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So Many Tongues: Cixous and the Matter of Writing
Authors: Kaiser Birgit Mara 
Published: August 2018

AbstractFocusing on Hélène Cixous’s OR les lettres de mon père (1997), the article considers how a prominent work of the “linguistic turn” already works with the entanglement of matter and meaning. Cixous foregrounds the materiality of language, showing it is indispensable to signification. The materially inscribed letters “or” (for example, in or, hors, Georges, gorge, Oran, mort, mord, orage, sort, oreille, corps, encore) germinate multiple narrative lines that revolve around a box of letters from the narrator’s dead father. Cixous’s work explores this entwinement of language-as-materiality with materiality-as-signification in exceptional ways, which problematizes the idea of a material turn coming “after” the so-called linguistic turn of poststructuralism. The text’s polyphonic physique resists conventional oppositions of materiality and signification and unfolds a space where they are co-productive of each other. Writing in this sense—feminine writing—sidesteps the subject/object split and explores subjectivity as uniquely textured formations of continuous meaning-mattering.
Remedial Materialism: What Can Comparative Literature and Electronic Literature Learn from Each Other?
Authors: Zuern John David 
Published: August 2018

AbstractTapping the critical resources of the disciplines of comparative literature and electronic literature, this essay conducts two cross-media comparative studies to show that a supple and dynamic concept of literary “materiality” emerges when we view the specific material characteristics of texts as inseparable from their linguistic, historical, cultural, and political attributes. The first study examines the politics of typography in the work of two Indigenous poets, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake and Jason Edward Lewis; the second analyzes the gains and losses of inter-linguistic and inter-media translation in Ingrid Ankerson’s digitally animated adaptation of a poem by the nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ōtagaki Rengetsu. The essay develops the idea of textual “integrity” as a means of grounding comparative analyses in the feedback loops between material and conceptual components of literary artifacts.
Reorienting Ourselves toward the Material:Between Page and Screenas Case Study
Authors: Pressman Jessica 
Published: August 2018

AbstractAmaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012) is an augmented-reality book of poetry: a codex filled with Quick Response codes that, when activated by a web-camera connected to the Internet, project the appearance of text between the book’s pages and the reader’s computer screen. The work’s title suggests its formal aesthetic and also the type of reading practice it promotes: a comparative textual media approach. This essay uses Between Page and Screen as a case study for considering what new possibilities and orientations are opened up by the conjunction of comparative literature and comparative textual media and why we need such approaches now.
Visual-Verbal Materiality
Authors: Baetens Jan 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
This article deals with the material turn in literary criticism at the level of the visual and spatial aspects and dimensions of the text. First, it analyzes the different tendencies and changes that helped increase our awareness to this often neglected form of textual materiality. Second, it examines what may be at stake when we read these visual and spatial elements in a more conscious way. Third, it presents the work of two French theoreticians, Jean Gérard Lapacherie and Anne-Marie Christin, whose work on visuality offers both interesting theoretical insights and useful methodological tools for a better understanding of the visual material turn.
De-Indianizing Hijra
Authors: Hossain Adnan 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis essay advances a regional critique of the Indian-centric scholarship on hijra, a publicly institutionalized subculture of people typically assigned a male gender at birth who often sacrifice their genitals in return for spiritual power. The unexamined Indian hegemony in hijra studies works to reify not only hijra but also India. Drawing on ethnographic research in Bangladesh, this essay offers preliminary reflections on the need to adopt a regional approach in place of a national frame in studies of gender and sexuality, arguing that hijra subjectivities are constituted at the interstice of intra-, inter-, and transregional comings and goings. The regional approach proposed here also allows us to take into account the intraregional and cross-scalar inequalities within the geopolitically constructed South Asia.
Transgender Archipelagos
Authors: David Emmanuel 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis article explores the promise of an archipelagic analytic for transgender studies through an interpretive investigation of a beauty pageant in the Philippines. Drawing on transgender studies scholarship and the emergent field of archipelagic studies, this article traces how the pageant underwent a series of archipelagic turns when the slate of candidates shifted from representing nations to representing islands, provinces, and regions across the Philippine archipelago. This turn, the author argues, displaced the centrality of the nation and put forward a translocal and translingual focus that centered islandness and island-island relations as the primary categories of embodiment and performance. In the conclusion, this article argues more broadly that transgender studies, with its discontiguous and decentered character, can also be characterized in archipelagic terms. Taken together, this article adds a new heuristic to transgender studies scholarship, while also including transgender in the growing corpus of work in archipelagic American studies that challenges “continental exceptionalism.”
Under the Lights, Onto the Stage
Authors: Hegarty Benjamin 
Published: August 2018

