What is it about?

This article looks at animal drag in MTV's Jackass and Wildboyz -- moments when the performers act or dress like animals. For example, performer Steve-O inserts a fish hook into his face and is thrown overboard from a ship. I show how Jackass and Wildboyz therefore ask audiences to feel for the performers as both humans and animals.

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Why is it important?

This article brings together cutting-edge work in transgender studies, affect studies, animal studies, and the environmental humanities to develop a new concept of cross-species and cross-body feeling. It sheds new light on MTV's Jackass, a long-running and lucrative media phenomenon.

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I have been working to bring transgender studies and the environmental humanities into conversation with one another. This article complements two forthcoming articles, "Trans Ecology and the Transgender Road Narrative" (Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism) and "Transgender Environments" (Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Environment).

Nicole Seymour
California State University Fullerton

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This page is a summary of: Alligator Earrings and the Fishhook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag, TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly, January 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/23289252-2867561.
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