| Transgender Studies Quarterly | |
| Cover: | Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issues 1–2.jpg |
| Abbreviation: | Transgender Stud. Q. |
| Discipline: | Transgender studies |
| Editors: | Susan Stryker, Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, Grace Lavery, and Abraham B. Weil |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Country: | United States |
| History: | 2014–present |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| Issn: | 2328-9252 |
| Eissn: | 2328-9260 |
| Lccn: | 2013201233 |
| Oclc: | 945577457 |
| Website: | http://tsq.dukejournals.org/ |
| Link1: | http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/current |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/by/year |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering transgender studies, with an emphasis on cultural studies and the humanities.[1] Established in 2014 and published by Duke University Press, it is the first non-medical journal about transgender studies.[2]
The founding editors-in-chief are Susan Stryker (University of Arizona) and Paisley Currah (Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY),[3] and were joined by Francisco J. Galarte (University of Arizona) in 2019.[4]
In the introduction to the first issue, Currah and Stryker state that they intend the journal to be a gathering place for different ideas within the field of transgender studies, and that they embrace multiple definitions of transgender.[5]
In an interview about the journal, Stryker stated that she felt she had been working on the first issue since the 1990s. While co-editing a special transgender studies issue of Women's Studies Quarterly in 2008, Stryker and Currah realized the need for a publication dedicated to the topic,[6] when they received over 200 submissions for the special issue but were only able to publish 12. In May 2013, they started a month-long Kickstarter campaign to help fund the journal.[7] They received more than US$10,000 in donations in the first five days; by the end of the campaign, the journal had nearly $25,000 in crowdfunded capital.[8]
Because the first call for submissions drew a considerable amount of interest, the first issue was expanded into a book-length double issue with 86 essays.[9] The title of the first issue, "Postposttranssexual", comes from Sandy Stone's 1987 article "", which has been called the start of transgender studies.[10] Each essay in this issue focuses on key concepts within transgender studies.[11]
Each issue of TSQ addresses specific themes, with the exception of the un-themed, open call issue released February 1, 2018. Past issue themes have included surgery, pedagogy, archives, trans/feminisms, and blackness.[12]