AbstractIndonesia's waria commonly assert that the bodily transformations they undertake on a temporary but daily basis, which they call déndong, are central to their understanding of the self. The onerous efforts that waria make to craft their male body in line with frequently glamorous forms of feminine beauty nests within efforts to achieve visibility on the national stage. Waria also describe their gendered embodiment in terms of a personal narrative of self-actualization that sees it as one aspect of a process they call becoming. However, waria do not see déndong primarily as the expression of an individual self but assert that it is a reflection of the work of others. In this view, meeting more waria and interacting with them results in irrevocable changes to one's outer self. This article describes the historical emergence of this common understanding of selfhood and embodiment during the New Order in Indonesia (1967–98), a period characterized by the rapid growth of the mass media in the context of military rule. Emphasizing waria's own memories of this period alongside archival sources and personal photographs helps us understand how gender presentation both animates and undermines the fragile promise of national belonging in Indonesia.
Sex/Gender Insecurities
Authors: Yi Horim , Gitzen Timothy 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis article examines the South Korean military's treatment of trans people in the context of all “able-bodied men” being conscripted for two years. While trans men are exempt from service because they are not considered able-bodied men, trans women pose a significant complication for the rigid military conscription system, given that most trans women in their early twenties—the time when most will be drafted into service—have yet to change their legal gender identification. As the military's definition of one's anatomical makeup is the key criterion for conscription or exemption, the transgender body is a material manifestation of the insecurities of a rigid sex/gender system perpetuated by a masculine and patriarchal military institution. Written on the bodies of trans people is the militarization of the sex/gender system. The Cold War–born Korean military—a geopolitical binary pitting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea against the Republic of Korea—is faced with bodies in transition and resorts to anatomical determinism for the sake of national defense and (re)production.
Daydreaming Transgender in Cemetery of Splendor
Authors: Lor Prathna 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
This essay considers the staging of transsexual fantasy in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendor. Considering pivotal moments of shared intimacy where knowledge of what constitutes relations are confounded, this essay argues that it is the in-distinction of the film's dreaming form that provides the formal texture to read transgender in the film. Moreover, this essay pulls at the sutures that bind dream worlds together, not to reveal its hidden content but to show how dreams touch—and how they might touch the domains of transgender inquiry.
Biyutifrom Below
Authors: Diaz Robert 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThis article examines kabaklaan's conflation with biyuti, pageantry, and fabulosity to better understand how such a conflation facilitates complex articulations of transgender lives and aspirations in the Philippines today. While reflecting on the significance of Out Run, a film about Ladlad's unsuccessful bid to win congressional seats during the 2013 elections, and Die Beautiful, a film about the travails of a transgender beauty queen who dies soon after she wins a nationally televised gay beauty pageant, the author gleans examples of transgender resistance that do not acquiesce to the economic demands of respectability politics. Despite their seeming frivolity, beauty pageants and beauty parlors are significant spaces to will capacious forms of transgender solidarity. They animate the vitality of transgender life. Just as they did during the Marcos regime, filmic reimaginings of what the author calls “biyuti from below” index the spectacular forms of disciplining that Filipinos continue to witness with each passing day. These performances of biyuti demand that we animate multiple versions of trans lives worth living.
Transdualism
Authors: Xiang Zairong 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
