Update February 2025

We are thrilled to share that our edited volume is moving to publication under the working title Championing Trans and Queer Inclusion Beyond the Campus Resource Center. Stay tuned for more exciting updates about the book, and a preview of the important contributions from our collaborating authors! 

- Kris, Kaity, Nick, and Cole

July 2023

Hello Colleague!

We are Kris Oliveira, Nick Daily, Kaity Prieto, and Cole Eskridge and we have spent the better part of a year developing this call for chapters to contribute to a book proposal that we will share with publishers later this year. ACPA's Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities (CSGI) has endorsed this book proposal. This book will center the stories, experiences, and strategies that higher education scholars, practitioners, thinkers, and doers can reference to consider ways of queering higher education outside of the spaces where queer and trans student and employee support is traditionally housed. In this way, we move “beyond the (Queer and Trans resource) center.” 

In a social world where equity work is purportedly everyone’s work and accountability is no one’s work, we aim to co-create an edited volume that considers strategies that scholars and practitioners across functional units have developed to make campuses more hospitable for us. In this way, we have imagined this book as a love letter - for us, by us, and with us - in service of sustaining us. In fact, contributors will craft a mini-love letter as a part of their submission to represent the ethos and humanity of this collective work. 

We invite you to review this website to learn more the project and to learn about updates as we move from concept, through writing, and ultimately sharing these stories and strategies! We are so excited to build this network of thinkers and doers. 

- Kaity, Cole, Nick, and Kris