As such, the abjection of others serves to maintain or reinforce boundaries that are threatened. In a broader sense, the term refers to the process by which identificatory regimes exclude subjects that they render unintelligible or beyond classification. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.Ībjection refers to the vague sense of horror that permeates the boundary between the self and the other. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies.
Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.