Founded in 2017, the Trans Studies Reading Group is a monthly online get-together for students, scholars, and activists to read and discuss the latest publications in Transgender Studies.
Our 2026-2027 plans include:
- Thursday, September 24, 2:00-3:30PM ET: Susan Stryker’s Changing Gender (2026)
If you want to join us, please email laura.horak@carleton.ca.
Past readings have included:
- “The Issue of Blackness” Transgender Studies Quarterly special issue
- Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (2017)
- Cáel M. Keegan’s Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender (2018)
- Gayle Salamon’s The Life and Death of Latisha King (2018)
- C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017)
- Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven (2017)
- Toby Beachamp’s Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices (2019)
- “Trans Futures” TSQ special issue
- Ivan Coyote’s Rebent Sinner (2019)
- Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images (2019)
- Hil Malatino’s Trans Care (2020)
- McKenzie Wark’s Reverse Cowgirl (2020)
- Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) (2020)
- Torrey Peter’s Detransition, Baby (2021)