Hello!

[B.]

I spent so much time typing this up but it was all lost because I hadn't verified my email. I'll keep it brief.

1. I'm an educator and researcher in trans studies in the women's and gender studies program at Brooklyn College. My name is B. I am nonbinary and trans feminine. Pronouns: they/them.

2. I love theory, historical fiction, and all things critical queer/trans studies.

3. I am currently finishing my first book manuscript called The Trans Ordinary (SUNY Press) so most of what I am reading these days is either theory-heavy or my own assembled archive of trans testimonies (diaries, poems, short stories, and other documentary texts) to explore the everydayness of life- and world-constructing practices among US-based trans communities. I have published journal articles and essays, encyclopedia articles, and a book chapter on trans life (check out my co-authored chapter in LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader called "Politics Outside the Law.")

4. My favorite theory-scholars: Michel Foucault, Lauren Berlant, Eve K. Sedgwick, Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, W.E.B. DuBois, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Christina Sharpe, Audre Lorde, Raymond Williams, and Karl Marx.

5. My favorite author-scholars: Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Audre Lorde, and Claudia Rankine.

Honestly, this list is so incomplete. I love discussions of theory that locate practice and everyday life as central.

Thank you for reading this far if you made it! I hope to engage in discussions and the occasional book rec.

-BLHA

[Greg]

B wrote: "I spent so much time typing this up but it was all lost because I hadn't verified my email. I'll keep it brief.

1. I'm an educator and researcher in trans studies in the women's and gender studies..."

Welcome B!

Woolf, Lorde, Hurston, Butler, and Morrison are all great! The others you mention I haven't read enough of to really know. I'll look for their work.

Hope you enjoy the group!

[B.]

Greg wrote: Welcome B!

Woolf, Lorde, Hurston, Butler, and Morrison are all great! The others you mention I haven't read enough of to really know. I'll look for their work.

Hope you enjoy the group!

Thank you for the kind welcome! Saidiya Hartman is...I can't even do a description justice.

[Greg]

B wrote: "Thank you for the kind welcome! Saidiya Hartman is...I can't even do a description justice."

Thanks B! I'll look for her work. Is there a particular book you recommend to start?

[B.]

Greg wrote: "B wrote: "Thank you for the kind welcome! Saidiya Hartman is...I can't even do a description justice."

Thanks B! I'll look for her work. Is there a particular book you recommend to start?"

I would suggest Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, with the TW and CW that racial and sexual violence are part of many discussions of the book. It's a powerful narrative/historical analysis.

[Greg]

Thanks B!