“<i>The Terrible We</i> serves as an important guide for those interested in new ways of viewing trans life in both its positive and negative aspects and those wanting to use everyday archives in a method that is more interested in fractures and gaps rather than acceptance and completion.” - Jacob Debrock (TSQ) "While the interruption of trans thought’s methodological distancing from disability is the central project of <i>The Terrible We</i>, a key intervention is also the book’s framing of the relation between trans and feminist thought. Awkward-Rich traces the tense relation between them, and reads this relation from the position of depression." - Stephanie Clare (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "One might not expect a book about bad feelings and mad habits to be a joy to read, but <i>The Terrible We</i> is beautifully written and important. . . . Honest, patient, and calling the reader to critically revisit how the splitting of trans from madness and disability has robbed trans discourse of important history and also depth, <i>The Terrible We</i> is a challenging and very much necessary book relevant to several intersecting constituencies and academic disciplines." - Claudia Schippert (Lateral)
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Introduction: On Staying with the Terrible We 1
1. Disabled Histories of Trans 31
Holding Space 61
2. Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual 67
3. Some Dissociative Trans Masc Poetics 89
4. We's Company 117
Afterword/Elegy 143
Notes 151
Bibliography 171
Index 187