How We Make Each Other

Perry Zurn is Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry, coauthor of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, and coeditor of Trans Philosophy.

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

"Trans life grows in impossible places. In How We Make Each Other, Perry Zurn charts a rhizomatic story of how trans life in excess of liberal scripts of inclusion has and might yet grow in the university-one such impossible place. I cannot wait to teach this book, to nourish and provide historicity to my students' agitation, their unruly sociality, and their sense that another university is possible---is, in fact, what they make together every day." - Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of (The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment) "In giving careful attention to the ingenuity and radicality of trans makers and movements, Perry Zurn is simultaneously documenting and creating new epistemologies of transness. He helps us read transness in the university not as a problem but as a jubilant more-ness beyond the dichotomy of problem and solution. In his compelling, lovely, and often heartbreaking renderings, trans life is a form of creation that draws on direct action, linguistic experimentation, and joyful solidarity to find alliances and forge community. This book will be cherished and loved by many people for a very long time to come." - Gayle Salamon, author of (The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia) "This book is lovely! Perry Zurn has an unusually graceful way with words, and what he's saying is powerful stuff." - Sandy Stone, author, artist, performer, engineer, and debonair trans-about-town