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Policy on General Open-Call Issues

At this time, TSQ is not actively reviewing submissions for general, open-call issues. The next scheduled open-call general CFP will be for Volume 13. Therefore, the next general issue submission deadline will not be until mid-late 2025.

Over the past two decades, transgender studies has become fertile ground for new approaches to cultural analysis. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. Its mission is to foster a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists, and others that examines how "transgender" comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.

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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 12.2: Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory

Guest editors: J. Logan Smilges & Slava Greenberg

In his provocative meditation on the impasse between trans and disability politics in Brilliant Imperfection (2017), Eli Clare calls for a “messier story.” Since then, several scholars working in trans studies and disability studies, including Cassius Adair (2022), Cameron Awkward-Rich (2022), Alexandre Baril (2020, 2023), PJ DiPietro (2020), Sarah Cavar (2021), Slava Greenberg (2020, 2023a, 2023b), V. Jo Hsu (2022a, 2022b), Ada Hubrig (2022), Jasbir Puar (2017), and J. Logan Smilges (2022, 2023a, 2023b), among others, have taken up Claire’s call with attempts to deepen, historicize, or further complicate the conversations tethering both fields. The purpose of this special issue is to galvanize an emerging body of work at the intersection of trans and disability studies as part of a larger disciplinary critique issued by Kadji Amin (2023). His critique shifts focus away from trans subjects toward the “material heterogeneity of trans populations, histories, and epistemologies.” Such trans objects, including disabled, crip, and Mad ways of gendering, are not always legible to the extant corpus of trans studies, and this special issue seeks to make visible the structures of power that have slowed the field from engaging them as and alongside more readily recognizable transgender formations.

The relationship between trans studies and disability studies, we hold, is one marked by suspicion and trepidation, despite a growing number of scholars actively working to bridge the two fields. Similar to disability scholar Alison Kafer’s commentary on the relationship between queer studies and disability studies (2013), it is worth making plain that trans studies, in one way, has “so clearly approached the terrain of disability studies” while, in another way, has by and large refused to name “that closeness.” It is a relationship that, as Awkward-Rich (2022) explains, was generated by “a particular set of rhetorical moves that have since been taken for granted” in trans studies that disavow any “pathologizing discourse about trans lives.” Rather than scold the field for this disavowal, we instead urge a genealogical investigation that addresses the origins of tension between trans and disability as social and political categories, so we might better name and respond to the ableism that has seeped into trans studies’ intellectual project. We acknowledge that this call must be taken up alongside a parallel call in disability studies that derides the cissexism and transphobia haunting some corners of the field. Together, these calls move us beyond superficial gestures of inclusivity toward a demand for mutual accountability. Taking a lead from disability justice activist Mia Mingus, we believe that access without reconciliation–whether to a room, building, or field–is not access worth having.

This issue adopts the phrase “trans[]crip” to name the dynamic proximity between trans and disability. The pair of square brackets, which are customarily used to enclose editorial additions or modifications in quoted text, are left blank as an invitation. Instead of using them to indicate alternatives or corrections, we offer the space between them as a placeholder for what could become a binding -, a wall |, a binary /, a special usage *, some combination, or none of these. The brackets avoid likening “crip” to a consumable object for trans studies, and they leave room for people who might find it beneficial to note the categories’ divergences. We are inspired by Two Spirit and trans-of-color critics who name modes of gender variance beyond the category of transgender, even as they reveal the colonial and racial logics that imbricate transnormativity (Gill-Peterson 2018, Pierce 2020, Snorton and Haritaworn 2013). In this vein and with acknowledgement of the colonial and racial politics informing the pathologization of gender variance, we intend trans[]crip to illustrate distinct political and intellectual movements that are nevertheless entwined at the level of the bodymind. It is the case, for example, that many trans and disabled people experience chronic pain and the sensation of phantom body parts. Many use prosthetics. Many depend on diagnosis to access life-giving care. Many face elevated risks of incarceration, homelessness, state and domestic violence, and medical malpractice. As Smilges has recently suggested (2023), the abled norms that limn normative gender, alongside the cis norms that subtend ideologies of health and ability, ensure a felt kinship between trans and disabled people in the way our bodies rhetorically signify. And as Greenberg shows in a forthcoming book about gender dysphoria, the segregation between trans, Crip, and Mad communities, histories, and movements only serves to perpetuate fascism.

The intellectual questions the issue will address include the following: what occupies the space between trans and crip? What vectors of power condition their relationship? In what ways do their intellectual genealogies bleed or imbricate? To what extent are their liberatory and justice-oriented politics overlapping, distinct, or otherwise entangled? And how might we envision a future for trans studies that more ethically and accountably incorporates the knowledges and praxes of disabled scholars, organizers, and community members?

Submissions may include but need not be limited to the following themes:

trans disability histories
disability justice as agent in trans liberation
legacies of ableism in trans studies
trans cripistemologies
crip engagements with trans cultural production and theory
trans contestations of the foundational “models” of disability (e.g., medical, social, cultural, political-relational, critical, crip negative, etc.)
trans disability configurations beyond the language of gender and disability

We welcome submissions to “Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory” in the form of:

Research articles (up to 5,000 words);
Reviews (up to 2,000 words)—approval needed from editors before submission;
Creative works;
Visual art (300dpi or greater);
Syllabi and teaching materials.

The editors are happy to discuss topics of interest with potential contributors.

Contact:

J. Logan Smilges (logan.smilges@ubc.ca) and
Slava Greenberg (s.greenberg@uva.nl)

Please send complete submissions by May 1, 2024. To submit a manuscript, please visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-tsq. Please note that TSQ, like other Duke University Press Journals, has moved to ScholarOne, replacing the prior Editorial Manager platform. If this is your first time using ScholarOne, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. If you have any difficulties with the process, contact the journal at tsqjournal at gmail.com. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and blinded throughout. You must also submit an abstract, keywords, and biographical note at the time of initial submission. Please visit the editorial office's website for a detailed style guide.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Francisco J. Galarte, Dylan McCarthy Blackston, micha cárdenas, Ciara Cremin, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. One issue of TSQ each year is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/

Please send complete submissions by May 1, 2024.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 12.1: Speculative Media and Fiction

Guest editors: Rox Samer & Cáel M. Keegan

In 1968, author and critic Samuel R. Delany declared, “[A]ny serious discussion of speculative fiction must first get away from the distracting concept of SF content and examine precisely what sort of word-beast sits before us. We must explore both the level of subjunctivity at which speculative fiction takes place and the particular intensity and range of images this level affords.” A few years later Delany’s dear friend author and critic Joanna Russ expanded on Delany’s essay, describing this subjunctivity of speculative fiction—how it approaches what has not yet happened—as demanding an intellectual athleticism of its audience. It is not simply that readers or viewers of speculative fiction encounter creatures and worlds that do not yet exist and to which they must acclimate, but that they navigate a paradox unique to the genre--- encountering that which is neither impossible nor possible. The subjunctive experience of speculation means sliding between these two poles as we constantly compare what we know of actuality to the proposed world before us. In turn, the bizarre becomes familiar while the familiar also becomes bizarre.

