Global Trans Histories (PDFs)
Class readings in order of when they were assigned.
Laurie Marhoefer, “Lesbianism, Transvestitism, and the Nazi State: A Microhistory of a Gestapo Investigation, 1939–1943” (2016)
Katie Sutton, “Sexology’s Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany” (2018)
Evan B. Towle and Lynn Marie Morgan, “Romancing The Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept” (2002)
Aniruddha Dutta and Raina Roy, “Decolonizing Transgender in India, Some Reflections” (2014)
Qwo-Li Driskill, “Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies” (2010)
Qwo-Li Driskill, Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer & Two Spirit Memory (2016)
Kai Pyle, “Naming and Claiming: Recovering Ojibwe and Plains Cree Two-Spirit Language” (2018)
Megan J. Sinnott, Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand (2004)
Howard Chiang, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (2018)
Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Mapping Transformations Of Sex, Gender, And Sexuality In Modern Iran” (2005)
Cece McDonald, “Go beyond our natural selves: The Prison Letters of Cece McDonald” (2017)
Kai M. Green and Marquis Bey, "Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet: A Conversation" (2018)
Cassius Adair, “Licensing Citizenship: Anti-Blackness, ID Documents, and Transgender Studies” (2019)
Cole Rizki, “Latin/x American Trans Studies” (2019)
Hillary Hiner and Juan Carlos Garrido, “Antitrans State Terrorism: Trans and Travesti Women, Human Rights, and Recent History in Chile” (2019)
Susana Pena, “Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transexual Activists” (2010)