Trans youth, science and art: creating (trans) gendered space

This article is based on empirical research which was undertaken as part of the Sci:dentity project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Sci:dentity was a year-long participatory arts project which ran between March 2006 and March 2007. The project offered 18 young transgendered and transsexual people, aged between 14 and 22, an opportunity to come together to explore the science of sex and gender through art. This article focuses on four creative workshops which ran over two months, being the ‘creative engagement’ phase of the project. It offers an analysis of the transgendered space created which was constituted through the logics of recognition, creativity and pedagogy. Following this, the article explores the ways in which these transgendered and transsexual young people navigate gendered practices, and the gendered spaces these practices constitute, in their everyday lives shaped by gendered and sexual normativities. It goes on to consider the significance of trans virtual and physical cultural spaces for the development of trans young peoples' ontological security and their navigations and negotiations of a gendered social world

Le Déplacement et la crise du réel : la socio-sémiotique et la biphobie de Basic Instinct

Cet article vise à étudier le film Basic Instinct du point de vue de sa narration et de sa composition sémiotique, afin de démontrer comment le film relève, à sa base, de la biphobie. À cet égard, la réponse militante des communautés lesbiennes et gaies face au film, qui le décrivent comme « homophobique », est nettement insuffisante. L’étude démontre qu’une analyse socio-sémiotique est utile pour le développement d’une théorie et d’une pratique de la bisexualité en tant qu’identité possible.The article provides a reading of the narrative and semiotic compositions of the film Basic Instinct, in order to demonstrate its implicit biphobia. The lesbian and gay communities' response to the film, denouncing it as "homophobic", is thus read as a misreading. A social semiotic analysis proves useful, then, for the development of critical bisexual theory and activism