Because of this unique engagement with the neither-impossible-nor-possible, speculative fiction has been a fruitful genre for artists and activists alike to imagine what could be, rather than what cannot. Speculation invites communities to envision beyond/outside the limits of the present and insist on the existence of alternate realities and worlds. In pursuing these hidden possibilities and occluded horizons, it has been imperative for trans scholars to continue to attend to the aesthetic and the affective, not simply marking our representation within the “quagmire of the present” (Muñoz) but theorizing how speculation poetically shifts (cárdenas) our given reality, inviting us to “sense transgender” (Keegan) and thereby demand new worlds. By insisting on a reality where gender and sex are no longer affixed to bodies through biological determinism or the cissexist state, transness itself is a speculative mode that renders “what does not fit present logics perceptible, even if not recognizable” (Keeling). Within trans speculation, sex and gender are made less familiar and the given world is made strange, precisely because we see more of what they already could be. In this sense, all trans elaborations are a kind of speculative fiction, “inextricably hooked into the register of the real” (Prosser).

Recent historical studies have returned to earlier feminist and queer speculative fictions and/or fandoms, including those of Delany and Russ, to make the alternative possibilities of sex and gender feel more real (Ahmed, Lothian, Samer). In this same vein, this TSQ issue seeks to encourage and support historical, theoretical, and creative work on trans speculative media and fiction at a time when it is needed most. For many of us, contemporary trans life is defined by “future fatigue,” a feeling of temporal and political dysphoria that saturates the lag time between our recognition as transgender subjects and the emergence of a society that would permit us to exist. Knowing the present may be all we get (Malatino), this TSQ issue turns to speculative media and fiction for models of T4T praxis that might sustain us during this paradoxical interregnum. In the face of those who confidently declare the cis, straight, colonial future of the nation-state the only permitted reality, we call for submissions of articles, essays, and creative works that engage with the subjunctively trans properties of speculative media, narratives, and aesthetics, including (but not limited to) studies of:

Trans-authored speculative film, literature, art, TV, games, and other media
Trans approaches to the study of speculative film, literature, art, TV, games, and other media
Trans SF fandom
Trans organizing via speculative fiction
Trans revisionist histories of SF and SF fandom
Speculative trans media theory
Trans historiographical and methodological studies by way of speculative fiction

We welcome scholarly articles 4000-7000 words in length. We also welcome shorter essays 1000-2000 words in length, poetry, artwork, short stories, scripts or script excerpts, and other creative work that fits the theme. Scholars, artists, and activists are all invited to contribute.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. For most volumes one issue of TSQ is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/

Please send complete submissions by January 10, 2024.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.4: General Open-Call

Editor: Francisco J Galarte

TSQ welcomes submissions for the General Open-call, non-themed issue in the form of:

Research articles (4,000-7,000 words)
Reviews (less than 4,000 words)—approval needed from the editor before submission;
Visual art (300dpi or greater);
Syllabi and teaching materials.
Scholars, artists, and activists are all invited to contribute.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. For most volumes one issue of TSQ is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/

Please send complete submissions by October 26, 2023.

**TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.3: Trans* Ecologies**

Guest editors: Erin L. Durban and Megan Moore

Eva Hayward (2022) inquires, “Can trans mean anything to ecology? If so, what?” The guest editors of this issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly offer Hayward’s question as an invitation to artists, activists, and scholars to consider the possibilities of combining trans* analytics and undisciplined environmental and ecological thinking. The issue follows the Queer & Trans Ecologies Symposium that took place at the University of Minnesota in spring 2023.

Ecology as a concept holds within itself many paradigms that are becoming increasingly mangled by the quality of crises emerging in this post-pandemic world. Arising out of both evolutionary theory and organicist thought, ecology came to challenge the mechanistic cosmologies of early modernists who believed there to be linear, inner logics to living forms that operated akin to machines. Yet ecology has also found itself tossed back and forth between the nature-technics divide, or the question of how the inorganic relates to the organic, as ecological thought often incorporates the inorganic within its tracing of organic systems. Thus, at the heart of ecological problems are questions of control, agency, and the power of organic (or perhaps cosmic) flows to transform life. The growth of ecology as a discipline took off in the mid-20^th century in conjunction with the field of cybernetics, both attempting to do “systems theory” and reconfigure questions of social control in the post-WWII era. Ecology’s resurgence in popularity today can be seen as connected to the technological quality of the present ecological disasters; how to relate to mass death and destruction when it spirals through systems, how to understand technological change alongside climate change, how to conjure a political “we” that has the agency to shift ecosystems. Responses to these questions arrive in the concepts of “non-natural ecologies” (Peter K. Haff), “technoecology” (Eric Hörl), and “cosmotechnics” (Yuk Hui) that attempt different versions of re-conceptualizing the problems imparted by the nature-technics divide via non-modern ontologies. While this literature finds itself converging with feminist thought in its exploration of non-rationalist “relations”, trans*ness brings up questions about relationships between technology, reproduction, and the body that are themselves ecological questions. How can one think techniques of changing the body as emerging with one’s environment and access? What can trans*ness offer this re-conceptualizing of the nature-techne divide?

While there is a growing literature in “trans* ecologies,” this relatively new area of inquiry is still in formation. Therefore, the potential perspectives, subjects, and themes of this work are an open question—the list below of topics is meant to be generative rather than prescriptive or confining. However, the guest editors encourage intersectional submissions with an analysis of power that are informed by related fields of Black ecologies, ecofeminism, feminist science and technology studies, queer ecology, decolonial ecologies, abolition ecologies, and crip ecologies.

What can trans* embodiments, engagements, perspectives, and activism as well as the provocations of trans* studies teach us about…

Air
Animals and animalities
Atmosphere
Biomes
Biospheres
Capitalism and extractive economies
Climate change
Colonialism and imperialism
Conservation
Ecocriticism and environmental literature
Ecological theory
Ecosystems
Elements
Environmental art
Environmental discourse
Environmental justice
Environmental policy and politics
Environmental racism
Extinction
Field research
Food
Fungi
Health
Land
Lawns and gardens
Life
Multispecies relations
Microbiomes
Militarism
“Natural Sciences”
Naturopathy
Natural history museums
Parks
Plants and Botanicals
Pollution
Public spaces
Recreation and leisure
Spatial politics
States of matter
Taxidermy
Taxonomies
Toxicity
Water
“Waste”
Weather?

Likewise, in what ways can critical environmental and ecological thinking generate new possibilities for trans* studies and politics?

We welcome submissions to “Trans* Ecologies” in the form of:

Research articles (5,000-7,000 words);
Reviews (less than 5,000 words)—approval needed from editors before submission;
Creative fiction and nonfiction;
Visual art (300dpi or greater);
Syllabi and teaching materials.

Reading resources are listed at http://www.queerandtransecologies.com.

Send any questions about submissions to qtecologies@umn.edu.

To submit a manuscript, please visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-tsq. Please note that TSQ, like other Duke University Press Journals, has moved to ScholarOne, replacing the prior Editorial Manager platform. If this is your first time using ScholarOne, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. If you have any difficulties with the process, contact the journal at tsqjournal at gmail.com. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and blinded throughout. You must also submit an abstract, keywords, and biographical note at the time of initial submission. Please visit the editorial office's website for a detailed style guide.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. For most volumes one issue of TSQ is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/board.html.

