By Treva Ellison, Kai M. Green, Matt Richardson, and C. Riley Snorton, 2017
To what extent does transgender theorizing in the academy circulate as grand theory, subtended and overseen by the Man and all his baggage, and to what extent does it participate in critical minoritarian discourse and contribute to the livability of lives ranked less worthy of living according to Man’s mis- measures? This is the tension that frames this issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, “The Issue of Blackness,” guest edited by Treva Ellison, Kai M. Green, C. Riley Snorton, and Matt Richardson.