Global Trans Studies

Trans(gender), non-binary, and genderqueer identities have global histories with specific vocabularies, knowledge systems, and critiques of normativities. Growing over the last several decades in Europe and North America as an important branch of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, trans studies continue to revolutionize intersectional inquiry and activist initiatives. In this seminar, students will be introduced to the foundational and genealogical roots of global trans studies as they emerge within critical race studies, Indigenous studies, medicine and technology, carcerality, care ethics, literature, and popular media with a particular focus on the contemporary period.