Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities Devon W. Carbado developing the concept of the

developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear

and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille

Her former friend Bebe is a people-pleaser—a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition

and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside

but Kit succumbed to his illness in 2015

Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities Devon W. Carbado developing the concept of theHow the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and race In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black? Taking the