“After Trans Studies” by Andrea Long Chu and Emmet Harsin Drager (2019)
- “Trans studies is over,” and in need of a necessary overhaul
- Trans studies lacks proper field definition, especially as distinct from queer theory
- Trans studies constraints conversations about trans (especially “transsexual”) lives
- Chu in particular calls for production of theory through strife / argumentation
“Before Trans Studies” by Cassius Adair, et. al. (2020)
- A response to After Trans Studies (2019) by Chu and Drager
- Trans studies isn’t “over”, in fact, in many places, it hasn’t really begun
- The main impediment to the progress of trans studies is the precarity most trans people face as well as institutional resistance
- So, rather than being a space of harsh argumentation, trans studies should be a space of care and solidarity
“Trans* Studies Now” by Susan Stryker (2020) “Whither Trans Studies?” by Kadji Amin (2023)