Envisioning a Critical and Liberatory Approach to Trans and Queer Center(ed) Diversity Work

Edited by D. Chase Catalano, Antonio Duran, T.J. Jourian, and Jonathan Pryor

Envisioning a Critical and Liberatory Approach to Trans and Queer Center(ed) Diversity Work offers innovative and contemporary approaches for working with and for trans and queer (TQ) campus populations. By taking critical and liberatory perspectives, each chapter offers ideas that will inspire those called to serve TQ communities how to engage in practices to transform campuses, diversity work, and ourselves.

Through unabashedly critical, liberatory, and intersectional lenses, Catalano, Duran, Jourian, and Pryor and the chapter authors challenge readers to use this text to resist the oppression TQ lives face in higher education: "we must envision what we hope to transform our campuses into and use that vision as our compass" (Introduction). The editors have crafted a path toward a future already in progress; rich with insights, the book is accessible at all levels across higher education. It is a love letter that speaks with and to TQ center(ed) diversity work(ers), acknowledging the history and ongoing-ness of our struggle, while remembering that we will always be. This text is essential reading for those whose imaginations are bold enough to embrace it.