title: On the affective force of "nasty love".
abstract: Tackling the mimetic logic of sex-gender that limits the transsexual subject's sexuality into seeming a poor representation, the author argues that trans pornography and autoethnographic accounts from trans scholars emphasize the affective dimension of trans sex, a material remainder absent from mimetic theories of sexuality. Developing concepts from Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy, in tandem with Morty Diamond's film Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papí and Wil (2007) and a selection of trans theorists, this article elaborates on the horizon of affective potential opened by transgender, brown, kinky, and pornographic "nastiness." The event of "nasty love" solicits a differential becoming, growing the edge of self.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Literature & Art, Center for Gender and Diversity, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences , Maastricht University , Maastricht , the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Eliza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Steinbock
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D004882:Erotica / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*