...This chapter explores embodied male femininity through an analysis of accounts of real male pregnancies of trans men and transmasculine individuals and fictional representations of imagined male pregnancies of cisgender men. Male pregnancy offers unexpected, evocative reconfigurations of gender...

... guys was important to Raeyun and Ostrich, they both took on the responsibility of seeking out workarounds from teachers who did not initially understand them as trans. Through talking about their transness with teachers, Raeyun and Ostrich distinguished 71 themselves as students requiring...

... parts of their genders to share depending on their awareness of East City High’s cisheteronormativity. Beyond those two, complicated practices, I discussed how gender-nonconforming youth actively intervened at East City High. This final form was the labor they performed to desire their transness...

... interest; and the use of intersectional claims. Americans with Disabilities Act ADA civil procedure class actions disability disability employment class actions discrimination equal employment opportunity EEO Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP Rules Enabling Act 1934 trans substantivity ideal...

...The conclusion synthesizes the major themes and findings of the book, highlighting the limits as well as the great liberating potential of the trans-affirmative parenting phenomenon. All of these themes mark critical aspects of the new trans-affirmative parenting paradigm among twenty-first-century...

...This chapter uses interdisciplinary approaches to examine the theoretical and lived realities of queer and trans* people of color (QTPOC). Highlighting the concepts of identity performance, language, and legibility, the chapter reveals the sociocultural experiences that racial, gender, and sexual...

... of a year’s reflection—and her “trans-racial” subject position. He reads it, as she did, through the experiences of Caitlyn Jenner, the trans-gender sports figure. He asks what it means to celebrate racial self-fashioning as if it were akin to gender transitioning and thinks about the broader cultural...

... diaspora Anarkia Boladona “@GraffitiHerstory” Instagram project Charmin all grrl paint jams Ephemerality Trans Studies Archive Performative Graffiti Memory Subculture Graffiti is a means of expression. It is a way to externalize whatever your feelings are. From the beginning that was the purpose...

...This chapter shows the first way that LGBTQ people do conflict work to stay in the family: avoiding rejection and conflict by never coming out of the closet at all. The chapter describes three types of closets used as conflict work to keep the family bonded—dad’s closet, the trans-itional closet...

... focus on picture books by and about queer and trans of color authors. Millán then introduces the theoretical contribution of this book, the hermeneutic of autofantasía. She ends by describing how each chapter of Coloring into Existence presents a unique vantage point for analyzing queer...

... should be considered prerequisite to claiming trans identity. So-called “truscum” or “transmedicalists”—both terms originally coined on Tumblr ( Wijnants 2013 )—assert that body dysphoria defines trans experience, and that those who claim transness in the absence of body dysphoria...

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... their anxieties over not being “trans enough” and how they turned to scientific explanations of transness for validation. I explore their external labor through their work navigating pronouns and grappling with fashion choices. Confronting dominant views of gender legibility at East City High was exhausting...

...For decades, caring adults have understood trans and gender-nonconforming youth as especially at-risk in schools. As a result, they have worked to create inclusive policies to accommodate, protect, and safeguard these young people from the increased challenges they are presumed to encounter...

... for American independence and the emerging era of trans-Atlantic migration. At the same time that large numbers resettled in the United States, European sovereigns refused to recognize any transfer of allegiance. Those who were naturalized as U.S. citizens were saddled with birth allegiance, with dual...

..., and potential impact of picture books by and about queer and trans of color authors. Millán engages LGBTQ+ picture books through the hermeneutic of autofantasía, a framework developed throughout the book that usefully entangles fiction and nonfiction. The author theorizes autofantasía as (1) a literary genre...

...This chapter considers the tensions between the terms "Two-Spirit" and "trans" and analyzes Oji-Cree author Joshua Whitehead's novel Jonny Appleseed. Reading through the lens of felt theory, Tatonetti shows how the dreamscapes of Jonny Appleseed allow Whitehead...

.... The need for knowability invests in societal expectations of transness that continue to privilege the gender binary. In Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid, I explore the relationship between understanding trans identity as risky and adults’ interactions with gender-nonconforming youth...

... and struggles that are deemed inseparable from being gender nonconforming. Ms. O’Connor understood Ostrich’s gender nonconformity as intensifying his vulnerability because transness was largely not desired at East City High. For a student like Ostrich, who was positioned as always already struggling, being...

...Trans and gender-nonconforming youth worked hard every day to navigate the transphobic elements of East City High. However, they likewise performed the labor of world-making, which was aimed at creating other, queerer spaces in the school where they could exist outside and in rejection of adults...