摘要：We live in the age of trans. In this special issue, our focus will be on transdisciplinary and translingualchallenges for WAC/WID, but let’s take a moment at the outset to see our efforts here as one part—a verysmall part—of a much broader trans moment. Most prominently, of course, trans in contemporaryculture points to transgender, transsexual, and related terms. For persons who identify as trans, it is both adeeply personal matter, yet also inevitably a socially-constructed one. Transing requires that socialcategories such as gender be seen as malleable, as arbitrary and imposed, and therefore subject to change,as opposed to natural, biological, and inviolable.
