Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: Dean 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.