Transgender Studies Quarterly

While co-editing a special transgender studies issue of ''Women's Studies Quarterly'' in 2008, Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah recognized the need for a publication dedicated to the topic: They received more than 200 submissions, but were only able to publish 12. They received more than US$10,000 in donations in the first five days; by the end of the campaign, the journal had nearly $25,000 in crowdfunded capital. The first call for submissions drew a considerable amount of interest. The editors received so many submissions, they expanded the first issue into a book-length double issue containing 86 essays. The title of the first issue, "Postposttranssexual", alludes to Sandy Stone's 1987 article "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", which has been called the start of transgender studies. Each essay in this issue focuses on key concepts within transgender studies. ==Scope and content==

In the introduction to the first issue, Currah and Stryker announce that they intend the journal to be a gathering place for different ideas within the field of transgender studies, and affirm that they embrace multiple definitions of transgender. Most issues of TSQ have a theme. Among the themes of past issues are Trans Futures (November 2019), Trans-in-Asia (August 2018), "Trans/Feminisms" (May 2016), and the Issue of Blackness (May 2017). ==See also==