Learning from Queer and Trans Studies

D. Chase J. Catalano is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. His research explores power dynamics within, and liberatory possibilities for, higher education with a focus on LGBTQ+ social justice educational interventions (e.g., Safe Zones trainings) and trans and queer center(ed) diversity workers.Andrea N. Baldwin is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah, USA. Her interdisciplinary scholarship engages Black, decolonial, transnational, and Caribbean feminist epistemologies; environmental and digital humanities; and queer of color critique.Chris A. Barcelos is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and the founding director of the minor degree program in Queer and Trans Studies.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionD. Chase J. Catalano, Andrea N. Baldwin, Chris A. BarcelosPART IIdentity1 Who is Trans and Queer Studies For? Shuli BransonPART IIPower2 Dissidentification Jessennya Hernandez3 The Joy & Fury Framework: A Methodological Approach to Trans HistorySascha Darlington & Kim Hackford-PeerPART IIIBodies and Embodiment4 Health Christine Labuski 5 Triangulating Disability, Queer, and Trans Studies Suisui Wang PART IVTime, Space, and Place6 Migrations and MobilitiesNana Afua Brantuo 7 Family and Kinship: The Role of Families in LGBTQ+ Liberation Derek Seigel8 Coming (In and) Out (of Time) in Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori's Fun HomeCaitlin A. KanePART VLiberatory Possibilities and Joy9 Queer & Trans Affect: Queer & Trans Joy as Sites of ResistanceCasey Anne Brimmer10 The Digitally Queer Homeplace: Very Demure, Very Unstoppable Vivian B. Lee11 Queering Educational Practices & Pedagogies: What Queer and Trans Liberation Looks and Feels Like in Education Justin A. Gutzwa & Quortne R. HutchingsPART VIResistance12 Good Luck and Don't Fuck It Up (for the Culture): On RuPaul's Drag Race, the Meaning of Drag and How Not to Treat Queer Communities of Color Julian Kevon Kamilah Glover13 Querying/Queering How We Think About Sex Education: (Re)Imagining the Possibilities of Confidence, Consent, Care and Contentment Ocqua Gerlyn Murrell14 In Response to Having No Name in the Classroom: Abolitionist Feminist and Mutual Aid Ruptures for Queer and Trans Studies Cydney Caradonna, Epilogue: Now what? What's learned here and leaves here D. Chase J. Catalano, Andrea N. Baldwin, Chris A. Barcelos, Index