...Julian Kevon Glover This article investigates sex work among Black transgender women in Chicago’s ballroom scene, drawing on ethnographic data to argue that Black transwomen engage in sex work as a practice of self-investment undergirded by an epistemological shift regarding the centrality...

...Joel Sanders; Susan Stryker A long-simmering moral panic over the presence of transgender people in sex-segregated public toilets has reached an acute state since the spring of 2015, as an unprecedented wave of mass-culture visibility for trans* issues has intersected with recent court decisions...

...Aren Aizura © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 References Aizura Aren . 2011 . “The Persistence of Transsexual Travel Narratives.” In Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition , edited by Cotton Trystan , 139 – 56 . New York : Routledge...

...Jake Pyne The desire for transgender futures has grown exponentially in recent years, but many of these futures are traps, concealing a demand to assume normative and neoliberal priorities in exchange for citizenship and belonging. This article argues that some of these traps might be undone...

...Huey Hewitt This brief essay reflects on the conjunctional histories of anti‐black and anti‐trans criminalization in the context of the contemporary moral panic aimed at eradicating transgender life. Within the last couple of years, conservatives have introduced and (and sometimes passed...

... to transgender people their outsiderness and difference. Such discrimination is difficult to remedy because the topic of toilets makes many people embarrassed and uncomfortable, and human waste, especially feces, engenders strong feelings of disgust. Thinking through and implementing adequate toilet provision...

... Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Aren Aizura is Associate Professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. His first book, Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment (2018), won the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender...

...Nat Raha The affects of transfeminine life and their relationship to the material conditions undergirding such life are undertheorized in transgender studies and queer studies. This creative and critical essay conceptualizes transfeminine brokenness through negative experiences and emotions...

... . Chowdhry Prem . 1994 . The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana 1880–1990 . New Delhi : Oxford University Press . CLPR (Centre for Law and Policy Research) . 2018 . “ Policy Brief: Making Rights Real Implementing Reservations for Transgender & Intersex Persons...

... and self‐determining is a viable alternative. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 transgender feminism care labor liberalism In 1999, a small circulation newsletter called Your SOFFA Voice began quarterly publication. SOFFA is an umbrella term...

...Eric A. Stanley This essay opens with a reading of a closed-circuit television scene of Duanna Johnson, a black transgender woman who was brutally beaten by Mississippi police while in their custody in 2009. Through this video, I center the question of representation's form, not just its content...

...Alison Kafer This essay explores the politics of “hovering” in public restrooms, or the practice of refusing to sit on public toilets. How do such practices reveal a fundamental disregard for others? Drawing on transgender and disability studies, I trace the effects of such practices...

..., caste, and disability, and it is today the target of activists demanding justice for many, including women and poor, disabled, queer, and transgender people. There is clearly much political work to do on all these intersecting fronts. There is also a pressing need for scholarly studies...

... . . . transsexual/ transgendered people . . . and sexual dissidents of various . . . descrip- tions. Even more complex challenges to the coherentist assumptions about identity politics emerge when attention focuses on the ques- tion of the merger, exile, coalition, and secession...

... Secrets: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai was published in 2014 by Duke University Press. Their second monograph, Dissent in Queer Times (forthcoming), is an ethnography of queer and transgender movements in India that emerged in the wake of autonomous feminist, civil liberties...

... . “ Decolonizing Transgender in India: Some Reflections .” TSQ 1 , no. 3 : 320 – 27 . Ferber Marianne A. Nelson Julie , eds. 1993 . Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Ghosh Jayati Chandrasekhar C. P. Patnaik Prabhat...

... suspicion of transgender authenticity. But the gender essentialism that underwrote Morgan's premise provided the foundation for wide-ranging policing of everything from gender expression to sexual practice and that also, Mackay continues, “singled out butch lesbians” (2021: 55) as dupes of internalized...

... and within Latin America, as well as movement of transgender workers along the Indo-Nepal-Bangladesh borders. I conceptualize racialized capitalism through longer histories of Indian Ocean trade, and the ways in which present-day capital and labor circulates across urban centers across Asia, Latin America...

... as transgender theory and transgender politics. Among other recent works on this topic, see Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come (New York, 1992); Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (New York, 1994); and Gordene Olga Mackenzie, Transgender Nation...

... is not ascertaining the veracity of Doležal's claims or that of any other potentially transracial person's” (4). 8 To make matters worse for the critic tasked with “sitting with,” Doležal offers this insistence after what many commentators take as a false and harmful analogy: “Just as a transgender person...