"Before Trans Studies" (with Cameron Awkward-Rich and Amy Marvin)

My collaborative essay with Cameron Awkward-Rich and Amy Marvin was one of the top five most-read articles in Transgender Studies Quarterly for the year 2020. That means it will be intermittently open-access; you can also always email me and I’ll send you a copy.

There’s a lot more I could say about this essay, including the fact that I don’t want it to be understood primarily as a rejoinder to Andrea Long Chu and Emmett Harsin Drager’s “After Trans Studies” (although, of course, it is explicitly in conversation with that piece). Instead, I hope it is read as much as a larger meditation on how academic knowledge and field formation are effects of the material conditions of academic laborers.