Gender, Queerness, and Trans Experience
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Gender as Enigmatic Message
Overview
A sustained line of work examining transgender experience, queer subjectivity, and gender as enigmatic message — primarily through Laplanche, Ferenczi, and Saketopoulou. This line runs through both academic writing and creative practice, and is deeply intertwined with the Chinese Subjectivity line: several papers investigate queerness specifically within the Chinese context.
Publications
Published
- published Roughton Award runner-up 2025 Qiao, X. (2026). Becoming Myself: Transgender Authentic Selfhood in the Chinese Context and Transgender Self-Experience. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 47(5). DOI
- published ICPLA LGBTQ+ Essay Award 2025 Qiao, X. (2025). From Silence to Song: True Self-Emergence Through Creative Mourning. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 26(4), 318–330. DOI
Forthcoming
- forthcoming LGBTQ+ Outstanding Trainee Paper 2026 Qiao, X. Ghostly Persistence: Disavowal, Remainder, and the Indigestible Queer Subject in China. Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health. → Chinese
In Progress
- in progress Coming Out as Translational Rupture: Refusal, Separation, and the Queer Subject in China → Chinese
- in progress Existence Tax: Transgender Non-Existence as Structural Condition (APSA Roughton Award 2026 submission) → Clinical
Awards
- award 2026 Outstanding Trainee Paper Award, Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health — Ghostly Persistence
- award 2025 Ralph Roughton Paper Award (Runner-up), APsaA Committee on Gender & Sexuality — Becoming Myself
- award 2025 Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQ+ Essay Award, ICPLA — From Silence to Song
Presentations
- 2026 Cisteria! A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics. Pre-Conference Workshop, Division 39 Spring Meeting
- 2021 Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Transgender Experience. Queer China UK