ASTERISK: Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After

ASTERISK is a book series that takes transgender studies beyond transgender—and beyond gender—as its privileged object of analysis. In focusing on the conceptual and methodological operations signaled by the prefix trans- and its grammatical capacity to attach to innumerable suffixed terms, ASTERISK puts transgender into conversation with whatever can come after trans-. It places particular emphasis on articulating transness with other modes of embodiment that are marginalized through racialization, attribution of disability, and the ascription of a less than human status. At the same time, ASTERISK foregrounds a trans perspective that too often falls between the cracks of contemporary queer and feminist frameworks.