Publication Title

Transgender Studies Quarterly

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Publication Date

8-1-2020

Keywords

embodied knowledges, institutionalization, theorizing, transgender studies

Abstract

This essay considers the origins, intentions, and potential of transgender studies. As the field becomes increasingly institutionalized, is transgender studies capable of honoring the embodied knowledges from which it originates and, if so, how? The author suggests orientations that foreground the relevance, reciprocity, and accessibility of transgender studies for the very people whose lives and experiences the field transmutes into scholarship. The author draws from Dora Silva Santana s papo-de-mano and escrevivencia and Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison s "tranifesting" approaches that demonstrate that, in fact, transgender studies can do redress, tenderness, and love in the service of both knowledge production and resistance.

Copyright Note

This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Bates College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Required Publisher's Statement

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8553076

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