Researchers

Tristen Kade

Tristen Kade is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Managing Editor of the leading international journal, Men and Masculinities. Their research centers on Black trans masculinities, race, gender, and sexuality, and identify formation.

Tristen’s dissertation examines how Black transmasculine people and masculine-presenting women from the Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge metropolitan areas in the U.S. construct, make sense of, and embody masculinities. The project utilizes in-depth interviews to examine how dominant ideologies are resisted, transformed, and reproduced among Black masculine-presenting women and transmasculine people in their navigation and accomplishment of masculinity across public and private social contexts, relationships, and interactions. This research aims to improve our understanding of how inequalities associated with race, gender, and sexuality intersect within this largely unobserved community. Tristen’s work has been published in Socius, The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies, among other venues.