CALL FOR ARTICLES for a new anthology, Outside the Gender Box: Trans and Non-Binary
Gender People in U.S. Higher Education. Genny Beemyn is editing this first
anthology on the experiences of trans and non-binary gender students, staff,
and faculty. See below to learn more about the anthology and to submit an article.
Call for Articles:
Outside the Gender Box: Trans and Non-Binary Gender People in U.S. Higher Education
To be published by SUNY Press
Edited by Genny Beemyn, Ph.D.
Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2016
Students
applying to college and new campus employees are immediately confronted
by the lack of trans inclusiveness at most institutions when they fill
out a form that
asks them whether they are male or female. And this is just the start
of negative experiences in higher education for many trans and
non-binary gender people.
Outside the Gender Box will be the first anthology to focus on
the experiences of trans and non-binary gender students, staff, and
faculty. The book will be divided into four sections:
- research on trans college students and first-person narratives of being a trans student.
- research on trans college staff and faculty and first-person narratives of being a trans staff or faculty member.
- case studies of how individual campuses have changed policies and practices to become more welcoming to and inclusive of trans people.
- intersectional analyses of the experiences of trans students, staff, and faculty who also experience marginalization in other ways, such as by being people of color, people with disabilities, and people of non-Christian faiths.
Completed articles of approximately 15-20 pages (5,000-7,500 words) should be submitted by January 1, 2016 to genny@umass.edu. Contributors are welcomed to submit an
abstract for review sooner, if desired.
For
information about formatting and other manuscript guidelines, including
copyright requirements and the preparation of tables, figures, and
images, please see http://www.sunypress.edu/l-47-
Genny
Beemyn, Ph.D., is the director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst
and the coordinator of Campus Pride’s Trans Policy Clearinghouse. Dr.
Beemyn has written/edited
many works in LGBTQ+ Studies. They are the author of The Lives of Transgender People (with Sue Rankin; Columbia University Press, 2011);
A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C.
(Routledge, 2014); and Campus Queer:
The Experiences and Needs of LGBTQ+ College Students (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).
