Meanwhile, t4t

I feel like I'm the only one with this problem-a gay man in a woman's bodyand so alone, so left out.I gather Jack Garland's remnants with delight + think of his life compared to mine + it does make me feel better.But not much.-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure "What are you going to say to Ed?" "I don't know.I want to know if she's OK.I just think we all shouldn't be fighting each other.We need to stick together."-Jess, in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch BluesJosh got this look on his face with his eyes all big and blue and sad and understanding and loving all at once.He held out his arms and drew me in."It's okay, baby," he said, "it's okay.I'll take care of it.Don't worry about a thing.And he didn't sound mad, not even a little bit.And that's when I knew it was time to run away again.-The narrator in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars T4T is an ideal, I guess, and we fall short of it most of the time.But that's better than before.All it took was the end of the world to make that happen.-Zoey, in Torrey Peter's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones A necdotally, many of us are (and have been) t4t.But if you derive your sense of trans worlds from academic writing and/or popular culture, this would be easy enough to not know, fixated as these genres tend to be on the dramas of trans people negotiating cis worlds of sense.When we proposed this special issue in late October of 2019, it was clear to us that t4t as a concept and practice organizes some of the most salient features of trans life and cultural/knowledge production but