Transitioning

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

• 1. Transition Inside Out / 2. T: Informed Material / 3. Counternarrative / 4. Thresholds: Gender In The Wild / 5. Assembling Transition / Bibliography / Index

In this conceptually and ethnographically rich exercise in thinking "with" transgender rather than thinking "about" transgender, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo explores how "transitioning" is not something only trans people do in the process of moving away from their birth-assigned sex. It is something that all materiality does--perpetually, inexorably, unavoidably--in the ever-unfolding dynamic processes of being. Gonzalez-Polledo superbly demonstrates in Transitioning how manifesting this ontological flux can be a danger trans people face when they destablize gender for others, as well as a gift they give that can open the world in profound and unexpected ways. Read this book if you've ever wondered how deep the transgender rabbit-hole can go.