1st Edition
Learning from Queer and Trans Studies An Introduction
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
D. Chase J. Catalano, Andrea N. Baldwin, Chris A. Barcelos
Chapter 1: Who is Trans and Queer Studies For?
Shuli Branson
Chapter 2: Dissidentification
Jessennya Hernandez
Chapter 3: The Joy & Fury Framework: A Methodological Approach to Trans History
Sascha Darlington & Kim Hackford-Peer
Chapter 4: Health
Christine Labuski
Chapter 5: Triangulating Disability, Queer, and Trans Studies
Suisui Wang
Chapter 6: Migrations and Mobilities
Nana Afua Brantuo
Chapter 7: Family and Kinship: The Role of Families in LGBTQ+ Liberation
Derek Seigel
Chapter 8: Coming (In and) Out (of Time) in Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori’s Fun Home
Caitlin A. Kane
Chapter 9: Queer & Trans Affect: Queer & Trans Joy as Sites of Resistance
Casey Anne Brimmer
Chapter 10: The Digitally Queer Homeplace: Very Demure, Very Unstoppable
Vivian B. Lee
Chapter 11: Queering Educational Practices & Pedagogies: What Queer and Trans Liberation Looks and Feels Like in Education
Justin A. Gutzwa & Quortne R. Hutchings
Chapter 12: Good Luck and Don’t Fuck It Up (for the Culture): On RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Meaning of Drag and How Not to Treat Queer Communities of Color
Julian Kevon Kamilah Glover
Chapter 13: Querying/Queering How We Think About Sex Education: (Re)Imagining the Possibilities of Confidence, Consent, Care and Contentment
Ocqua Gerlyn Murrell
Chapter 14: In Response to Having No Name in the Classroom: Abolitionist Feminist and Mutual Aid Ruptures for Queer and Trans Studies
Cydney Caradonna
Epilogue: Now what? What’s learned here and leaves here
D. Chase J. Catalano, Andrea N. Baldwin, Chris A. Barcelos
Index
Biography
D. Chase J. Catalano is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. His research explores power dynamics within, and liberatory possibilities for, higher education with a focus on LGBTQ+ social justice educational interventions (e.g., Safe Zones trainings) and trans and queer center(ed) diversity workers.
Andrea N. Baldwin is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah, USA. Her interdisciplinary scholarship engages Black, decolonial, transnational, and Caribbean feminist epistemologies; environmental and digital humanities; and queer of color critique.
Chris A. Barcelos is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and the founding director of the minor degree program in Queer and Trans Studies.
