No future: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, twenty years later
Abstract
The movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch constitutes a relevant resource in the present turning point, linked to a reactionary reactivation of essentialist argumentation surrounding gender identity. Revisiting the history of trans representation in non-stigmatising terms is an imperative task in order to debate such shift. In the present text I examine the figure of Hedwig in relation to the notion of sinthomosexuality as presented by Lee Edelman, in his work No Future. I also appeal to tools such as the lacanian sexuation formulae, Gayle Rubin’s charmed circle, and previous opposing readings regarding Hedwig’s subjectivity and embodiment.
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