Podcast Feature: Cisteria! on Rendering Unconscious
I recently had the pleasure of joining my co-editor and co-conspirator, Jess Joseph, on the Rendering Unconscious podcast to talk about our special issue of Studies in Gender & Sexuality: “Cisteria!: A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics.” I always love having an opportunity to be in conversation with our host, Vanessa Sinclair, on her iconic channel that is bringing diverse psychoanalytic thought to the masses.
🧐 Listen here:
https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru385-tobias-wiggins-and-jess-joseph
What is Cisteria?
“Cisteria!” is a ⭐️very special⭐️ special issue that brings together twelve trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive contributors—artists, clinicians, scholars, and writers working across multiple geographies—to theorize what we’re calling cisteria. An unfaithful recalibration of the psychoanalytic concept “hysteria,” we aim to open multiple psychical venues into better conceptualize and challenge anti-trans moral panics.
Across the issue, contributors take up its premises through a wide range of forms:
analytic essays
poetry and artwork
music and speculative theory
collage, crossword puzzles, and various irreverent interventions
The project also refuses the narrow boundaries of what psychoanalytic writing is supposed to look like.
📣 Read the full issue (and contact me for copies if paywall is an issue):
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hsgs20/26/4
📣 Read our introduction:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15240657.2025.2599019
Upcoming (Free) Event
We’ll also be continuing this conversation in an upcoming workshop at the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Division 39 annual spring meeting. It’s on zoom and you can sign up online, just register under “pre-conference workshop only.”
Cisteria! A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics
April 22, 9:00am – 12:00pm EST
Online (Zoom) · Free
❤️🔥 Register here:
