The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy Cohen, José Muñoz, and Sandy Stone) to the most recent scholarship, it offers a rich account of these fields' major ideas and contributions while indicating how they have evolved. Centering race and empire, the book offers extended discussion of work in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American studies as well as engaging the Global South. The Introduction further addresses historical considerations of sexuality and gender identity, and queer and trans temporalities, while also providing a robust account of social and political movements that preceded the emergence of queer and trans studies as scholarly fields. Accessible for those unfamiliar with these areas of study, it is also a great resource for those already working in them.

• Provides an overview of queer and trans studies work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences over the past thirty years
• Illustrates the centrality of race and empire to all aspects of queer and trans intellectual work
• Includes chapters on movements that preceded queer and trans studies, histories of gender and sexual nonnormativity, queer and trans of color critique, and queer and trans studies work on nonwestern countries and the Global South