Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body

Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult yet occasionally loving world. With personal essays about the fetishization of trans bodies, recovering from surgery, and losing hope, Florence's collection celebrates the queer messiness of sex and identity.Through the embrace of its raw and lyrical prose, Gender/Fucking invites the reader into the intimate world of academic smut to ask what it means to be horny on main in a sex-negative world--and what power it might hold.


Publisher: Clash Books
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781955904933

About the Author
Florence Ashley is a transfeminine, transdisciplinary French-Canadian scholar and activist from Tiohti: áke, also known as Montreal. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in law and bioethics at the University of Toronto. Prior to their doctoral studies, they served as the first openly transfeminine law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. Their academic and opinion essays are widely published, having appeared in outlets such as The Advocate, The Globe & Mail, Huffington Post, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.