Transgender Studies

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Amanda Lock Swarr
Associate Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Latest News

Celebrate Pride Month with Duke University Press's Curated Selection of LGBTQ+ Books (June 12, 2023)
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Statement on Reproductive Justice (July 20, 2022)
Amanda Swarr Receives Fellowship for Her Book and Serves as Co-Editor of “The Intersex Issue” of TSQ (July 18, 2022)

Related Research

Swarr, Amanda Lock. Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Wolff, Michelle, David Rubin, and Amanda Lock Swarr. 2022. "The Intersex Issue: An Introduction." Transgender Studies Quarterly 9.2: 143-159.
Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Editors. Queer Nightlife. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Mobley SD, Johnson RW, Sewell CJP, Johnson JM, Neely AJ. “We Are Not Victims”: Unmasking Black Queer and Trans* Student Activism at HBCUs. About Campus. 2021;26(3):24-28. doi:10.1177/1086482220953221
Johnson; Dawson and Reyes, R. W. J. (2018, October 15). Beyond The Battleground [Video]. The Bushwick Film Institute.Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIz2v-phTlI&t=30s
Patricia Novotny. "Rape Victims in the (Gender) Neutral Zone: The Assimilation of Resistance?,"Seattle Journal for Social Justice: Vol. 1: Iss. 3, Article 62. 2012.
Amanda Lock Swarr. "Paradoxes of Butchness: Lesbian Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Africa." SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 37(4): Summer 2012.
Amanda Lock Swarr. Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa. New York, SUNY Press, 2012.
Amanda Lock Swarr, with Sally Gross and Liesl Theron. "South African Intersex Activism: Caster Semenya's Impact and Import." Feminist Studies, 35(3): Fall 2009.
Patricia Novotny. "Rape Victims in the (Gender) Neutral Zone: The Assimilation of Resistance?,"Seattle Journal for Social Justice 743 (Spring/Summer 2003).