Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, "The Transgender Studies Reader Remix" (Routledge, 2022)
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Trans Matters: A Reader's Guide
The whole reader is organized in 10 sections of five articles each, where each of the five articles are thematically grouped. There's this one section bringing together trans studies with critical race theory and studies of blackness and anti-blackness. And so that that is a trans movement to move across the boundary that limits you based on the inherited meanings assigned to your biological body. So I think something that brings together the idea of transness, like how can you look at transgender people and the work that we have done and expand that as kind of a heuristic or a method or an analysis for thinking about those practices more generally? It's like, I think that is, for me, the
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