For this special issue of TSQ, we solicit work that critically interrogates the relationship between transgender and religion, broadly construed, as well as work that explicitly articulates the fields of transgender studies and religious studies with one another.
Trans* studies has been intertwined with religion and religious studies since its inception: some of the earliest work in transgender studies directly challenged models for understanding transgender experience derived from transphobic scholars of religion, while more recently religious studies has been a fruitful space for considering questions central to contemporary transgender scholarship: questions of materiality and immateriality, the categories of ethics and aesthetics, the constitution of the human, and processes of embodiment. Religion, as well as religious studies, can offer intellectual, conceptual and affective resources for a transgender critique of oppressive forms of power/knowledge invested in the medico-scientific worldview of secular Western modernity. And yet, the legacy of transphobia within various religious traditions and within religious studies as an interdisciplinary field subverts a deeper conversation between the religion and transgender. What assumptions, narratives, terms, and frames need to be challenged, what new categories and methodologies need to be explored, in order to fully occupy the nexus of trans*/religion?
Deadline: March 1, 2018
The expected length for scholarly articles is 5000 to 7000 words and 1000 to 2000 words for shorter works. All manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous peer review with scholarly citations in Chicago author-date citation style. Any questions should be addressed by e-mail to both guest editors for the issue: Max Strassfeld (mstrassfeld[@]email.arizona.edu) and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza (robyn.henderson-espinoza[@]vanderbilt.edu). We plan to respond to submissions by July 2018. Final revisions will be due by September 1st 2018. TSQ accepts submissions without regard to academic affiliation or rank; artists, activists, and graduate students are also welcome to submit materials for consideration.
To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/tsq.
