How to Become an American Transgender Theorist (A Recipe)

Name: How to Become an American Transgender Theorist (A Recipe)
Director: Viviane Namaste
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998-01-01
Cast: Viviane Namaste

1998 · 8 min · Comedy

A short video satirizing queer theorists' Instrumentalization and abstraction of trans people in the 1990s.

Directed by Viviane Namaste

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