Conclusion: Across Waters, Lands and Generations: What the “New” Trans Studies in Education Has to Teach Us

In this closing chapter, the author discusses the practice of noticing as it connects to opening oneself toward a “new” Trans Studies praxis. Different from academic critique, which often operates through a technology of whiteness that seeks flaws and points out errors in previous scholarly work in order to signal the “rightness” of new(er) approaches, noticing-as-praxis invites an opening, softening and invitation toward communities of scholars(hip). In this way, noticing becomes a way of thinking/feeling/being trans across waters, lands and generations such that what is “new” can continue to unfold and develop. Noticing does not negate or do away with the “old,” but invites ongoing conversations and profusions, which then sets the stage for the “new-new,” or that which is to come beyond. The chapter will close with an invitation for readers to keep thinking/feeling/being trans in profound ways, and honors the chapter authors in the book for their contributions being a part of the ongoing theoretical, methodological and political/ethical deepening of Trans Studies.