... struggles queer studies Valerie Solanas It's only comrades and friends that can yell at each other like this. —Nikita Khrushchev, The Death of Stalin “Let's face it,” writes provocateur Andrea Long Chu in a recent, much-circulated essay in TSQ , “trans studies is over.” And just to make...

... Freud and Valerie Solanas being received as innovative suggested to me a widespread ignorance of trans theory's history. And more specifically, it suggested the cyclical processes and painful dissonances that the meeting of higher education and gender dysphoria reliably produces. Worse still, Chu's...