TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Announcement of Publication and First Call for Submissions
By DOLORES FIDISHUN
posted on July 17, 2012 6:34 PM

http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxf19/blogs/dolores_list_of_cfps/2012/07/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly.html

Announcement of Publication

General Editors Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker are pleased to announce that TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly will be published by Duke University Press, currently planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Every issue of TSQ will be a specially themed issue that also contains regularly recurring  features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces.

Call for Submissions for TSQ 1:1 (2014)

We invite submissions of short pieces (250-1500 words) for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies," to be published by Duke University Press and planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. Our intention is to showcase a wide range of viewpoints on the present state of the field by bringing together fresh thoughts and informed opinion about current concepts, key terms, recurring themes, familiar problems, and hot topics in the field. Each piece should have a title consisting of a single word or short phrase describing its content; the volume will be organized alphabetically by that title.

Articles may be written in the style of a mini-essay, as in Raymond Williams' classic Keywords; as a factual encyclopedia-style article such as might be found on Wikipedia; as a capsule review of transgender-related developments in a particular field (archaeology, musicology), geographical location (Iran, Taiwan), or a topic (pornography, psychoanalysis). Creative interpretations of the required form are also welcome. However, each article must address the topic under discussion in relation to some aspect of transgender studies or transgender phenomena.

Thanks for posting this. I am going to submit a proposal!

Does anyone know if you have to prove that you have a vast academic background or something? Like, will they consider a submission from a simple transgender graduate?