Transgender Studies Quarterly

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 our website. For information about subscriptions, visit https://www.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 nuestra pagina . Para más información sobre subscripciones, visite https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly.

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 http://www.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

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. visit our website

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 our website. For info about subscriptions, visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq. For our new auxiliary website, please visit https://www.tsqnow.online/.

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. visit our website

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” movement— which also travels under names such as “gender-critical feminism,” critiquing “gender ideology”— 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”— understood to be a radical Left, North American theory seeking to create a New Human that is neither male nor female— 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 life— 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 movement—or collapse it under a singular and localized assumption that it simply represents an updated TERF politics—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:

1. 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;
2. The imbrications of post-feminist discourse and “gender-critical” feminisms in media cultures, including publishing, film and television and online content;   
3. Meditations on changes to TERF or otherwise “gender-critical” feminisms over time;
4. Anti-femme and/or anti-femininity sentiment, aesthetics and politics in feminist discourse;
5. 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”);
6. 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); 
7. 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); 
8. 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?;
9. “Gender-critical” feminisms as occasion for free speech and the full imbrication of feminism in the rise of the new right;
10. 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?;
11. The re-semanticization of feminism in various moments and movements;
12. Trans-exclusionary feminism as manifestation of the politics of injury at the center of many iterations of white feminism;
13. Trans-exclusionary politics as imbricated in the long wake of biological essentialism;
14. How Transphobic political positions are reimagined as a politics protective of cis women and POC, especially fearmongering regarding “safety”; surveillance, global securitization.
15. 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.
16. 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.

To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.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.

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TSQ 10.2 “The Sports Issue”

CJ Jones, Purchase College, State University of New York
cj.jones@purchase.edu

Travers, Simon Fraser University
atravers@sfu.ca

What can trans studies offer to critical sports studies of gender and sex, and vice versa? What can trans sports studies accomplish that neither field can accomplish on its own? Modern sport has long been a site that regulates gender normativity and polices deviance while pretending that it does none of these things at all. Governing bodies in sports obfuscate responsibility for policing practices by declaring that these practices ensure fair play and eliminate unfair advantages between competitors. Shoring up these claims of fair play are appeals to stable, immutable criteria for sex, instantiated through femininity certificates in the early twentieth century, institutionalized sex testing of women athletes in elite sports, to most recently a capped threshold of testosterone for female eligibility in elite women’s sports.

Also in this assemblage are gender critical feminists who seek to influence school athletic policies from youth to the elite level, calling for sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity to determine participation. Trans girls and women are the focus of these discourses while trans boys and men are seemingly inconsequential. Trans exclusionary policies tug at feminist theory’s unfinished work of claiming that sex is a social construction. Like bathrooms and military service, sports are increasingly a terrain upon which conservative voices insist on the naturalness of sex segregation.

Although sex and gender are central topics in feminist and queer sports studies, sport and physical recreation are still relatively underexamined in the field of transgender studies. Queer and trans studies of sport participation have often been the “special issue” in sports studies journals. Our conception of “The Sports Issue” of TSQ turns the intellectual tables to examine sports from critical trans perspectives. Given modern sport’s emergent and ongoing role in bringing capitalist, white supremacist, colonial and heteropatriarchal social forces into an assemblage of play, critical trans scholarship is particularly well positioned to unpack its social, political, economic, and cultural manifestations and implications. We invite sports studies scholars and trans studies scholars alike to theorize and examine trans phenomena in competitive athletics, physical culture, and any other sports-related activities.

Contributions might address but are not limited to:

• Trans exclusionary feminist discourse in sport
• Transfeminist science and technology studies of sports
• Gender labor, athletic labor
• Disability and trans embodiment in sports
• Scientific racism within trans and intersex medical models applied in sports
• Radical alternatives to gender normativity in sports
• Relationship between trans and intersex in sports
• Moving beyond human rights rhetoric when it comes to trans athletes
• Sports as a mode of resistance and survival

Editorial Team:
Travers is a trans scholar who has published extensively on trans issues and sport; indeed, they provided the keyword entry for “sport” in the inaugural issue of TSQ.
CJ Jones is a PRODiG Postdoctoral Fellow at Purchase College, SUNY and is working on a book project tentatively titled Governing Bodies: Trans Politics, Embodiment, and Critique in Sports.

We welcome submissions from 1000 to 8000 words in length that engage a wide range of methods, disciplines, lineages, and practices. The deadline for submissions is April 29, 2022. 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: Travers (atravers@sfu.ca) and CJ Jones (cj.jones@purchase.edu). We plan to respond to submissions in June and July 2022. Final revisions will be due by August 26, 2022. 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. visit our website

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