Queer Punk, Trans Forms: Transgender Rock and Rage in a Necropolitical Age
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Queercore, a radical queer punk movement, was instigated in Toronto in 1985 as a response to the decade’s rise in anti-queer violence and the mainstreaming of “respectable” (white, bourgeois) gays and lesbians via emergent politics of marriage and militarization. More than thirty years later, queer punk has evolved—or one might say transformed—to include other issues and identities, turning from gay and lesbian grievances and toward trans territories via a younger, genderfluid generation. This chapter thus recontextualizes and extends earlier writings on queercore, including the author’s own, in order to trace the queercore sub-scene that one might call “transcore”—a trans-centered lineage that reaches from foundational figures like Jayne County in 1970s New York, to the popularity of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Against Me! in the early 2000s, to the contemporary upsurge in angry, anti-normative transgender punk led by the likes of G.L.O.S.S. (Girls Living Outside of Society’s Shit). In contouring this collectivity, this chapter draws from previous work on imagined violence within queercore and scholarship on the righteous rage of trans existence to stipulate the sustained stakes of queercore within a necropolitical age in which trans folx (particularly trans women of color) are being literally and figuratively targeted for violence and left to die.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.047 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".