Series preface / Johanna Burton --
Director's foreword / Lisa Phillips --
Known unknowns: an introduction to Trap door / Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton --
The labor of werqing it: the performance and protest strategies of Sir Lady Java / Treva Ellison --
Cautious living: black trans women and the politics of documentation / Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Cece McDonald in conversation with Toshio Meronek --
Existing in the world: blackness at the edge of trans visibility / Che Gossett and Juliana Huxtable in conversation --
Trans history in a moment of danger: organizing within and beyond "visibility" in the 1970s / Abram J. Lewis --
Out of obscurity: trans resistance 1969-2016 / Grace Dunham --
Introducing the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art / Chris E. Vargas --
One from the vaults: gossip, access, and trans history-telling / Morgan M. Page --
Everywhere archives: transgendering, trans Asians, and the Internet / Mel Y. Chen --
Dark shimmers: the rhythm of necropolitical affect in digital media / Micha Cárdenas --
Blackness and the trouble of trans visibility / Che Gossett --
Representation and its limits / Roundtable participants: Lexi Adsit, Sydney Freeland, Robert Hamblin, and Geo Wyeth; moderator: Tavia Nyong'o --
The last extremists? / Heather Love --
An affinity of hammers / Sara Ahmed --
The guild of the brave poor things / Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitsanos --
Spiderwomen / Eva Hayward --
Proximity: on the work of Mark Aguhar / Roy Pérez --
Dynamic static / Nicole Archer --
Model of futurity / Roundtable participants: Kai Lumumba Barrow, Yve Laris Cohen, and Kalaniopua Young; moderator: Dan Spade --
All terror, all beauty / Wu Tsang and Fred Moten in conversation --
Canonical undoings: notes on trans art and archives / Stamatina Gregory and Jeanne Vaccaro --
Contemporary art and critical transgender infrastructures / Jeannine Tang.
