Trans Studies Historical Context Decolonial Feminism +2 Before We Were Trans Kit Heyam (2022) Kit Heyam offers a global history of gender diversity that refuses to force past lives into modern Western categories. Read More →
Trans Studies Queer Theory Historical Context +2 Female Husbands Jen Manion (2020) Jen Manion reconstructs the history of people assigned female who lived as men and married women in Britain and the United States. Read More →
Trans Feminism Black Feminism Race and Gender +2 Black on Both Sides C. Riley Snorton (2017) C. Riley Snorton traces the racial history of trans identity by connecting slavery, medicine, fugitivity, archives, and Black trans life. Read More →
Trans Studies Social Movements Historical Context +2 Transgender History Susan Stryker (2017) Susan Stryker offers a concise history of transgender movements in the United States from mid-twentieth-century organizing to contemporary politics. Read More →
Trans Feminism Media Representation Critique Queer Theory +2 Trap Door Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (2017) This anthology examines the paradoxes of trans visibility in art, museums, media, performance, and cultural production. Read More →
Trans Studies Intersectional Feminism Queer Theory +2 The Transgender Studies Reader 2 Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura (2013) This second reader documents the expansion of transgender studies into race, disability, migration, postcolonial critique, embodiment, and media. Read More →