In Voices for Transgender Equality, TJ Billard has produced the kind of social analysis we urgently need: empirical, pragmatic, and, most importantly, centered on the material lives of transgender people. Among the leading lights in a new generation of scholars, Billard's contribution augurs well for the future of transgender studies.
Thomas J Billard is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and, by courtesy, the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. They are the founding Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies--the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender life--and Editor-in-Chief of the Center's flagship journal, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. Billard is co-editor (with Silvio Waisbord) of Public Scholarship in Communication Studies.