Trans Studies

YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL is a professor of Latino studies and comparative literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of several books including From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context.  SARAH TOBIAS is the associate director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, where she serves as affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous publications, including the book Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families.   

Acknowledgments
 Introduction      Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities             Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias
 Part I                 Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces
 Chapter 1         Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus             Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin
 Chapter 2        Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education             Pauline Park
 Part II                 Trans Imaginaries
 Chapter 3         “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change             Lucas Crawford
 Chapter 4         Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican             Keja Valens
 Chapter 5         TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy             Jian Chen
 Part III                 Crossing Borders/Crossing Gender
 Chapter 6         When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics             Toby Beauchamp
 Chapter 7         Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival             Nora Butler Burke
 Chapter 8         Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression             Aren Z. Aizura
 Part IV                Trans Activism and Policy
 Chapter 9         The “T” in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)?             Mickael Chacha Enriquez
 Chapter 10       Translatina Is About the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco             Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruíz and Marcia Ochoa
 Chapter 11       LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy             Jody L. Herman
 Part V                Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy
 Chapter 12      Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes             Sel J. Hwahng
 Chapter 13      Stick Figures and Pronouns: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy             A. Finn Enke
 Conclusion      Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination             Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias

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