Please send complete submissions by September 1, 2023.

Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.2: The Trans Marxist Issue

Guest Editors: Ira Terán (anochecientes@gmail.com) and Emrys Travis (emrys.travis@gmail.com)

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A spectre is haunting transgender studies - the spectre of Marxism. Recent years have seen the emergence of numerous trans scholars championing the centrality of Marxist analyses of social life to a thorough systemic understanding of trans subjectivity, oppression, and liberation. Although we can trace theoretical proposals and Marxism-adjacent trans militants through the 20th century, with groups such as Les Gazollines or S.T.A.R. and writers and activists including Mario Mieli and Leslie Feinberg, the transphobic prejudices of the international socialist movement, and the assimilationist tendencies of queer and trans interest groups, have historically hindered the emergence of a trans thought which utilises the conceptual tools of Marxism. We find ourselves in the midst of a rediscovery of these neglected traces, as trans writers and theorists such as Jules Joanne Gleeson, Nat Raha, Kay Gabriel, Harry Josephine Giles, Jordy Rosenberg, and Alyson Escalante revisit gay liberationist and lesbian feminist histories, taking up the common Marxist thread and weaving new interventions: elaborating the class dimension of cissexism; analysing the social reproduction of gender-dissident communities; and establishing a recognition of trans bodily autonomy as one cornerstone of a broader political struggle against capitalist alienation. The appearance of queer and trans studies journals with a renewed interest in historical materialism, such as Pinko and Invert, testifies to the increasing consolidation of the field of transgender Marxism (which gives its name, indeed, to a collective volume edited by Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke).

Beginning from the Marxist perspective that no aspect of capitalist life, including sex, sexuality and gender, exists in isolation from the mode of production, trans Marxism considers the ways in which capital intertwines with trans life - through the medicalised and carceralised regulation of bodies, differentiated experiences of exploitation in labour, the ubiquity and material power of the normative family structure - and how this can be collectively overcome. Trans Marxism builds on a rich collision of theoretical traditions, nurtured into being through multiplicitous currents of critical-insurrectional analyses and praxes: radical and materialist trans/feminisms, Black feminism and queer of color critique, police and prison abolitionisms, reproductive utopianism and xenofeminism, standpoint theory, queer anti/futurities, bio- and necropolitics, Social Reproduction Theory, socialist and Marxist feminisms and other ‘perversions’ of historical materialism, what Raha and Baars have come to call “hirstorical materialisms”. In this special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly we hope to follow Feinberg’s legacy, using old keys to open new doors and new keys to open old doors - ‘transing’ Marxism in the process of repurposing Marxist frameworks to ground and revolutionise transgender studies and praxis. We invite contributions which weave together threads from this palimpsest of theoretical and political traditions, opening onto new ways of seeing, doing and embodying transness and developing trans saberes colectivos. We seek to broaden and deepen the field of trans Marxism, and we particularly welcome submissions from researchers in the Global South and beyond the Anglosphere, as well as from activist-theorists whose intellectual work is rooted in political praxis and those working outside of academic and institutional contexts. In seeking a wide range of contributors, we invite contributions in English, Spanish, Italian and French. We welcome submissions in a broad variety of formats, beyond the constraints of a typical ‘paper’. In doing this we hope to curate a collection which - following Marx’s infamous adage - fosters analyses within trans scholarship that contribute not only to interpreting the world, but to changing it.

Themes to be covered

Submissions, in the form of research articles (5,000-7,000 words), reviews (less than 5,000 words), and/or other formats, might address but are not limited to:

Trans abolitionisms: dismantling prisons, police, family and gender
Gender dissidence and revolutionary histories
Gender outlaws in socialist movements
‘A la huelga compañere’ - trans struggles within and against work
Trans communities and Social Reproduction Theory
‘Fare la trans’, fare la rivoluzione’: materialist accounts of sex work
Towards a hirstorical materialism
Imperialism and the ‘modern/colonial sex/gender system’
Revolutionary global transfeminisms
Communist worldmaking in trans literature and culture
Communizing pleasure - bread, roses and hormones
Peripheral Pinkos - decolonising transgender Marxism
Transgender utopianism
The political economy of gender normativity
Trans-ing Marxisms, queering dialectics

Please send complete submissions by April 29, 2023. To submit a manuscript, please visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-tsq. Please note that TSQ, like other Duke University Press Journals, has moved to ScholarOne, replacing the prior Editorial Manager platform. If this is your first time using ScholarOne, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. If you have any difficulties with the process, contact the journal at tsqjournal at gmail.com. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and blinded throughout. You must also submit an abstract, keywords, and biographical note at the time of initial submission. Please visit the editorial office's website for a detailed style guide.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, micha cardenas, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. One issue of TSQ each year is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/board.html.

About the guest editors

Ira Terán is a Spanish Marxist and transfeminist activist with a BA in English Studies from the University of Zaragoza and a masters degree in LGBTIQ Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid. She collaborates with the Queer Studies Seminar at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid and with the Instituto de Estudios Culturales y Cambio Social (IECCS). She is an editor in the Spanish queer marxist journal Rojo del Arcoíris, has coordinated the trans anti-capitalist anthology Las degeneradas trans acaban con la familia (2022) and is currently co-coordinating Infames, a cultural reader on family abolition. Her research tackles transfemininity and queer utopianism from a materialist perspective.

Emrys Travis is a trans Marxist activist from the UK. They hold a BA in French and Italian Studies and an MPhil in Comparative Literatures and Cultures from the University of Cambridge. Their research confronts queer and trans experience and analysis with Marxist frameworks and concepts such as dialectics and totality-thinking, and their essay ‘El pueblo unito è meglio travestito’ inspired by the work of Mario Mieli has been published in the anthology Las degeneradas trans acaban con la familia. Alongside their research Emrys’s everyday work focuses on disability liberation, as secretary of their local branch of Disabled People Against Cuts, and as Disability and Accessibility Specialist for the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.1: Everything Must Go: Anti-Imperialism, Anarchism, Abolition

Guest editors: Jemma Decristo, Ren-yo Hwang, Christopher Joseph Lee, Eric Stanley

As charred police precincts are rebuilt in the name of progress what remains of the unruliness of revolt? All is not lost, but how do we bring moments of ecstatic possibility that will set the hands on the clock of the world to the boundless tempo of our collective living?

In the spirit of insurgent solidarity and riotous creativity, how do we envision and build regenerative abundance against the deadly ledger of law, rights, and a politics of lifeless representation? We remain moored in an era in which perfecting the racial capitalist machinery to service, jail or better police the proper trans criminal, consumer and or client now indexes the dystopic horizon of what makes for progressive trans politics.

Such empty gestures and deadly figurations invoke transness not as a method and mode towards making a colonial cisheteronormative patriarchy more intelligible, rather, seek only to preserve the death-dealing world as we know it–a selective incorporation of transness into a violent status quo. Whether it be a world of trans soldiers killing trans people in the Global South, trans non-profiteers policing the meager finances of their trans clients, or trans corrections officers jailing trans prisoners in gender-inclusive prisons–the nightmare is here.