The author introduces the concept of transdualism to critique dualism without relying on a dualistic model of critique, the modus operandi necessary for a critique against sexual dualism and hetero/cisnormativity. Transdualism offers an opportunity to dwell within that operation by staying below (not beyond) the “dualism,” that is, below the logic of either/or. The essay will explore the notion of “transdualism” through the hexagram Tai of the Yi Jing, which is often used in medical contexts to illustrate the body-of-orifices of Huangdi Neijing or the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor. The author reads this body-of-orifices, which is primarily represented by its nine major bodily tunnels, with yinyang philosophy as gender/sex indeterminant and shows that the Inner Canon's yinyang body-of-orifices points to something more transgressive, which could unsettle from within the naturalism of gender and sexual dualism and the nature/culture as well as other dualistic divides that have informed contemporary critical rethinking of embodiment. By unpacking the hexagram Tai alongside Inner Canon's body-of-orifices. as well as contemporary feminist, queer, and transgender theorizations of the body and sexuality, this essay aims at rethinking the materio-discursive complexity of the body-of-orifices, which has been either dualistically separated into antagonisms between man and woman, sex and gender, body and discourse, yin and yang; or one-sidedly reduced to a function of “social construction,” knowable only through language—or problematically lumped together in a gender-is-fluid postmodern “both-and,” which supposedly overcomes the metaphysico-theological “either/or.”
“In the Raw”
Authors: Zubillaga-Pow Jun 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Based on the critical concept of trans*aesthetics, the author examines the aesthetic agency of photography and photographs of and for trans* women living in two iconic periods within the history of modern Singapore, namely, the early 1980s and early 2010s. He prioritizes the creative production over the visibility agenda and receptive prejudices that pertain inherently to trans* activism. The author argues that the act of posing in front of the camera for trans* women cannot be reified but must be critically examined for its materialist ontology, a framework that includes the body, the dress, and the attitude of the model. The transformation of these three domains, including the different attitudes of being demure, fierce, or natural, will determine the otherwise transnormative subject position presented by the photographer.
Trans Formations of Male Falsetto
Authors: Chao Shi-Yan 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
With reference to the biographical documentary Doh! Oh Dear, A Female Tear (by professional falsettist Stephen Chen) and the author's personal testimony (as an untrained falsetto practitioner), this essay approaches the subject of male falsetto from three perspectives: the historical, the individual, and the geopolitical. It suggests that the male falsetto in question can be understood as a multilayered “trans” figuration that comes into being in and through historical discourses, individual embodiments, and geopolitical articulations. Given the limited scholarship on falsetto, this piece means to draw attention to and solicit further research on the much-neglected phenomenon of falsetto in queer and transgender studies.
Yao, More or Less Human
Authors: Chow Yiu Fai 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
This essay introduces Kiki, a transgender sex worker in Hong Kong, who is not adopting the term transgender and is not particularly involved with the transgender movement. Rather, she chose a particular Chinese term to conjure, evince, and categorize herself: renyao. While ren can be translated to “human being,” yao to “monster,” and renyao to “shemale,” those well versed in its vernacular circulation in Hong Kong would understand it as a somewhat old-school but definitely discriminatory, derogatory usage, primarily used to sneer at people who were not readily identifiable as male or female and are viewed as freakish, monsterlike, or less than human. With renyao, Kiki finds her ways to queer transgenderism. By reclaiming a shameful, derogatory term, by bringing transgenderism beyond the language of medicalization and legalization, by inserting playfulness and pleasure, by opting for sex work and founding an organization that defends the rights of male and transgender sex workers, by not wanting to pass, by being neither this nor that, she is renyao, not a transgender person. This essay is to insert Kiki's self-representation, visually and linguistically, into our examinations and explorations, to weave the narration of one Asian transgender person into the weft of trans scholarships and activisms in Asia.
Appropriate Amount of Regular Exercise Is Associated with a Reduced Mortality Risk
Authors: LEE DA YOUNG , RHEE EUN-JUNG , CHO JUNG HWAN , KWON HYEMI , PARK SE EUN , KIM YANG-HYUN , HAN KYUNGDO , PARK YONG-KYU , YOO SOON JIB , LEE WON-YOUNG 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACT

