Read to Respond: Trans Rights

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. This post focuses on trans rights in light of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, a day dedicated to drawing the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public, and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBTQIA+ people internationally. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Trans Rights

• “Introduction”
  Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 1, issue 1-2
  May 2014
• “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”
  Jasbir K. Puar
  Social Text, number 124
  September 2015
• “Once Out of Nature: Life Beyond the Gender Binary”
  Joy Ladin
  Tikkun, volume 28, issue 4
  Fall 2013
• Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
  David Valentine
  2007
• “From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology”
  Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley and Matt Richardson
  Small Axe, number 45
  November 2014
• “Radical Inclusion: Recounting the Trans Inclusive History of Radical Feminism”
  Cristan Williams
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 3, issue 1-2
  May 2016
• “Trans[ition] in Iran”
  Rochelle Terman
  World Policy Journal, volume 31, issue 1
  Spring 2014
• Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
  Afsaneh Najmabadi
  2013
• “Staging the Trans Sex Worker”
  Nihils Rev and Fiona Maeve Geist
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, issue 1
  February 2017
• Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
  Dean Spade
  2015

These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.