This open-call nonthemed issue, TSQ 11, issue 3, features an exciting collection of essays that represent the stellar work being done in the field that are not indexed by the themed issues selected by the editorial board for this volume year. The essays in this general issue offer new insights into the field of trans studies through multiple sites of inquiry and approaches. Featured are authors whose work engages topics withing trans literary studies, gay studies, psychoanalysis, embodied spirituality and activism, and life history as method.
This issue leads with Gabriel Ojeda-Segué’s essay, “Lou's Men: Sameness, Leo Bersani, and the Legacy of Lou Sullivan.” This study will become one in a constellation of essays that will be indispensable for making sense of Lou Sullivan's complexity as a trans figure, t4t desire, and Sullivan's own contributions to trans history. Ojeda-Sagué’s approach examines Sullivan's personal writings as an erotic theoretical project, much...
