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Transfiguring Desire: Divining The Origin Of Species, Sonny Nordmarken, Samuel Ace
Transfiguring Desire: Divining The Origin Of Species, Sonny Nordmarken, Samuel Ace
Sonny Nordmarken
In this piece, we combine autoethnographic and poetic methods/genres to examine intimate and social experiences we have had as two transmasculine queers with complex sexual and gender histories in an intergenerational relationship. If queerness/transness is a “species,” our title, playing on Darwin, promises an answer to oft-asked problematic questions of queer/trans origins. Refusing to address this question, we instead turn Darwin on himself and examine intimate moments in our lives to show how we have experienced the constant formation and personal evolution of desire and identity. Tracing memories reaching back 28 years for one of us and 58 years for …