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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

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Current Volume: 13

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Over the past two decades, transgender studies has become fertile ground for new approaches to cultural analysis. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. Its mission is to foster a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists, and others that examines how “transgender” comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research’s sponsorship and hosting of the TSQ editorial office as well as the TEN:TACLES Initiative for its financial support.
 

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Editorial Office:
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Stanford University
Carolyn Lewis Attneave House
589 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8640
tsqjournal@gmail.com
https://gender.stanford.edu/tsq

Executive Editors:
Dylan McCarthy Blackston, New Mexico State University
micha cárdenas, University of California, Santa Cruz
 
General Editors:
Ciara Cremin, University of Auckland
PJ DiPietro, Syracuse University 
Cole Rizki, University of Virginia
Jeanne Vaccaro, University of Kansas
 
Founding Editors:
Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Susan Stryker, Stanford University
 
Managing Editor:
Don Romesburg, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
 
Book Review Editor:
LaVelle Ridley, Ohio State University
 
Arts & Culture Editor:
Syrus Marcus Ware, McMaster University
 
Translation Editor:
Cole Rizki, University of Virginia
 
Editorial Board:
Kadji Amin, Emory University
Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Marquis Bey, Northwestern University
Lucas Crawford, University of New Brunswick
Kale B. Fajardo, University of Minnesota
Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, California State University, Chico
David Gramling, University of Arizona
Emma Heaney, William Paterson University
LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Georgetown University 
Joseph Pierce, Stony Brook University 
Jake Pyne, York University 
Jordy Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eliza Steinbock, Leiden University
McKenzie Wark, The New School
 

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Visit the TSQ home page to see calls for papers for upcoming issues. Essays should be submitted for review to the journal's online peer-review site. We do not accept submissions of previously published work. Neither do we accept submissions that are under review or have been accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal uses the author-date form of citation as described in The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., chaps. 13–14. To facilitate the anonymous review process, please provide your name, affiliation, contact information, and any other identifying information on a separate cover page, and be sure that citations to your own work are worded to maintain your anonymity. Consult the TSQ style guide for more information about formatting and style.

We also welcome proposals for special issues on a particular theme. Visit the home page of the TSQ editorial office for information about submitting a proposal for a special issue.

Contact the appropriate review or subject editor if you have a proposal or inquiry regarding a potential review subject. Please do not submit unsolicited reviews.

Arts & Culture Editor: Jeanne Vaccaro, jeannevaccaro@ku.edu.

Translation Editor: Cole Rizki, cr3np@virginia.edu.

Book Review Editor: LaVelle Ridley, laridley@berkeley.edu.

Books for review may be sent to
LaVelle Ridley
286K University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

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Indexed/abstracted in the following: Emerging Sources Citation Index, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) PLUS, Feminist Periodicals, Gender Studies Database, IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, LGBTQ+ Source, MainFile, Scopus, TOC Premier, Ulrichsweb, Web of Science.

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ISSN: 2328-9252

e-ISSN: 2328-9260