Purpose
This study aimed at investigating whether there is a continuous dose–response relationship between the amount of physical activity (PA) and longevity benefit.

Methods
We evaluated the records of 23,257,723 Koreans age ≥20 yr who had undergone one biennial medical evaluation by the National Health Insurance Corporation. Participants with ≥20 min of vigorous or ≥30 min of moderate PA or walking were stratified into four groups: 0 d·wk−1; 1–3 d·wk−1; 4 to 5 d·wk−1; and 6–7 d·wk−1. After calculating total metabolic equivalent task-hours per week (MET·h·wk−1), we created eight categories of MET-hours per week (0, 0.1–4.9, 5.0–9.9, 10.0–14.9, 15.0–19.9, 20.0–24.9, 25.0–29.9, and ≥30.0). Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analyses were performed.

Results
A reverse J-shaped risk curve was observed, with the lowest mortality risk in the participants exercising 4 to 5 d·wk−1 (reference). Participants who did not exercise at all and those who exercised with a PA frequency of 1 to 3 d·wk−1 or 6 to 7 d·wk−1 showed a significantly increased mortality risk compared with the reference group. When we repeated the Cox analysis among the 8 MET·h·wk−1 categories with the participants reporting 20.0 to 24.9 MET·h·wk−1 of PA as the reference group, we found that those with physical inactivity and 25.0–29.9 or ≥30.0 MET·h·wk−1 of PA showed a higher mortality risk than the reference group. These relationships were persistently observed after adjustment for confounders.

Conclusions
An appropriate amount of regular exercise in each specific type of PA was associated with the lowest risk of mortality. The inactive participants showed an increased mortality risk, and daily PA did not show any additional benefit in the mortality risk.
Acute High-Intensity Exercise Impairs Skeletal Muscle Respiratory Capacity
Authors: LAYEC GWENAEL , BLAIN GREGORY M. , ROSSMAN MATTHEW J. , PARK SONG Y. , HART COREY R. , TRINITY JOEL D. , GIFFORD JAYSON R. , SIDHU SIMRANJIT K. , WEAVIL JOSHUA C. , HUREAU THOMAS J. , AMANN MARKUS , RICHARDSON RUSSELL S. 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACT

Purpose
The effect of an acute bout of exercise, especially high-intensity exercise, on the function of mitochondrial respiratory complexes is not well understood, with potential implications for both the healthy population and patients undergoing exercise-based rehabilitation. Therefore, this study sought to comprehensively examine respiratory flux through the different complexes of the electron transport chain in skeletal muscle mitochondria before and immediately after high-intensity aerobic exercise.

Methods
Muscle biopsies of the vastus lateralis were obtained at baseline and immediately after a 5-km time trial performed on a cycle ergometer. Mitochondrial respiratory flux through the complexes of the electron transport chain was measured in permeabilized skeletal muscle fibers by high-resolution respirometry.

Results
Complex I + II state 3 (state 3CI + CII) respiration, a measure of oxidative phosphorylation capacity, was diminished immediately after the exercise (pre, 27 ± 3 ρm·mg−1·s−1; post, 17 ± 2 ρm·mg−1·s−1; P < 0.05). This decreased oxidative phosphorylation capacity was predominantly the consequence of attenuated complex II–driven state 3 (state 3CII) respiration (pre, 17 ± 1 ρm·mg−1·s−1; post, 9 ± 2 ρm·mg−1·s−1; P < 0.05). Although complex I–driven state 3 (3CI) respiration was also lower (pre, 20 ± 2 ρm·mg−1·s−1; post, 14 ± 4 ρm·mg−1·s−1), this did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.27). In contrast, citrate synthase activity, proton leak (state 2 respiration), and complex IV capacity were not significantly altered immediately after the exercise.

