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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to transgender studies with an emphasis on cultural studies and the humanities.[1] It is currently published by the Duke University Press [LINK] and it is the first non-medical journal in this area.[2] The first issue was published in May 2014.

The founding editors-in-chief are Susan Stryker [LINK] (founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at University of Arizona) and Paisley Currah [Link] (professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City of New York).[3] Stryker and Currah continue to serve as the editors-in-chief.

Stryker and Currah were alerted to realized the need for such a journal in 2008, when they co-edited a special transgender studies issue of Women's Studies Quarterly [LINK?].[3][4] They needed 12 articles but received more than 200 submissions.[1][3] In May 2013, they started a month-long Kickstarter campaign to help fund the journal.[5] They received more than US$10,000 in donations in the first five days; by the end of the campaign, the journal had nearly US$25,000 in crowdfunded capital.[5][6]

Contents 1 	Background 2	Publication history 2	See also 3	References 4	External links

Background: Transgender studies, as addressed in the TSQ, is an interdisciplinary field that took shape out of preexisting fields of study that inadequately addressed, or were occasionally outright hostile towards, the academic needs of the trans* community. These fields include feminist studies, disability studies, queer studies, and critical race studies. Trans* studies scholars have noted that the TSQ provides a space to break away from any understanding of intellectual disciplines as discrete objects of study exclusive to the population to whom the discipline was designed to serve while also allowing trans* folk to cite themselves appropriately as they tell their personal narratives and/or write from a scholarly perspective. In their coauthored piece “How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies research articles,” scholars Katja Thieme and Mary Ann S. Saunders highlight the ways in which citation, quotation, and parenthetical practices contribute to an increased understanding of trans identities whilst making the scholarship more personal. The discipline as it is explored upon in the TSQ is relatively new (as academic Jack Halberstam notes and Stryker and Currah write in their maiden introduction to the journal, Sandy Stone is largely credited with its’ creation in 1991), transgender studies has been institutionalized since at least the middle of the twentieth century. Historically the approach to trans studies was almost entirely medicalized,. Commentators have noted that the newly formed discipline calls for more inclusivity than its’ predecessor. The medicalized and pathologically oriented International Journal of Transgenderism was the only journal dedicated to the field until the TSQ’s publication. TSQ is intended to serve as a uniquely interdisciplinary academic resource that focuses on inclusivity, diversity, and real-lived experience.

Publication history In 2013, Duke University Press announced their intention to publish the journal. The first call for submissions drew a considerable amount of interest.[6] As such, the first issue was expanded into a book-length double issue comprising 86 essays.[6][7] The first issue is titled “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies”, in light of Sandy Stone’s seminal piece having been titled “The ‘Empire’ Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto.” The issue explored how the field has developed and how it continues to develop, while also addresses potential points of contention such as the institutionalization of academic professions as exclusionary and the emphasis on identity politics.

Only two issues were published in 2016, as they were both double issues.[8] The May 2016 issue on Trans/Feminisms spoke explicitly to the interdisciplinary nature of the field as Stryker calls for the importance of acknowledging intersectionality.

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