In seeking greater intimacy and compliance with the very violent structures that wish to destroy us, the possibilities for joyful militancy and caring cohabitation become more and more out of reach. We are not homed or housed in the fullness of our living needs but bound in endless cycles of incorporation and exile, reaction and resignation–a feeling of rageful and righteous stuckness. How have trans politics become bound to perpetual accumulation and attrition, in which the need for abolitionist change is continually liquidated into incremental and futile reform? Such fetishizations of generic alterity and radicality are, themselves, obstacles to the world we are dreaming forward. All of it must go!

We invoke this urgency, not as a call to accelerationism or nihilistic indifference, but rather to ask what it would mean to nourish, wrestle with and be patient with a robust and life-giving vision of the world we want. What might urgency look like when not simply reactive or in opposition to the things we detest and abhor? How do we dislocate ourselves from the imposed temporalities of our systems of oppression, such as democratic incrementalism and progressive neoliberalism?

In this issue we want to create a space to think creatively and collectively, toward a liberatory study–which is also to say action–that refuses the disciplinarity of what we ought to know and instead attempts to describe and experiment with, at least for a moment, a way out.

Some questions to consider in relation to trans studies, politics and activism:

How do we fashion lives and modes of living and thriving through and perhaps even beyond our most radical political imagination?
If everything must go, then what, if anything, is worth saving?
If we live in a police state, is there room for any kind of state after the abolition of policing, prisons and punishment?
What tools can anarchism offer us to subtend the coming, and already here, ecocide?
Rather than just entering the housing market, how do we destroy the marketization of shelter? What are the legacies and futures of squatting not only abandoned buildings but also luxury condos?
Who is trans representation actually for? How does trans representation imitate the violence of the world rather than imagine our collective escape from the world waged against our lives and at our expense?
How has mainstream trans politics become enmeshed in a culture of over-identification with trans exceptionalism, trans glorification or the superficialization of trans identity as somehow itself a politics of trans-ness?
While some trans people believe mass death in the Global South is the necessary collateral for their comforts, what tendencies and strategies of anti-imperialist and decolonial struggle are necessary to make such ideologies unfathomable?
How are cultures and relationships of deep internationalism made more possible when we in the US, however unconsciously, still understand ourselves to be the locus of knowledge?
Can we deter the absorption of unruly abolitionist movements into non-profit, hierarchical, academic, corporate, and professionalizing institutions?
In reality and practice, the collective horizontalism imagined by mutual aid too often relies and collapses upon a single or set of few individuals to hold it all together. How do we reimagine and rearrange our networks of care to share responsibility, over time and across geographies, in holding up the world we want and need?

We particularly welcome submissions from people unaffiliated with the academy, formerly and currently incarcerated people as well as organizers outside of the “United States.” We are also interested in collaborative pieces, teach-in materials, pedagogical, poetic, and creative interventions, interviews, artist/collective statements, manifestos and more.

Please send complete submissions by January 30, 2023. To submit a manuscript, please visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-tsq. Please note that TSQ, like other Duke University Press Journals, has moved to ScholarOne, replacing the prior Editorial Manager platform. If this is your first time using ScholarOne, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. If you have any difficulties with the process, contact the journal at tsqjournal at gmail.com. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and blinded throughout. You must also submit an abstract, keywords, and biographical note at the time of initial submission. Please visit the editorial office's website for a detailed style guide.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, micha cardenas, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. One issue of TSQ each year is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/board.html.

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TSQ 8.4

Transgender Studies Quarterly 8.4 - CFP

The Transvestite/Transsexual Issue

Guest Editors: Emmett Harsin Drager and Lucas Platero

Where do we find the transvestite and the transsexual? The ascendance and mainstreaming of "transgender" and its offshoots in its Anglo-American idiom represent more than a shift in nomenclature. While "transsexual" and "transvestite" were central categories that organized trans experience across a wide array of geographies, genders, and racial and class coordinates during the twentieth century, these categories have receded into the background of Anglophone activism and academia. Trans studies, which has been dominated by US and English-based scholarship, has largely moved on from transsexuals in favor of ostensibly more open-ended and proliferating models of gender variance. Transvestites, for their part, have never occupied the center of the field. Rendered anachronistic, both groups are more vulnerable than ever to long-standing stigmas with a new temporal twist. Either tragic figures who could never be their "true" selves, in the case of transvestites, or hyper gender-conforming figures limited by the time in which they lived, in the case of transsexuals, the forward march of transgender has buried the fact that there are many living people who still identify with and live under those signs. Just as importantly, a colonial spatial logic has also exported transsexuality and tranvestism out of the global north, embedding them as racial markers of gender in the global south. This process is taking place in spite of vocal counter-claims from communities that reject a Euro-American telos to trans identity and politics.

This special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly seeks a critical reevaluation of transsexuals and transvestites, at once temporal, geographical, and political. Where do transsexuals and transvestites reside--historically, temporally, geographically, regionally? How have these categories been rendered untimely, retrograde, or counterrevolutionary? And how do they manifest geographically, regionally, and racially? We seek contributions that challenge the relegation of the transsexual and transvestite to another time and place in a broad sense, not just by or in transgender studies. And we seek to problematize how these categories do and don't easily convene people across transnational, temporal, and linguistic boundaries. We particularly invite contributions from the global south that challenge the racialization of these categories and people by a Euro-American dominant account of time and geography, as well as contributions from the global north that challenge the invisibilization of transsexuals and transvestites by race and class

This issue welcomes a wide range of formats for contributions, grouped by two sections: scholarly research articles and creative writing for a transsexual/transvestite scrapbook.

In seeking a wide range of contributors, we invite contributions in English and Spanish.

Research Articles (5,000-7,000 words):

Scholarly articles between might address, but are not limited to:

The racialization of transsexuality and transvestism
The spatial and geographic histories of "transsexual" and "transvestite"
Class dimensions of transsexuality and transvestism
The presumed heterosexuality of transsexuality and transvestism
Local and regionally specific accounts of transsexual and transvestite life
Personal archives, ephemera and intimate histories/memory
Contact ads, personals, transsexual directories, and correspondence
Ballroom and pageant culture
Carnaval and beauty contests
Impersonators, drag, cabaret, night life
Cross-dressing and its relationship to transness
Sex work and street life
Travesti cultures, identities, and political movements

Transsexual/Tranvesite Scrapbook Contributions (500-2,000 words)

This special issue will feature a "scrapbook" composed of everyday material cultures of transsexuals and transvestites, with a multimedia companion on TSQ's upcoming online platform. The hand-made and assembled form holds space in the issue for central non-scholarly trans genres and aims to stage the heterogeneity of "transvestite" and "transsexual" social life. We invite submissions of media and material in any language (photo albums; letters; art; and images of personal effects, ephemera, and other everyday items). We invite contributors to include a short (500-2000 words) written engagement to accompany their scrapbook items. This writing could take any genre, including but not limited to: translations; literary and poetic reflection; letters to the subjects represented in the materials; interviews with the owners/subjects of the material; manifestos and pamphlets; or other creative, speculative, and reflective work. Contributors from outside Anglo-American academia, in particular, are invited to consider the difficulty of translating everyday materials into the dominant categories of "transsexual" and "transvestite." Please note that contributors will need to secure all required permissions to reproduce images, art, and ephemera

Please send complete submissions by October 1, 2020. To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/tsq. If this is your first time using Editorial Manager, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. If you have any difficulties with the process, contact the journal at tsqjournal@gmail.com. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and blinded throughout. You must also submit an abstract, keywords, and biographical note at the time of initial submission. Please visit the editorial office's website for a detailed style guide. Questions for the editors of this issue may be addressed to harsindr@usc.edu.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is an academic journal edited by Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, Grace Lavery, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abraham B. Weil, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. One issue of TSQ each year is a non-themed open call, with the other three issues devoted to special themes; every issue also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other special issues, visit lgbt.arizona.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly. For information about subscriptions, visit dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly.

