A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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 The book's cover, featuring the face of a Black drag queen who appears in the experimental documentary film Tongues Untied | |
| Author | Jules Gill-Peterson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
Publication date | January 30, 2024 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781804291566 |
A Short History of Trans Misogyny is a 2024 book by transgender author and academic Jules Gill-Peterson which discusses the origins of transmisogyny, hatred or violence toward trans women and other people which she describes as "trans-feminized". Peterson examines how transmisogyny was part of colonial statecraft across many parts of the world, focusing in particular on the genocide of the two-spirit people in the Americas, the criminalization of the hijra people in British India, the murder of Jennifer Laude in the Philippines by an American soldier, and the policing and sensational press coverage of sex worker Mary Jones in New York City.[1][2][3][4][5]
The book was edited by Rosie Warren. Peterson says she first began writing it when Warren contacted her. Peterson developed its ideas while she was a scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California’s Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Public Culture and while lecturing at UC Irvine, and received feedback from the University of Washington, Boston University, Columbia University, Brandeis University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the University of Utah, the Thinking Trans / Trans Thinking Conference, the University of Exeter, the University of Virginia, NYU, Princeton University, the University of Mississippi, and the Thinking Gender conference at UCLA.[1]
