Seawater/C-cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland

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  • Daze Jefferies Memorial University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.BR.11.1.2

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Abstract

In this work of autoethnographic research-creation, I think with my augmented breasts—beyond the medical archive and away from the clinic—as an embodied inquiry into trans geographies of sex work in the island world of Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Employing the felt knowledges of my breasts in visuals and poetics, I illustrate fishy entanglements shared between my sex work and breast augmentation that have reframed my social and sexual embodiment. Engaging with my breasts as a contact zone of embodied dis/pleasure, economic promise, and social violence, I suggest that paying creative attention to trans women’s breasts might reimage notions of trans sex-working desire.

Author Biography

  • Daze Jefferies, Memorial University
    Daze Jefferies is a multidisciplinary artist-poet-researcher at Memorial University whose research-creation focalizes upon embodiments, geographies, and histories of trans women (and) sex workers in Ktaqamkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Her work (an assemblage of poetics, sound, theory, and visuals) has been exhibited and performed at artist-run centres, conferences, festivals, galleries, and theatres nationally. She is co-author of Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands (Palgrave Pivot 2018), and she has recent publications in Transgender Sex Work and Society (2018) and Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry (2019).

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Published

2020-05-30

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2020): ReImaging Breasts

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Articles

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How to Cite

Seawater/C-cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland. (2020). Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 11(1), 17–35. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.BR.11.1.2