TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Over the past two decades, transgender studies has embraced new approaches to cultural analysis. 

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have yet to be addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. 

Its mission is to foster a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists, and others that examines how "transgender" comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.

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To view the latest issue or subscribe to TSQ, visit the Duke University Press. They also offer a full catalog of past issues.

Background

TSQ was established in 2014 as the first non-medical, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to transgender studies. While the field had been developing for decades, the launching of this journal, published by Duke University Press, signaled the dynamic growth of interdisciplinary transgender studies in the 21st century. Since then, TSQ had institutional affiliations at both University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico prior to making its home with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford in 2025. Read the announcement about the Clayman Institute's partnership with TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.