How We Make Each Other

Perry Zurn is Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry, coauthor of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, and coeditor of Trans Philosophy.

• Preface  viiAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Of Small Places and Edge Ecologies  1Part I1. Problematizing Trans Inclusion  212. Becoming a Trans Problem  353. Mobilizing Trans Poetics  49Part II4. Attunements to Trans History  655. Dust  836. Stash  957. Scatter  107Part III8. Attunements to Trans Resistance  1219. Thread  13510. Glue 14911. Pebble  161Part IV.12 Attunements to Trans Hope  17513. Fatigue  19114. Risk  20315. World  213Coda  227Epilogue  235Chronology  239Bibliography  277Index  301

“Trans life grows in impossible places. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn charts a rhizomatic story of how trans life in excess of liberal scripts of inclusion has and might yet grow in the university-one such impossible place. I cannot wait to teach this book, to nourish and provide historicity to my students’ agitation, their unruly sociality, and their sense that another university is possible---is, in fact, what they make together every day.” - Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of (The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment) “In giving careful attention to the ingenuity and radicality of trans makers and movements, Perry Zurn is simultaneously documenting and creating new epistemologies of transness. He helps us read transness in the university not as a problem but as a jubilant more-ness beyond the dichotomy of problem and solution. In his compelling, lovely, and often heartbreaking renderings, trans life is a form of creation that draws on direct action, linguistic experimentation, and joyful solidarity to find alliances and forge community. This book will be cherished and loved by many people for a very long time to come.” - Gayle Salamon, author of (The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia) “This book is lovely! Perry Zurn has an unusually graceful way with words, and what he’s saying is powerful stuff.” - Sandy Stone, author, artist, performer, engineer, and debonair trans-about-town