Gender Ambiguity In Testo Junk

Introduction In Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, Beatriz Preciado uses their body and their body of work as a means of transing theory. Put another way, B.P. uses a genre bending approach to writing theory to attempt to articulate the lived experience of gender ambiguity. B.P. challenges normative conceptions and understandings of bodies, theory, and modes of production in an attempt to explain the queer body. To do so, B.P. employs the radical approach of simultaneously queering oneself and queering theory. B.P’s physical transformation, as a result of taking testosterone, is always in tandem with the intellectual transformation of the theoretical frameworks available to explain identity. A framework does not yet exist to articulate Preciado’s experiences; as such Testo Junkie is an effort to develop a new one. This is necessary because theory is how we give meaning to ourselves; it is how we explain ourselves to ourselves. Testo Junkie is the generative response to the question, what do we do when we have no categories that correspond to our lived experiences of gender and sexuality?
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Testo Junkie is a collaborative and collective adventure of one’s body and political fiction. Preciado challenges dominant representations of sexuality, desire, orientation, gender, attraction and identity, and uses hir own body to navigate each framework. B.P. uses self-experimentation to create a new form of knowledge production. This is necessary because there is not yet a framework of knowledge that coincides to B.P.’s