This roundtable discussion took place January–July 2016 via e-mail after participants and special issue editors initially met in virtual mode online. The editors posed the initial questions, and participants e-mailed their responses. Two further rounds of questions and responses ensued, and participants also viewed the responses of their peers on the roundtable. The questions were intended to generate rigorous dialogue about the uses of and problems associated with political economy (PE) as a lens to analyze the experiences of trans men and women and sex- and gender-diverse peoples in different but connected geopolitical locations. The emphasis was on bringing into conversation what is underprioritized in much PE work and also transgender studies as a formation, and how, from their own academic and activist knowledge, methodological bases, and experiences, respondents might see the (re)configuration of trans* political economy toward liberatory, antiracist, decolonial, and economically transformative ends.

Based on data collected for the Federal Contractors Compliance Program contained on university websites, this paper attempts to make some informed and accurate assessments of the representation of racialized and Aboriginal faculty. Its preliminary findings reveal that there are significant variations among universities in the percentage of visible minorities and Aboriginal faculty; that there is a relationship between Employment Equity policies and higher percentages of visible minorities and Aboriginal faculty; that the expectation that “visible minorities” and Aboriginal faculty would be over-represented among contract faculty does not hold for “visible minorities” and that racialized and Aboriginal faculty tend to be clustered in certain faculties. Further research and more disaggregated data is, however, required to confirm these initial findings. À partir des données collectées pour le Programme de conformité des contrats fédéraux offert sur les sites Internet universitaires, nous tentons dans cet article d’établir de manière éclairée et exacte la présence d’un corps professoral racialisé et autochtone. Nos premiers résultats révèlent des variations importantes parmi les diverses universités en ce qui concerne le pourcentage des minorités visibles et des Premières nations dans leur faculté, la relation entre les politiques d’équité de l’emploi et une proportion plus élevée des unes et des autres, une conjecture que toutes deux seraient surreprésentées au sein des professeurs sous contrat qui ne tient pas pour les dites «minorités visibles», mais qui est confirmée quant à un corps professoral racialisé et autochtone tendant à être regroupé dans certaines facultés. Il faudrait cependant une recherche plus avancée et plus de données désagrégées avant de pouvoir confirmer ces résultats préliminaires.

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What is the work of racialized trans death in structuring white trans life? Tracing the chalky encounters of 'ordinary' racialized violence, this article extends Achille Mbembe's (2003) concept of necropolitics to bear upon the centrality of racialized trans death in organizing contemporary trans life. In particular, this research analyzes how the circulation of necropolitical affects-what I have termed trans "necrointimacies"-coheres a morbid sense of belonging through fear, trauma, and the consumption of racialized death in rituals of trans memorialization.

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