The Subject of Trans Lives and Vitalities: Queer and Trans Anthropological Object-Making Available to Purchase

This chapter explores one potential new direction—trans vitalities—that queer and trans anthropological inquiry might take toward meaningfully addressing inequities within and across trans communities of practice. Trans vitalities is a model that requires the researcher deprioritize their own interests or evaluations by asking and identifying (1) how “queer” and “LGBT” frameworks work to erase trans lived experiences; (2) what meaningful or quality life trans lived experience is assumed to look like; and (3) why frameworks like trans vitalities are needed to offer necessarily messy toolkits toward addressing the necessarily messy features of life.