Zuroski May 4, 2023 In January 2023, I received the exciting news that my book manuscript, A Funny Thing: The Undisciplined Eighteenth Century, had been accepted for...

Earlier this year,

accepted my latest monograph for publication. Today, because I can't stomach an affiliation with a press willing to lend credence to "gender critical" fascism, I pulled my book.

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Who is The Stopgap?

is a writer from London who lives in Brooklyn.

@daniel_m_lavery

used to run another website called The Toast. It no longer exists because he tried to make money with it.

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It's better than nothing.

Daniel M. Lavery

@daniel_m_lavery

May 3

website website website. a nice new little website! it’s free and around, and you can visit it! i’m back in the dot net game with

@Jo_Livingstone

: thestopgap.net!!

thestopgap.net

The Stopgap

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Apr 26

this is what the book’s about. there’s also an act of retaliatory pettiness hidden in one of these images, of which i am very proud. iykyk 😉

and when they carry me out of this shit world, it will be in a box marked “at least she kept trying”

PLEASURE AND EFFICACY, from

, published on May 30th and available for pre-order here:

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A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period

if you like haphazard photographs of poorly-shaven transsexuals holding copies of their NEW BOOK that they received today, under the corner of a Keith Haring print in the waiting room of a gay clinic, then have I got a photo for you!!!

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the epigraph to my book is measurably better than anything that follows

Apr 22

no brain fog today, posting selfie to celebrate

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Apr 18

(thank you to the lovely publicity people at PUP for making the twitter banner and cetera, but of course I am not “leading” anything, unless it be “the witness” in a high-stakes criminal trial)

Hey, just a reminder that my second monograph is published by

next month! PLEASURE AND EFFICACY is much less focused than my first book, and much less accessible than my second. Come on you Pulitzer!!!

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Jan 27

also plz pre-order my book PLEASURE AND EFFICACY: OF PEN NAMES, COVER VERSIONS, AND OTHER TRANS TECHNIQUES from @PrincetonUPress “a lifeline of intellect and warmth” — Rei Terada “incisive” — Jules Gill-Peterson “prepare to be vexed” — Jack Halberstam press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove

Hey, some good news: I’m going to be at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in Spring 2024, as the Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Distinguished = will be working on my Sontag/badger stripe! 🦡 🦨 👵🏻

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Princeton University Press

Mar 31

The first chapter of PLEASURE AND EFFICACY is now “visible” 👀 for free on the Princeton website. Details of launch events to follow!

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Mar 31

In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Elisabeth Lavery, a leading trans scholar and activist, explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period. Read Chapter One for free to learn more: hubs.ly/Q01JS9YD0 #TransDayOfVisibility @graceelavery

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A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period

Mar 17

Okay, so, I’m forty now. As of just this minute. Survived in a world that often seemed to want to delete me, a sentiment I have occasionally shared. Thanks to those many people who have helped me reach this first blissful blush of middle-age. 🥳

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Mar 15

Popping back in to grieve with those mourning the departure of the internet’s most conspicuous twerp. Jesse Singal may have been credulous, vapid, and cruel, but he was also very stupid. I hope he finds solace leading offline campaigns against marginalized groups. R. I. P. 💋

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DauntBooksPublishing

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Feb 9

'Polychromatic, wild and joyous' Maggie Nelson 'Hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance' Carmen Maria Machado 'Maddening, snort-inducingly hilarious' Lauren John Joseph The fabulous

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's PLEASE MISS is out in paperback TODAY!!

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Feb 9

One of the highlights of last year was

's visit to the UK - a total blast. Her memoir is like no other, a complete riot, bewildering, dazzling, slyly moving, genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, and you can get it NOW in sexy paperback:

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'Polychromatic, wild and joyous' Maggie Nelson 'Hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance' Carmen Maria Machado 'Maddening, snort-inducingly hilarious' Lauren John Joseph The fabulous @graceelavery 's PLEASE MISS is out in paperback TODAY!! dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/please-mi

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Feb 2

last year, the inimitable, fabulous

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took her brilliant memoir PLEASE MISS on tour. Gorgeous bookshops, fabulous chairs & fellow authors, star booksellers - we had a blast. The pb is out next week, ready to dazzle & woo even more of you:

Please Miss | Daunt Books Publishing

Jan 27

Thanks, bye again. <3

Search for: Katie Tobin, Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, Christa Peterson, Amelia Jones—there are others, but they’re the most egregious.

I suspect I’m going to stay off notwithstanding—being off of the hell site has felt great, and so much productivity!—but I’m glad that the archive is now up and searchable, especially given the information around GC abuse of grievance procedures that I posted over the last year.