Full Description
Trans people have always lived in the cracks of institutions-and the university is no exception. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn tells the stories of how trans people make and live their lives at the edges of the university in ways that sometimes lead to policy change but always leave participants and institutions different than they were before. Using the Five Colleges in Massachusetts as a case study, Zurn notes that Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, have been at the forefront of developing trans-inclusive policies in higher education, often in response to student organizing. Zurn focuses on the stories of trans students, staff, faculty, and community members within and alongside these institutions, exploring how they have built themselves and each other. Drawing on official archives as well as over 100 interviews, Zurn shows how trans people in the Five Colleges have made history, forged resistance habits, and cultivated hope.
Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Of Small Places and Edge Ecologies 1
Part I
1. Problematizing Trans Inclusion 21
2. Becoming a Trans Problem 35
3. Mobilizing Trans Poetics 49
Part II
4. Attunements to Trans History 65
5. Dust 83
6. Stash 95
7. Scatter 107
Part III
8. Attunements to Trans Resistance 121
9. Thread 135
10. Glue 149
11. Pebble 161
Part IV.
12 Attunements to Trans Hope 175
13. Fatigue 191
14. Risk 203
15. World 213
Coda 227
Epilogue 235
Chronology 239
Bibliography 277
Index 301
