ABSTRACT

Trans and queer people have long both been written about and written about themselves in popular nonfiction prose. Indeed, nonfiction prose’s sense of immediacy and materiality insists on self-defined reality of people who challenge conventional notions of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race, disability, class, geography, size, immigration status, and employment—daring to imagine what a thriving self and community can look like. In exploring this body of work as well as the bodies in this work, the vital scholarship of each article takes up the issue’s theme by affirming, in unexpected and shifting ways, that, for queer and trans writers, the struggle has always been real and the hustle has always been deep.

摘要

长期以来，跨性别者和酷儿们都在流行的非小说散文中被描写和描写自己。事实上，非虚构散文的即时性和物质性坚持挑战人们对性别、性取向、性别表达、种族、残疾、阶级、地理、体型、移民身份和就业等传统观念的自我定义的现实——敢于想象蓬勃发展的自我和社区可以看起来像。在探索这部作品以及这部作品中的身体时，每篇文章的重要学术研究都以出乎意料和不断变化的方式肯定了这个问题的主题，即对于酷儿和跨性别作家来说，斗争一直是真实的和喧嚣一直很深。