Trans...engagements is a new thematic strand dedicated to exploring the theory and practice of gender variant bodies. It aims to engage artists, scholars, activists, poets, philosophers and those brave souls living in the gender borderlands. Through this strand we want to encourage the use of various media, theories and styles of writing to reflect, meditate, intervene, represent and translate the full range of experiences in the ongoing journey of gender crossings and crisscrossings burdened with enormous difficulties and joyous potential. Trans...engagements is about building the necessary bridges between people working in a range of disparate fields who are grappling with issues of representing both the political struggles of gender variant people and their everyday lives. Trans...engagements encompasses transgender, transsexual, genderqueer and a range of other diverse gender variant identities. Following Halbestram, this is a forum for challenging the poverty of the deeply entrenched social belief that gender as the signification for a ("normal") corporeal home, and as the normalizing politics of home, depends on two anatomical territories of male and female divided by a flesh border. Instead of this, we would like to seriously explore, as Aizura and Halbestram suggest, another possibility that gender/sex as a bodily home might be a "place that one patches together from different spaces, rather than a linear crossing from one to the other."