Transgender Studies Quarterly 8.4 -- Convocatoria para recibir contribuciones

La cuestión travesti/transexual

Editores Invitados: Emmett Harsin Drager y Lucas Platero

¿Dónde encontramos al travesti y al transexual? La influencia y la generalización del uso de la expresión "transgénero" ( transgender) y todas sus derivaciones en la variante del inglés de EEUU representa algo más que un cambio de nomenclatura. Mientras que "travesti" y "transexual" han sido categorías centrales que han organizado la experiencia trans en una variedad de geografías, géneros, clase y grupos raciales durante el siglo XX, están relegadas a un segundo plano en el activismo y la academia anglófona. Los estudios trans, dominados por el trabajo académico en EEUU y basados en el uso del inglés, han abandonado la categoría médica transexual en favor de modelos ostensiblemente más abiertos sobre la diversidad de género. Por otra parte, la categoría travesti nunca ha ocupado una posición central en ese campo de estudio. Señalados como anacronismos, ambos grupos son más vulnerables que nunca a un estigma atávico que contiene un nuevo giro. Representadas como figuras trágicas que nunca encontraron su "verdadero" yo, en el caso de lxs travestis, o como personas que asumen completamente las normas de género por el momento que les tocó vivir, en el caso de lxs transexuales, el avance del término "transgender" ha invisibilizado el hecho que hay personas que aún viven y se identifican con estas categorías. Igualmente importante es el hecho de que, desde una lógica espacial colonial, se ha extraído al transexual y al travesti del norte global, reubicándoles como marcadores raciales de género provenientes del sur global. Este proceso se produce a pesar de las voces críticas de comunidades que rechazan un telos euro-americano para la identidad y la política trans.

En este número monográfico de Transgender Studies Quarterly buscamos hacer una reevaluación crítica de las categorías transexual y travesti, que tenga un carácter temporal, geográfico y político. ¿Dónde se ubican histórica, temporal, geográfica y regionalmente lxs travestis y transexuales? ¿Cómo han sido relegadas estas categorías y tildadas de inoportunas, retrógradas o contrarrevolucionarias? ¿Cómo se manifiestan en términos geográficos, regionales o raciales? Buscamos contribuciones que desafíen el destierro de las travestis y transexuales a otro tiempo y espacio, en un sentido amplio, no solo por o desde los estudios que usan la categoría "transgender". Buscamos además problematizar que tales categorías aúnen (o no) a la gente más allá de las fronteras transnacionales, temporales o lingüísticas. Particularmente, invitamos a participar a quienes hagan contribuciones desde el sur global y que desafíen la racialización de esas categorías y de esas personas, así como la narrativa dominante Euro-Norteamericana del tiempo y la geografía. También deseamos recibir contribuciones desde el norte global que desafíen la invisibilización de travestis y transexuales por razón de clase social o raza

En este monográfico deseamos recibir contribuciones en diferentes formatos, dentro de dos secciones posibles: artículos académicos de investigación, y escritura creativa para un álbum de recortes transexual/travesti.

Con el fin de tener una amplia variedad de contribuciones a la revista, invitamos a publicar en inglés y español.

Artículos de investigación (entre 5.000 y 7.000 palabras):

Los artículos académicos pueden abordar los siguientes temas, sin que tengan que limitarse a estos:

La racialización de lo travesti y transexual
Las historias espaciales y geográficas de las vidas travestis y transexuales
Las dimensiones de clase de las vidas de travestis y transexuales.
La presuposición de heterosexualidad en travestis y transexuales.
Las especificidades de las narraciones locales y regionales de las vidas travestis y transexuales.
Archivos personales, materiales efímeros e historias/memorias íntimas.
Anuncios de contactos, anuncios personales, directorios de transexuales y correspondencia
La cultura del salón de baile y de los desfiles
El Carnaval y los concursos de belleza
Imitadorxs, drag, cabaret, vida nocturna
Cross-dressing, travestismo y su relación con lo trans
Trabajo sexual y vida en la calle
Culturas, identidades y movimientos políticos travesti

Contribuciones al álbum de materiales misceláneos ( Scrapbook) (entre 500 y 2.000 palabras)

En este número monográfico incluiremos un álbum de recortes ("scrapbook") compuesto de materiales de la vida cotidiana de travestis y transexuales, que también recibirán difusión en una plataforma multimedia de TSQ, que pronto estará en la red. El formato "hecho a mano" y de bricolage da un espacio central en este número monográfico a estilos trans no académicos, y busca mostrar la heterogeneidad de la vida social "travesti" y "transexual".

Invitamos a enviar contribuciones sobre medios de comunicación y materiales que estén en cualquier idioma (álbumes de fotos, cartas, materiales artísticos, imágenes de objetos personales, materiales efímeros y otras cosas de la vida cotidiana). Invitamos, ademas, a escribir una nota corta a modo de bitácora (entre 500 y 2000 palabras), que acompañe dichos materiales. Esta nota puede tener formas variadas, por ejemplo: traducciones, comentarios literarios y poéticos; cartas a las personas que aparecen en los materiales; entrevistas con las personas a quienes pertenecen/aparecen en los materiales; manifiestos y panfletos; y otras contribuciones creativas, especulativas y reflexivas. Las personas que envíen contribuciones de fuera de la academia Anglo-Americana, en particular, deben tener en cuenta la dificultad de traducir los materiales de la vida cotidiana sobre las categorías "travesti" y "transexual". Por favor, téngase en cuenta además para hacer una contribución al álbum de recortes se deben tener los permisos para la reproducción de imágenes, así como de los materiales artísticos y efímeros.

La fecha límite para enviar las contribuciones ya terminadas es el 1 de octubre de 2020. Para enviar un manuscrito, visite http://www.editorialmanager.com/tsq. Si es la primera vez que usa la plataforma Editorial Manager, por favor, regístrese primero y luego envíe su manuscrito. Si encuentra dificultades en el proceso, por favor, escriba a tsqjournal@gmail.com .Todos los manuscritos han de estar escritos a doble espacio, incluidas las citas y notas a pie, y estar completamente anonimizadas. En ese mismo envío, incluya también un resumen/abstract, palabras clave, una breve nota biográfica. Por favor, visite la web de la revista para una guía de estilo detallada. Las preguntas sobre este número especial se pueden enviar a harsindr@usc.edu y lucas.platero@uab.cat

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly es una revista académica editada por Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, Grace Lavery, Jules Gill-Peterson, y Abraham B. Weil, publicada por Duke University Press. TSQ aspira a ser la revista que recoja el ámbito interdisciplinar de los estudios transgénero así como promover la mayor amplitud de perspectivas sobre el fenómeno transgénero ampliamente definido. Cada año, hay un número de TSQ que no es monográfico sobre un tema, así los otros tres números se dedican a temas especiales; cada número también contiene una serie de secciones como son las reseñas, entrevistas y artículos de opinión. Para saber más de la revista y ver las convocatorias para enviar contribuciones de otros números monográficos, por favor visite lgbt.arizona.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly. Para más información sobre subscripciones, visite dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly.

