Trans Studies

YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL is a professor of Latino studies and comparative literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of several books including From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context.  SARAH TOBIAS is the associate director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, where she serves as affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous publications, including the book Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families.

"A valuable contribution to the field … Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read." (Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy) Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) (Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)) "This welcome new anthology brings into sharp focus one of the most productive contributions the field of trans studies has made to scholarship on sexuality and gender: revealing the extent to which dominant, naturalized constructions of the relationship between sexed embodiment and gendered subjectivity traverse not only the heteronormative world, but also much of feminism, queer theory, and other fields that study the creation of social hierarchy from bodily difference. Addressing such diverse topics as educational activism, policy reform, surveillance technologies, cinema, theater, narrative arts, migration, and social movements, Trans Studies ably demonstrates that the field it surveys has indeed arrived as an important new lens for understanding, interpreting and appreciating a wide range of human diversities." - Susan Stryker (coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader v. 1 & 2 and Co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly) "A vital addition to the field of trans studies. MartÍnez-San Miguel and Tobias have curated a collection of rich new scholarship located in the spaces between trans, feminist, and queer studies." - Paisley Currah (coeditor of Transgender Rights and co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly) "Trans Studies brings together some of the most challenging and compelling recent work in the field of transgender studies. The collection includes voices from inside and outside the academy, and it makes activists' contributions central. The fact of this diversity makes the project extremely vibrant: it will have a broad appeal across disciplines and for activists and community members as well."- Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction      Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities             Yolanda MartÍnez-San Miguel and Sarah TobiasPart I                 Gender Boundaries within Educational SpacesChapter 1         Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus             Genny Beemyn and Susan R. RankinChapter 2        Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education             Pauline ParkPart II                 Trans ImaginariesChapter 3         “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change             Lucas CrawfordChapter 4         Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican             Keja ValensChapter 5         TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy             Jian ChenPart III                 Crossing Borders/Crossing GenderChapter 6         When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics             Toby BeauchampChapter 7         Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival             Nora Butler BurkeChapter 8         Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression             Aren Z. AizuraPart IV                Trans Activism and PolicyChapter 9         The “T” in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)?             Mickael Chacha EnriquezChapter 10       Translatina Is About the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco             Alexandra RodrÍguez de RuÍz and Marcia OchoaChapter 11       LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy             Jody L. HermanPart V                Transforming Disciplines and PedagogyChapter 12      Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes             Sel J. HwahngChapter 13      Stick Figures and Pronouns: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy             A. Finn EnkeConclusion      Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination             Yolanda MartÍnez-San Miguel and Sarah TobiasNotes on Contributors             Index