Tranimalities..seeks to attend to the trans-dimensions of recent critical moves beyond the human. With works like Queering the Non/Human (Nora Giffney and Myra Hird, eds., 2008), Animal Others (special issue of Hypatia, 2012; Lori Gruen and Kari Weil, eds.), the Queer Inhumanisms (special issue of GLQ, forthcoming, Mel Y. Chen and Dana Luciano, eds.), and Tranimacies: Intimate Links Between Affect, Animals, and Trans* Studies; forthcoming, Eliza Steinbock, Marianna Szczygielska, and Anthony Wagner, eds.) providing some of the groundwork, TSQ’s special issue Tranimalities aims to contribute a specifically trans intervention into the discussion of the anti-, non-, in-, and posthuman.

We invite submissions of scholarly essays that address these and related issues.

Potential topics might include:

Transgendered posthumous life– what becomes of trans not only in the death of Man but also in the death of life?

“Transbiologicial body”: How are nonhumans contingent forms of trans bodies? Or, how does the trans body disrupt “the human”?

The animalization of trans populations as intersected with race, sexuality, nation, ability, and class

Transgendered anthropocene

Trans-species forms of hormonal and surgical lives

Becoming (with) trans-species

Transecologies and transenvironmentalisms: Does trans reinvigorate commitments to critiquing environmental racisms and classisms?

Posthuman trans embodiment and/or materiality – How does a special focus on matter and materiality transform trans understandings of bodies?

Is there a particular trans concept of affect?

Globalization and colonization, and the problematic of transing human/animal life?

The transanimal dimensions of political injustice and exploitation

What becomes of gender and, in turn, transgender in the absence of a human perspective?

Tranimalities and socialities

Trananimalities and engagement with disability studies

Multispecies ethnographies of transspeciation

What can transgender theory offer to scholarship about other Others and, in particular, nonhuman animals?

How does the position of transgender as other than in-, non- or posthuman give theorists a unique perspective from which to reconsider earthly life?

Trans-fat, transdermal, transfection, transfusion, and transposons, the undoing/redoing of “the human”

Bestiality/zoophilia/ “furries” as tranimal erotic formations?

Could the move to transgenre and away from transgender provide a productive opening to theorize posthuman or posthumous transgender

Transgenics/transplantations—How does the social aesthetic of transness shape and reshape biopolitical life?

Species differences as sexual differences?

Please note that this list is not intended to be exhaustive.

To be considered for publication, please submit full articles by June 1, 2014 to tsqjournal@gmail.com. The expected range for scholarly articles is 5000 to 7000 words. Peer review will be conducted on all accepted submissions. Please prepare submissions for anonymous peer review by including your name, a brief bio, postal address, email address, and any institutional affiliation on a separate cover sheet. Please do not make references to yourself in the text, footnotes, or citations. We expect to give authors a response by August 15, 2014. Final revisions will be due by October 15, 2014.