TSQ 8.3

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly - Call for Papers

Volume 8, Issue 3
General Issue
Issue Editor: Abraham B. Weil

We are pleased to invite submission for TSQ 8.3, our next open call issue, to be published August 2021. We welcome works of varying lengths, on any topic that substantively engages with 'trans' as a subject of inquiry, philosophy, methodology, or field of study. We especially encourage submissions that consider intersections of trans studies with other fields of study rooted in the critical analysis of minoritized populations such as people of color and people with disabilities, that engage with feminism, challenge trans studies' emphasis on the global north, disrupt or productively complicate the dominance of English in trans studies, or which include and esteem the embodied knowledge of trans persons outside of the academy.

The expected range for scholarly articles is 5000 to 7000 words, and 1000 to 2000 words for shorter critical essays and descriptive accounts. Illustrations should be included with both completed submissions and abstracts. Submissions must be received by September 30, 2020.

To submit a manuscript, please visit editorialmanager.com/tsq. For step-by-step submission instructions, please see our submission guide and style guide. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and blinded throughout. Submissions will include an abstract (150 words or less), keywords (3-5 for indexing), and a brief author's biographical note (50 words or less) at the time of initial submission.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, published by Duke University Press, is co-edited by Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson Grace Lavery, and Abraham Weil, with editorial offices at the University of New Mexico's Feminist Research Institute. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena, broadly defined. Each volume has three special issues and one general issue. Each issue contains regularly recurring features such as book reviews, arts and culture, interviews, and translations. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other issues, visit our website.

Email: tsqjournal@gmail.com.
Twitter: @tsqjournal
TSQ*Now: https://www.tsqnow.online/
Subscriptions: https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly

TSQ 8.2

CFP: The Europa Issue

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 8.2
Summer, 2020
Editors: Yv E. Nay and Eliza Steinbock

At the heart of European modernity lies the inscription of the transsexual body.

For The Europa Issue of TSQ, we invite your response to this provocation through research articles of 4000-6000 words as well as reports from the field (e.g. legal and medical case studies, social policy documents, historical vignettes, philosophical texts, conference reports, works of art, cultural and media production, life writing, ethnography, and so on) that engage with a range of methods, lineages and practices, from 1000 to 4000 words in length.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, European empiricism has organized knowledge production according to strictures of observing material 'truths' in Nature, birthing manifold practices for studying human beings. The modern Western European worldview remains inextricably linked to this rise in the stature of the Human Sciences and its preoccupation with registering the difference between bodies and developing representational practices for their social classification, moral hierarchization, and ranking as human, subhuman, and non-human. The regulation of "social monstrosity" provided the ground for "regimes of normalization" to sprout and spread across all of society (Foucault, Les Abnormaux, 1974-1975; Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire, 1995). The legitimation of formal and informal forms of governance of these regimes seeded the development of sciencia sexualis, psychiatry, endocrinology, surgery and other medical fields engaged in not only the social regulation of newly identified populations but also the "better breeding" programs of Nation-States furthered by the academic discipline of eugenics. It was in this milieu that the elaboration of the sexological sciences, studying what we would now call "transgender phenomena" (Stryker, "(De)subjugated Knowledges," 2006), was lead by European figures such as Richard von Krafft-Ebbing with his taxonomy of social deviance, Karl von Westphal and his concept of contrary sexual sentiments, Magnus Hirschfeld and his terminology of transsexualismus, or Havelock Ellis's notion of eonism. In the wake of the twentieth century's fascism occurring in and across various parts of Europe and its colonies, sex scientists like Harry Benjamin, together with their concepts for cross-sex and -gender identification, found refuge mainly in the United States. As a consequence, the official terms of medical pathologization -- transexualism, gender identity disorder, and gender dysphoria -- took root in North American private clinics and university programs. This special issue departs from this historical background while at the same time challenging the hold of "European" knowledge production and its traditions in two interrelated clusters of approaches.

First, we aim to interrogate the origin story of the study of transgender phenomena in Europe. We call for contributions that address questions such as the following: What does the study of trans-Atlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts on transgender phenomena bring to our understanding of how transgender has been formulated and regulated? How might investigating the 'early' study of transgender as phenomena complicate the narratives of pathologization and inform present-day struggles for the project of "depathologization" of trans identities, gender variance and gender non-conforming persons around the world (Cabral, Suess, Ehrt, Seehole, and Wong, "Removal of gender incongruence of childhood diagnostic category: a human rights perspective," 2016)? Beyond the archive of a seemingly European history of the study of transgender phenomena, we also call for contributions that refer to what Foucault (Foucault, Il faut défendre la société, 1975-1976) has called "subjugated knowledges," including what Stryker (2006) has instructively referred to as the basis of transgender studies, thus, to local and historical accounts that have been excluded from the systematization of knowledges that aim at producing coherence by disqualifying embodied knowledge as non-scientific or inferior.

Second, this special issue invites contributions that focus on "provincializing" and "de-centring" European inflections of transgender studies (Chakrabarty Provincializing Europe: PostColonial Thought and Historical Difference, 2000; Kulpa and Mizielińska, De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, 2011). The archives of sexology, anthropology, religion, and law attest to the Eurocentric fascination with and genocidal European practices of exterminating "deviant" or "unnatural" forms of embodiment, claims to gender identity, and social structures for them in cultures within and outside Europe in the context of colonization and imperialism. We welcome contributions that critically scrutinize the impacts of the term 'transgender,' what its colonial legacies are, how the term is circulating locally and globally, and how race, ethnicity, class, and geo-political location complicate its circulation and "vitalizes" trans studies and activism (Snorton and Haritaworn, "Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife," 2013; Haritaworn, Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places, 2015). In coordination with European postcolonial and decolonizing projects that also question temporalities/timelines of modernity, what particular insights does a trans optics yield? In this cluster we suggest the method of provincializing and de-centring to be applied to an area (where lies Europe, in what does it consist?) and, also in turn to the related epistemological tradition (what is European trans studies, in what does it consist?).

Thus, we invite contributors to query the institutionalization of transgender studies. We place this call at a time in which European citizens and newcomers are faced with a resurgence of fascisms. How is trans studies and theory vested with Eurocentric privilege, and how is it contested by various racialized, ethnicized, colonized and diasporic communities from outside and within Europe? What are the different terms/ways by which we should evaluate "trans studies" in the European context, where both pathologizing and depathologizing activity occurs? What narratives and case studies challenge the assumption that the 'center' of Europe initiates progressive historical change, which the 'margins' of Europe would follow? What kinds of hegemonies operate in European gender, sexuality and race studies that impact the ways interdisciplinary transgender studies has developed? Here we call for special attention to Post-Soviet and post-socialist nationalisms, the formation of the European Union and its funding schemes, to different mobilities and patterns of migration, and to language use within Nation-States and between them.

