Abstract:
Based on contributions from transfeminism and queer studies, we seek to reflect on the affective-sexual experiences of a trans, white, and heterosexual woman, highlighting sexual practices and desires, romantic relationships, marriages, and the search for partners in dating apps. We observe that affective-sexual relationships are crossed by a tense negotiation between being and seeming in the face of cisheteronormative policies, so that the mechanisms of power are both spatialized and displaced in this dimension of life. Throughout her trajectory, the participant developed her performative strategies and resistance practices with a view to fully experiencing her existence, including the dimensions of sexuality and of relationships in the affective-sexual field.
Keywords:
transsexuality; sexuality; gender; transfeminism; queer studies