To address the absence of Black trans children from her work, the historian Jules Gill-Peterson cited Robert Reid-Pharr’s work on these entities “of the flesh,” à la Hortense Spillers. For 10 points each:
[10h] A Jacques Derrida book studies the death drive’s relation to what hypomnesic (“hype-om-NEE-sick”) entities? The “grain” of these entities in colonial history was studied by Ann Laura Stoler.
ANSWER: the archive [accept archives of the flesh; accept Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression or Mal d’Archive: Une Impression Freudienne; accept Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense] (Jules Gill-Peterson wrote Histories of the Trangender Child.)
[10e] In Jamey Jesperson’s examination of the colonial archive, she reads a sketch of two xochihuaque (“sho-chee-WAH-kay”) in this text as a depiction of two trans people. This 16th-century Nahua codex commissioned by Bernardino de Sahagún is named for the European city that houses it.
ANSWER: Florentine Codex [or Códice Florentino; accept The General History of the Things of New Spain or La Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España]
[10m] Searches for trans subjects in the archive have drawn attention to a Lebanese man named Marinos, who had this profession. John Climacus and Pachomius condemned gay relationships between members of this profession.
ANSWER: monks [or monastics; accept cenobites or religious brothers; accept Marinos the Monk; prompt on hermits or saints] (John Climacus wrote, and is named after, The Ladder of Divine Ascent or Climax Paradisi.)
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