In line with the aim of this special issue and given the fact that TSQ is an English-language peer-reviewed academic journal based in the United States, we encourage authors to contact the editors if they wish to write in a non-English language. We will be able to translate at least one submission that following peer-review is accepted into the issue (in the case where an author does not have access to university funding for translation).

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2020. All manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous peer review with scholarly citations in Chicago author-date citation style. Any questions should be addressed by e-mail to both guest editors for the issue: Yv E. Nay( yvnay@email.arizona.edu) and Eliza Steinbock ( e.a.steinbock@hum.leidenuniv.nl). We plan to respond to submissions by August 2019. Final revisions will be due by November 26, 2019. TSQ accepts submissions without regard to academic affiliation or rank; artists, activists, and graduate students are also welcome to submit materials for consideration.

To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/tsq. Please note that TSQ does not accept simultaneous submissions. Manuscripts proposed for this issue cannot be submitted elsewhere until editorial decisions are sent out. If this is your first time using Editorial Manager, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. You may address any technical or formatting queries to tsqjournal@gmail.com. All manuscripts should be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and anonymized throughout. Please include an abstract (150 words or less), keywords (3-5 for indexing), and a brief author's biographical note (50 words or less) at the time of initial submission. See http://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/Downloads/TSQ_sg.pdf for a detailed style guide.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is co-edited by Francisco J. Galarte and Susan Stryker, and published by Duke University Press, with editorial offices at the University of Arizona's Institute for LGBT Studies. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Most issues of TSQ are themed special issues, with one open call issue each year; all issues contain regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. https://lgbt.arizona.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly.

TSQ 9.1

The t4t Issue

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly,
Volume 9, Issue 1
Guest Editors: Cameron Awkward-Rich and Hil Malatino

Anecdotally, it seems, many of us are "t4t." Though the term began its digital life as a category within the now defunct personals section of Craigslist (a regionally-tailored online version of classified advertisements) as a way to sequester trans folks from the categories of "m" and "w," trans folks quickly reclaimed it. It became a hashtag utilized to describe circuits of desire and attraction as well as practices of trans solidarity and mutual aid. t4t became a way to name a form of trans separatism and desire, a mode of living that prioritizes the bonds and intimacies, sexual and otherwise, shared between trans subjects. The hashtag now appears regularly across social media platforms, on t-shirts, and on book covers.

However, despite its widespread use, its multivalent meanings, and its resonance as an apt description of many trans cultural forms, t4t has thus far been under-recognized and untheorized within trans studies. This special issue invites both critical reflection on and attempts to fill this gap. We invite work that explores the multiple and overlapping meanings that attach to t4t: solidarity, desire, attraction, separatism. That is, t4t is simultaneously libidinal and embedded in practices of communality, kin work, knowledge production, and care labor. Because it names a kind of separatism, t4t, in theory and in practice, comes with the attendant risks of other forms of separatism: exclusion, identity policing, the prioritization of one aspect of identity or one dimension of power over others, difficulty in engaging strategic coalition: all failures of intersectionality. And yet, in a world that remains hostile to trans forms of life, t4t also circulates as a promising practice of love, repair, and potential healing. We solicit work on all aspects of t4t theory and praxis, including, but not limited to:

t4t attraction, eroticism, sex, and desire
trans/gender-variant BIPOC strategies for resistance, survival, and worldmaking
Trans communal practices of mutual aid, i.e. crowdfunding; medical advocacy; surgical aftercare; direct providence of housing, food, health care, and transportation; and any other form of non-transactional, non-extractive care.
Practices of trans chosen family and kin-building
Trans experiments with communal/collective living
Trans separatism, intersectionality, and/or exclusion
t4t and whiteness
Trans-ing care ethics
Transnational trans intimacies or failures of the same
Intergenerational trans solidarities or failures of the same
Minoritizing vs. universalizing impulses in trans thought

In addition to full-length scholarly articles we will consider for publication first-person accounts, shorter essays, opinion pieces, poetry, artwork, and other forms of creative expression that fit the theme of t4t. We encourage contributions from a wide range of contributors including academics, independent researchers, and activists. The expected length of scholarly articles is 5000-7000 words; depending on their form, shorter pieces can range from 100-3000 words.

Please send complete submissions by January 15, 2021. Authors will receive a response by February 15, 2021. To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/tsq. If this is your first time using Editorial Manager, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. If you have any difficulties with the process, contact the journal at tsqjournal@gmail.com. All manuscripts must be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, complete citations, and blinded throughout. You must also submit an abstract, keywords, and biographical note at the time of initial submission. Please visit the editorial office's website for a detailed style guide. Questions for the editors of this issue may be addressed to cawkwardrich@umass.edu and HMalatino@psu.edu.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is co-edited by Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, Grace Lavery and Abraham Weil, and published by Duke University Press, with editorial offices at the University of New Mexico's Feminist Research Institute. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Most issues of TSQ is a specially themed issue that also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces, with one issue each year being an open call, general issue. To learn more about the journal and see calls for papers for other issues, visit http://lgbt.arizona.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly. For info about subscriptions, visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq. For our new auxiliary website, please visit https://www.tsqnow.online/.

TSQ 9.2

Call for Papers

"Intersex/Trans Studies"
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly,
Volume 9, Issue 2

Trans and intersex studies have materialized in parallel yet different genealogies. This special issue seeks scholarship that addresses their affinities, convergences, rifts, and contradictions. As scholars working in both intersex and trans studies, we are collectively invested in engagements with and refusals of pathologization and possibilities for coalitional, intersectional, and transnational work. We recognize that trans studies has been more readily accepted in the academy than intersex studies and want to examine sacrifices and gains that have characterized both the institutionalization of trans studies and the lack of institutional attention to intersex studies. We seek contributions engaging these issues and areas of inquiry that might include the following:

Treatments for trans patients were developed from medical experimentation on intersex infants (Gill-Peterson 2018), while intersex and trans medicalization cannot be considered apart from what Saidyia Hartman (1997) calls the afterlives of slavery and the continuing influence of the scientific racisms on contemporary thought and practice. What, then, are the hidden histories and linkages among intersex and trans medicalization, eugenics, antiblackness, settler colonialism, reproductive control, and biocapitalism?
How can we think critically about tensions and antagonisms that may exist among various intersex and trans communities? How might intersex and trans studies reconfigure resistance to binary logics of sex and gender in ways that move beyond human rights rhetoric and resonate with critiques of neoliberalism? How have trans and intersex genealogies, and emerging canons, reflected and/or challenged generalizations grounded in whiteness and in the Global North?
What forms do intersex and trans joy take? Is gender euphoria a useful mode of resistance and method for survival? How might religion, spirituality, and/or embodied practices broadly conceived offer tools for imagining new socialities? What intersex and trans forms of affect, agency, insurgency, and resistance can be used for scholarship, pedagogy, and activism?

We welcome submissions from 1000 to 5000 words in length that engage a wide range of methods, disciplines, lineages, and practices. The deadline for submissions is April 29, 2021. All manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous peer review with scholarly citations in Chicago author-date citation style. Any questions should be addressed by e-mail to the guest editors for the issue: Michelle Wolff ( michellewolff@augustana.edu), David A. Rubin ( davidarubin@usf.edu), and Amanda Lock Swarr ( aswarr@uw.edu). We plan to respond to submissions by June 29, 2021. Final revisions will be due by August 26, 2021. TSQ accepts submissions without regard to academic affiliation or rank; artists, activists, and graduate students are also welcome to submit materials for consideration.

