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Abstract
This dialogue contends with the state of trans studies today. While the authors differ in their levels of optimism for its future, they both agree that if trans studies is to survive, it must be able articulate a fresh set of reading practices distinct from, or even at odds with, those of queer studies. Revisiting Sandy Stone's field-defining 1991 essay "The Empire Strikes Back," they note that trans studies paradoxically begins with a call to abandon the figure of the transsexual, imagined solely as a normative medical category. In contrast, the authors argue that the critical value of the transsexual lies precisely in her being an obstacle to romantic narratives of antinormative queerness.

Editor's Note /Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen --On Reproduction /Merve Emre --Mothering /Sophie Lewis --The Violence of the Natural /Annie Menzel --Neoliberal Perfectionism /Chris Kaposy --Be Wary of the Techno-fix /Marcy Darnovsky --Suspending (Feminist) Judgment /Irina Aristakhova --Feminist Paradoxes /Diane Tober --Selling Hope /Miriam Zoll --Extreme Pregnancy /Andrea Long Chu --Every Woman I a Working Woman /Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards --Going to Work in Mommy's Basement /Sarah Sharma --Aging into Feminism /James Chappell --A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018-73 /Cathy O'Neil --When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children /Michael Bronski.