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Trans Rights

Date Updated: 1/31/2025

The selections in our Trans Rights reading list address trans rights and politics on a global scale. Topics include black trans feminisms, coalitional models of social justice, surgery, disability, surveillance, and more.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.



BOOK

When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader

Susan Stryker with McKenzie Wark
2024


BOOK

Feminism against Cisness

Emma Heaney
2024


JOURNAL

QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

Joseph A. Marchal and Melissa M. Wilcox
Open Access2024


JOURNAL ARTICLE

No Bodies Business: Trapdoor Tactics and the Art of Transgender Disappearance in A Fantastic Woman

Curran Nault
Camera Obscura 115, 2024


BOOK

How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University

Perry Zurn
2024


JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Atmosphere of Trans* Politics in the Global North and West

Yv E. Nay
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:1, 2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Is Transmisogyny Killing Trans Women of Color?: Black Trans Feminisms and the Exigencies of White Femininity

Elías Cosenza Krell
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4:2, 2017


BOOK

Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

Eric A. Stanley
2021


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Certificates of Live Birth and Dead Names: On the Subject of Recent Anti-Trans Legislation

Amanda Armstrong
South Atlantic Quarterly 116:3, 2017


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Antitrans State Terrorism: Trans and Travesti Women, Human Rights, and Recent History in Chile

Hillary Hiner, Juan Carlos Garrido, and Brigette Walters
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:2, 2019


BOOK

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade
2015


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Why We Forget the Pulse Nightclub Murders: Bodies That (Never) Matter and a Call for Coalitional Models of Queer and Trans Social Justice

Elijah Adiv Edelman
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 24:1, 2018


BOOK

The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine

Eric Plemons
2017


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Surgical Subjects and the Right to Transgender Health in Brazil

Joshua Franklin
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 5:2, 2018


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled

Jasbir K. Puar
Social Text 124, 2015


BOOK

Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

Toby Beauchamp
2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Radical Inclusion: Recounting the Trans Inclusive History of Radical Feminism

Cristan Williams
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 3:1–2, 2016


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Performing Piety in Pakistan’s Transgender Rights Movement

Claire Pamment
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6:3, 2019


BOOK

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World

Asli Zengin
2024


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Differences in All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Non-Transgender People Enrolled in Private Insurance

Landon D. Hughes, Wesley M. King, Kristi E. Gamarel, Arline T. Geronimus, Orestis A. Panagiotou, and Jaclyn M.W. Hughto
Demography 59:3, 2022


JOURNAL SECTION

Queer Battle Fatigue in Classrooms and Communities

Boni Wozolek, Cris Mayo, Walter S. Gershon, Mario I. Suárez, Kaila Adia Story, Melissa M. González, sj Miller, Ryan Patrick Murphy, Laurie Fuller, Erica R. Meiners, Silvia C. Bettez, Roland Sintos Coloma, Hilton Kelly, and Nicole Butterfield
GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, 2020

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