To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/tsq. Please note that TSQ does not accept simultaneous submissions. Manuscripts proposed for this issue cannot be submitted elsewhere until editorial decisions are sent out. If this is your first time using Editorial Manager, please register first, then proceed with submitting your manuscript. You may address any technical or formatting queries to tsqjournal@gmail.com. All manuscripts should be double-spaced, including quotations and endnotes, and anonymized throughout. Please include an abstract (150 words or less), keywords (3-5 for indexing), and a brief author's biographical note (50 words or less) at the time of initial submission. See http://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/Downloads/TSQ_sg.pdf for a detailed style guide.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is co-edited by Francisco J. Galarte, Susan Stryker, Abraham Weil, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Grace Lavery and published by Duke University Press, with editorial offices at the University of Arizona's Institute for LGBT Studies. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Most issues of TSQ are themed special issues, with one open call issue each year; all issues contain regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. https://lgbt.arizona.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly.

TSQ 9.3

TRANS-EXCLUSIONARY FEMINISMS AND THE GLOBAL NEW RIGHT
Serena Bassi and Greta LaFleur, editors
Deadline: July1, 2021

From reactionary U.S. American lesbian feminists who sought to oust trans women from lesbian communities in the 1970s, to global, twenty-first-century critiques of "gender ideology" gaining traction in the new Right, the last 50 years have seen the meteoric rise of forms of transphobia and other refusals of trans experience gathered under the name of "feminism." Distinct from what we might think of as a more generic transphobia that has been woven through feminist cultural politics, these movements are notable for the fact that they have all, at times, organized specifically around refusing the reality of trans experience, knowledge, and identities. And whereas in their earliest moments, these political movements were initially significantly more minoritarian and decentralized in scope, with the rise of everything from the internet, economic deregulation, and globalization more broadly, these movements have coalesced and grown in volume, membership, and power over the last two decades in particular, finding proponents and funding in conservative think tanks, wealthy global religious infrastructures, and universities.

Indeed, an unprecedented cultural alliance is and has been underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that gender is a social and cultural construction. This so-called "anti-gender" movementâ€” which also travels under names such as "gender-critical feminism," critiquing "gender ideology"â€” has found immense international power, and is especially active in Latin America, continental Europe and Russia, with different but no less pernicious strains revitalizing longtime trans exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) scholars, politics and communities in England, Canada, the United States, and Australia. This polyvocal but increasingly organized global movement argues that "gender theory"â€” understood to be a radical Left, North American theory seeking to create a New Human that is neither male nor femaleâ€” is travelling worldwide, informing public policy and being taught to unsuspecting young people in schools and universities under the pretense of fighting discrimination in its multiple forms. This "anti-gender" movement can be traced, in many regions, to forms of Catholic activism, and has grown significantly over the last decade as it has been welcomed into the fore of far-right grassroots movements since the late 1990s, including efforts to organize against reproductive rights, same-sex marriage and adoption, sex education, and efforts to end discrimination based on gender identity.

This special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly is intended to offer a forum on what the global rise of trans exclusionary politics, and the envelopment of these politics into the new global right, might mean for changing understandings of transgender experience, science and medicine, legal protections, policy, cultural imaginaries, knowledges, and lifeâ€” in short, for trans studies as a whole. We proceed, in this special issue, from the assumption that trans studies and trans politics more broadly ignore this global movementâ€”or collapse it under a singular and localized assumption that it simply represents an updated TERF politicsâ€”at our own peril. This special issue thus invites contributions that critically examine and respond to the global dissemination of "gender critical" discourse and activism from disparate and seemingly ideologically contradictory sites. How might trans studies, as a field, take stock of this cultural moment, in which trans-exclusionary feminism is increasingly becoming a privileged ally of the global New Right in shaping a politically expedient binary between a putatively "authentic," ostensibly cis womanhood and trans womanhood? We seek contributions that focus on this emerging political and cultural alliance to interrogate its history and intellectual and theoretical genealogies, as well as its multiple discursive and material effects globally. In this context, how are terms like "feminism," "transgender" and "transfeminism" being re-semanticized from competing and multiple sites of knowledge production? What do these new reactionary alliances mean for the way we organize as transfeminists?

We invited proposals for articles, roundtables, or fora on (but not limited to) the following topics:

The political and intellectual histories of trans-exclusionary feminisms and other politicized refusals of trans experience, identity, and life, including histories specific to regions, fields, institutions, infrastructures, etc;
The imbrications of post-feminist discourse and "gender-critical" feminisms in media cultures, including publishing, film and television and online content;
Meditations on changes to TERF or otherwise "gender-critical" feminisms over time;
Anti-femme and/or anti-femininity sentiment, aesthetics and politics in feminist discourse;
The incorporation of TERF and other trans-exclusionary or trans-refusal politics into the political landscape of the New Right; overlaps and exchanges between TERFS and right-wing online personalities like Jordan Peterson, Candace Owen, Joe Rogan etc.; shared campaigning and causes between TERFS, the Alt-Right and Men's Rights groups; Incorporation of alt-right politics into TERF rhetoric and platforms (e.g. radical lesbian feminist concerns about "butch genocide" drawing from the alt-right "white genocide");
Networks and forms of collective organizing that bring together "gender critical" feminists and far right activists and politicians and "gender critical" anti-trans campaigns with racist organizing, furthering islamophobia and anti-immigration politics (i.e. far-right European groups like PEGIDA, Turning Point UK and Generation Identity);
The political economy of the circulation of "gender critical" knowledge (i.e. the global flow of funding for research institutes that produce anti-trans knowledge);
The globalization of TERF feminisms and the global travel of the term TERF in languages other than English; how and where are these ideas being absorbed, and by which disciplines? How and why have the disciplines of psychology and philosophy become such strongholds for "gender-critical" ideologies?;
"Gender-critical" feminisms as occasion for free speech and the full imbrication of feminism in the rise of the new right;
Challenging the notion that feminism is a incontrovertible social good; has it become (or always been?) an easy vehicle for white supremacy? How do we talk about feminism when the impetus for some of its articulation is explicitly and solely organized around transphobia / refusing the womanhood of trans women?;
The re-semanticization of feminism in various moments and movements;
Trans-exclusionary feminism as manifestation of the politics of injury at the center of many iterations of white feminism;
Trans-exclusionary politics as imbricated in the long wake of biological essentialism;
How Transphobic political positions are reimagined as a politics protective of cis women and POC, especially fearmongering regarding "safety"; surveillance, global securitization.
The imbrication of trans-exclusive or trans-refusing rhetoric in a politics of heterosexuality (even as lesbian feminists have adopted it, too); what the right gains by committing to the foundational structures of sexual difference.
Transnational antifascist transfeminism movements against trans-exclusion and the New Right.

The expected word-count limit for research articles is 8000 words, and 1000 to 2000 words for shorter critical essays and descriptive accounts. Illustrations should be included with both completed submissions and abstracts. Submissions must be received by July 1, 2021.

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