What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic and historical canons in the construction of the female and male genders? Is ‘the sleeping Hermaphrodite’ really asleep? Or has she/he been induced to a long lethargic state, punished and confined by the history of gender normalization?

CONTENTS

My Trans Body is an Empty House
by Paul B. Preciado

Touching the Difference
by Juan Duque

The Sleeping Hermaphroditus
by Juan Duque

Hermaphroditos Anasyromenos
by Nicolas Lakiotakis

Swimming with Myths
by Sofia Grigoriadou

Queer Anticipation:
I Greet You,
Dionysus and Athena
by Denis Maksimov-Gupta

The Transformation of Hermaphrodite
by Juan Duque