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About this book
CE Mackenzie's Achy Affects is a trans-genre memoir that boldly reimagines how we care for ourselves and our communities amidst relentless cultural, political, and ecological upheavals. It feels like we're teetering on the edge of unprecedented crises. In the midst of this, as we wrestle with burnout and exhaustion, capitalism demands we push harder, achieve more, and become better. Mackenzie offers a radical alternative: give up the goal and just feel.
Organized into four key emotionsāwonder, shame, shyness, and nostalgia, with a final meditation on ache itselfāAchy Affects confronts the simplistic idea that feelings are either "positive" or "negative." This tired binary demands we rehabilitate the bad into the good, whether or not this rehab is ethical, or even desirable. Instead, by tuning into the feeling of ache, we can resist these pressures and reclaim our agency through compositions of our own making.
In the spirit of public intellectuals like Maggie Nelson and Julietta Singh, Mackenzie weaves their personal experiences of crisisādivorce and coming out, working in drug outreach, top surgery, new parenthood, and traversing the Alaskan tundraāinto a nuanced exploration of ache. Through this lens, Mackenzie invites us to live alongside pain, not as something to be fixed, but as something to be understood without judgment or expectation.
Organized into four key emotionsāwonder, shame, shyness, and nostalgia, with a final meditation on ache itselfāAchy Affects confronts the simplistic idea that feelings are either "positive" or "negative." This tired binary demands we rehabilitate the bad into the good, whether or not this rehab is ethical, or even desirable. Instead, by tuning into the feeling of ache, we can resist these pressures and reclaim our agency through compositions of our own making.
In the spirit of public intellectuals like Maggie Nelson and Julietta Singh, Mackenzie weaves their personal experiences of crisisādivorce and coming out, working in drug outreach, top surgery, new parenthood, and traversing the Alaskan tundraāinto a nuanced exploration of ache. Through this lens, Mackenzie invites us to live alongside pain, not as something to be fixed, but as something to be understood without judgment or expectation.
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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh PressYear
2025eBook ISBN
9780822992004Subtopic
LGBT StudiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Healthy Markets: Tracing Capital through Histories and Compositions of Wellness
- 1. Wonder Drug: Syringe Programs as Sites of Care, Connection, and Renewal
- 2. The Spectacle of Shame: Resisting Cure in Crisis
- 3. Painfully Shy: Trans Feeling and Quiet Refusals
- 4. Nostalgic Potential: The Mixtape Is an Archive, and the Archive Is a Feeling Thing
- 5. Wild Ache: Composing in Crisis
- Conclusion: Loving the Questions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author