... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The term x-jendā began appearing in the late 1990s in publications as well as in independently produced documentaries created by and featuring transgender...

... Guimaraes García. “Trans Studies en las Américas” does not aim to be exhaustive or fully representative of Latin/x American trans studies. These articles represent a modest selection of the powerful work being done in the field, and this special issue portrays just one iteration among a multitude...

...Chris Hall Abstract This essay responds to and expands the concept of the X for trans studies, theorized by Marquis Bey, as a graphic tool for thinking the intersection of gender, race, law, and crime. In doing so, the essay reads Howard Hawks's 1932 film Scarface , a work crossed throughout...

... the changes to the passport and those to the prison. On the one hand, Citizenship Canada announced that “people who do not identify as female (‘F’) or male (‘M’)” could change their passport sex to be an X . On the other hand, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) begrudgingly introduced Interim Policy...

... categories, “X” category passports, the suppression of gender markers, and wider debates about the removal and necessity of sex/gender identifiers on documents and their impact. The asylum process in South Africa, as reported by myriad organizations and international bodies, is by no means easy...

... scholarship finds its home in trans studies, Latina/o/x studies, and Chicana/o/x studies, so serving as the overseeing general coeditor for this issue felt especially serendipitous. As noted by Cole Rizki in the special issue introduction, this issue of TSQ was born out of a series of panels...

....” In December of 1948 Ebony ran a story called “What I Told Kinsey about My Sex Life” by a sociologist pseudonymously named “Mary X.” “My sex life now belongs to science,” she begins. The image that ran opposite the title captures Kinsey and Mary X, photographed by African American freelance magazine...

... of Chiapas. A dear friend and colleague who is a photographer did a photo shoot with me at home for Fotoperformance decolonial X.1: Transgresiones transfeministas desde Abya Yala con amor ( Decolonial Photoperformance X.1: Transfeminist Transgressions from Abya Yala, with Love ) in which I explored...

... might” (27). My replacement of the insidious, grammatically masculine o with the gender-neutral (or inclusive) x not only destabilizes the cisgender subjectivity ascribed to translator , by revealing the genderqueer identity of the translatxr, but also alludes to the practice of replacing...

...-known instance of this type of epistemic insubordination is the term cochón/a/x in Nicaragua. As Elyla Sinvergüenza explains, “Cochón, cochona, or cochonx is used to refer to people assigned male at birth, but whose identity and/or gender expression does not follow the traditional norms of masculinity...

... mantra “This is my voice X weeks on T” and how that feels like an exciting incantation, a kind of willing the body to change through both voice and documentation. There's a Ted Talk by trans, Jewish artist Chella Man in which he strings his videos together so the phrase “This is my voice X weeks on T...

... on cultural translation might foreground “the relationalities and attachments that different analytical categories have as they travel [that] will greatly influence their ability to translate” (21). This is particularly important with concepts such as gender, sexuality, and race. As Neferti X. M. Tadiar...

... Pride Parade. Miss X, one of Doris's regular collaborators, recalls: The artwork (pastel chalks on construction paper) might as well be called Artists United in Drag , although I don't believe I ever heard Doris refer to it that way. Left to right there's “Tippi,” Willard Walsh, Doris Fish, Ginger...

... on their hands but would still like to be a part of these conversations. Martín goes a step further by providing a manual at the end with prompts that promote the speaking of Spanish in a more inclusive manner. Although -@ , -x , and -e endings have been the center of conversation, the author provides us...

...) that are rigidly maintained in Chicano studies as well as in Chicana literature and cultural production. In regard to terminology, Cuevas takes up the very debated use of the x in Chicanx and Latinx . Cuevas's use of the x in Chicanx and Latinx is a way to “unsettle the gender binary bound up in terms...

... presidents, they age poorly. And more than that, the judgment-laden polemics about the end of everything make for poor theory and leave only scorched earth in their wake. I personally appreciate a good polemic, and I have made my own disciplinary critiques, but, be that as it may, I am not fond of the “X...

.... Their fictionalized portraits include composite prisoners as well, like D X, a transgender man who in the 2010s was imprisoned for the crime of “rape by deception” for not revealing his gender status. The viewers' interaction with their narrative storylines work to expose the outer limits of cultural norms...

... attention to the ways mainstream LGBT activists and organizations rely on participation in state surveillance as a way to construct “legitimate” citizenship. In subsequent chapters, Beauchamp situates airport X-ray scanners, so-called bathroom bills, and the imprisonment and subsequent trial of Chelsea...