Conclusions
These findings reveal that acute high-intensity aerobic exercise significantly inhibits skeletal muscle state 3CII and oxidative phosphorylation capacity. This, likely transient, mitochondrial defect might amplify the exercise-induced development of fatigue and play an important role in initiating exercise-induced mitochondrial adaptations.
Effect of Unintentional Boosting on Exercise Performance in a Tetraplegic Athlete
Authors: GEE CAMERON M. , LACROIX MELISSA A. , WEST CHRISTOPHER R. 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACT
Boosting is the induction of autonomic dysreflexia (AD) to reflexively activate otherwise dormant thoracolumbar sympathetic circuitry to “boost” the capacity of the cardiovascular system and enhance exercise performance. AD is a life-threatening condition unique to individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) characterized by a sudden increase in sympathetic activity below the level of the SCI. Here we report on the temporal HR response to an episode of unintentional boosting during a validated field-based exercise performance test in an athlete with tetraplegia.
An athlete with SCI (C6 motor-complete, sensory-incomplete) completed a 20 ×20 m repeated sprint field test on two consecutive days. During the 13th sprint on day 2, the athlete unintentionally boosted via bladder overdistension. Average HR when boosted (i.e., sprints 14–20) was considerably higher than before boosting (141 ± 4 vs 116 ± 7 bpm) and compared with corresponding sprints on day 1 (141 ± 4 bpm vs 120 ± 1 bpm). Average time to complete 20 m sprints when boosted was also faster than the corresponding sprints on day 1 (6.70 ± 0.05 s vs 6.87 ± 0.05 s).
This case report highlights the immediate effect of boosting on HR and field-based exercise performance and supports the suggestion that exercise performance in athletes with SCI is limited by cardiovascular capacity.
Leucine Metabolites Do Not Enhance Training-induced Performance or Muscle Thickness
Authors: TEIXEIRA FILIPE J. , MATIAS CATARINA N. , MONTEIRO CRISTINA P. , VALAMATOS MARIA J. , REIS JOANA F. , TAVARES FRANCISCO , BATISTA ANA , DOMINGOS CHRISTOPHE , ALVES FRANCISCO , SARDINHA LUÍS B. , PHILLIPS STUART M. 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACT
Leucine metabolites, α-hydroxyisocaproic acid (α-HICA) and β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (calcium, HMB-Ca and free acid, HMB-FA), have been proposed to augment resistance training-induced changes in body composition and performance.

Purpose
We aimed to conduct a double-blind randomized controlled pragmatic trial to evaluate the effects of off-the-shelf leucine metabolite supplements of α-HICA, HMB-FA, and HMB-Ca on resistance training-induced changes in muscle thickness and performance.

Methods
Forty men were randomly assigned to receive α-HICA (n = 10, fat-free mass [FFM] = 62.0 ± 7.1 kg), HMB-FA (n = 11, FFM = 62.7 ± 10.5 kg), HMB-Ca (n = 9, FFM = 65.6 ± 10.1 kg), or placebo (PLA; n = 10, FFM = 64.2 ± 5.7 kg). The training program consisted of whole body thrice weekly resistance training for 8 wk (seven exercises per session, three to four sets per session, at 70%–80% one repetition maximum). Skeletal muscle thickness by ultrasound, performance measures, and blood measures (creatine kinase, insulin-like growth factor 1, growth hormone, cortisol, and total testosterone) were evaluated at baseline and at the end of weeks 4 and 8.

Results
Time-dependent changes were observed for muscle thickness (P < 0.001), one repetition maximum bench press and squat (P < 0.001), Wingate peak power (P = 0.02), countermovement jump height (P = 0.03), power (P = 0.006), creatine kinase, insulin-like growth factor-1, growth hormone, and cortisol (all P < 0.001). No significant between-group or time–group interactions were observed.

Conclusions
No leucine metabolite resulted in any ergogenic effects on any outcome variable. Supplementation with leucine metabolites—α-HICA, HMB-FA, or HMB-Ca—is not a supplementation strategy that improves muscle growth and strength development in young adult men.