General Issue
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly: 13.4: General Issue
Issue Editor: micha cárdenas
Although most issues of TSQ are special issues devoted to a particular theme, one issue each year is a general, open-call, non-themed issue. We are pleased to invite submissions for TSQ 13.4, our next open call issue. We welcome works of varying lengths, on any topic that substantively engages with ‘trans’ as a subject of inquiry, 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 English in trans studies, or which include and esteem the embodied knowledge of trans persons outside of the academy.
For this issue, the editors of TSQ are particularly looking for responses to the current moment of anti-trans and anti-”gender ideology” violence in the US and around the world. Possible topics include:
- Transness in Gaza and the Palestine solidarity movement
- Defining trans people out of existence
- Trans immigrants in detention and deportation
- Legal challenges to anti-trans executive orders and legislative actions
- Trans people, movements, and operations in anti-fascist movements and actions
- The intersections of white supremacy and transphobia
- Passports, birth certificates and X markers
- Transness and disability against eugenics programs like "Make America Healthy"
- Trans campus activism in light of campus repression
- Militant research, Practice-based research, and first person accounts of trans activism
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.
Art and media submissions are encouraged. Some submissions may be considered for publication online at TSQ*Now.
Submissions must be received by October 15, 2025.
Any questions about the issue should be addressed to our editorial office: tsqjournal at gmail.com.
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 anonymized 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 and Ciara Cremin, and published by Duke University Press. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, promoting the broadest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. One issue of TSQ is dedicated to a non-themed open call, with the other three issues focusing on special themes; every issue also features regularly recurring elements, including 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/
