A review by hannscurlock
Trans, Volume 3: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability by Jack Halberstam

5.0

I love Jack Halberstam's definition of trans* as a systemic and broad category, as opposed to transgender. While the term transgender has been a helpful term for many to understand themselves better, it is also notoriously known to collapse a wide umbrella of gender variant experiences into a single word—reeking of binary, colonial, and pathologizing discourse. Leading queer theory scholar, Jack Halberstam articulates the wide range of trans* experiences while also highlighting the danger of neoliberal identity politics. I will be coming back to this one regularly for my research.