Terrible We

Cameron Awkward-Rich is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Dispatch and Sympathetic Little Monster.

• Preface/Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: On Staying with the Terrible We  11. Disabled Histories of Trans  31Holding Space  612. Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual  673. Some Dissociative Trans Masc Poetics  894. We's Company  117Afterword/Elegy  143Notes  151Bibliography  171Index  187

“The Terrible We serves as an important guide for those interested in new ways of viewing trans life in both its positive and negative aspects and those wanting to use everyday archives in a method that is more interested in fractures and gaps rather than acceptance and completion.” - Jacob Debrock (TSQ) "While the interruption of trans thought’s methodological distancing from disability is the central project of The Terrible We, a key intervention is also the book’s framing of the relation between trans and feminist thought. Awkward-Rich traces the tense relation between them, and reads this relation from the position of depression." - Stephanie Clare (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "One might not expect a book about bad feelings and mad habits to be a joy to read, but The Terrible We is beautifully written and important. . . . Honest, patient, and calling the reader to critically revisit how the splitting of trans from madness and disability has robbed trans discourse of important history and also depth, The Terrible We is a challenging and very much necessary book relevant to several intersecting constituencies and academic disciplines." - Claudia Schippert (Lateral)