BOOK DATA Avery Dame-Griff, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet. New York: New York University Press. 2023. $30.00 paper. 265 pages.
As the Internet-connected computer grew in ubiquity across the United States throughout the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal capitalism developed new ways of incorporating newly visible forms of difference into a profit-making apparatus, transforming identity into classifiable data. At the same time, the various and wide-reaching representations of gender and sexuality made possible by digital-media technologies and distribution platforms also encouraged radically new forms of self-fashioning, online communication, and community building for marginalized users on the Internet. In The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet, Avery Dame-Griff thoroughly explores this complex nexus of possibility and limitation across the history of the Internet and the history of the transgender user online, constructing a detailed media archeology at the overlooked intersections of these two contemporary...
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