
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 Access, 2024
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