What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style
What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style
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Szpilka, Jan
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2025-08-11
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Australian Feminist Studies
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‘Puppygirls’ is a name for a particular kinky trans feminine lesbian style, rooted in the long history of trans erotic productions, and currently thriving on social media platforms, such as Twitter (now X), Bluesky, or Discord. In this article, I provide an analysis of the style that is rooted in personal immersion in ‘puppygirl culture’. Using several examples of puppygirl media productions, I argue for the possibility of reading the puppygirl style as a critical practice: one that hints at ways of being trans that do rely on the ciscentric understanding of ‘the human’ as their point of reference. In doing so, I show how puppygirl style resonates with theoretical interventions in the field of trans studies offered by scholars such as Susan Stryker and Talia Mae Bettcher.
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Trans femininity
BDSM
puppygirls
puppy play
transgender
monstrosity
BDSM
puppygirls
puppy play
transgender
monstrosity
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Transkobiecość i sadomasochizm/BDSM. Związki i napięca w polu produkcji płci
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