This paper is an examination of identity narratives of a small group of trans-national transpeople in Australia. We reveal the complex identity journey undertaken by this group. Transpeople of Sub-continental origin consume a temporarily transformational journey negotiating, resisting and subverting the dominant discourses that construct heterosexuality, gayness, whiteness and femininity. They carve out temporary liminal spaces of resistance within which to perform as “weekend women.” We identify transforming, transitioning, transcending across gender and ethnic boundaries, and see being enabled by specific transnational consumption imaginaries in liminal spaces meshed by intersectional of race/ethnicity and gender. We follow intertwined discourses that forms a “matrix of domination” and the way liminal thirdspaces create temporarily decolonized spaces that enable them to escape this matrix and perform a (trans)formative, movement back and forth between their weekday/weekend differently gendered/cultured selves. Ultimately, these decolonized thirdspaces bring only temporary release with inevitable return to their weekday male identity.

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阈限（跨）形成空间：暂时摆脱交叉性

本文是对澳大利亚一小群跨国跨性别者身份叙述的考察。我们揭示了这个群体所经历的复杂身份之旅。起源于次大陆的跨性别者经历了一段暂时的转变之旅，与构成异性恋、同性恋、白人和女性气质的主流话语进行谈判、抵制和颠覆。她们开辟出临时的抵抗空间，在其中扮演“周末女性”的角色。我们识别跨越性别和种族界限的转变、过渡和超越，并看到在由种族/民族和性别的交集所交织的阈限空间中特定的跨国消费想象能够实现。我们遵循形成“统治矩阵”的相互交织的话语，以及阈限第三空间创造暂时去殖民化空间的方式，使他们能够逃离这个矩阵，并在他们工作日/周末不同性别/文化的自我之间来回进行（转换）形成性运动. 最终，这些非殖民化的第三空间只能带来暂时的释放，不可避免地会回归到他们工作日的男性身份。