GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Trans Temporalities Simon D. Elin Fisher, Rasheedah Phillips and Ido H. Katri This special-issue on ‘Trans Temporalities’ grew out of a dynamic conference by the same name at the University of Toronto, Canada, in April, 2016. 1 Organized by Ido Katri, Simon Fisher and our colleague Celeste Pang, the conference featured scholarship from graduate students, community artist-activists, lay scholars, and faculty addressing the unique relationships between time, narrative, discourse and bodies. Defining these concepts as interrelated enables us to better understand trans temporalities and the widely and forcefully held linear conceptions of ‘progress’ and ‘development’ that constrain them. The conference was successful beyond our aspirations, drawing participants and audience members not only from Toronto, but from across Canada and the United States. 2 We are grateful to the editors of Somatechnics, Sheila L. Cavanagh and Malena Gustavson, for inviting us to further develop these important and exciting conversations in print. Kadji Amin’s definition of ‘temporality’ in the inaugural issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly inspired our conference call for proposals, and thus, this special-issue. In it, he recommends a ‘critical focus on the temporal underpinnings of transgender [which]...may open the way toward a more transformative politics of justice’ (2014: 219). We were engaged by the way ‘trans’ and ‘time’ come together as trans temporality to offer critical interventions into existing scholarship and into politics of justice. Throughout this special-issue, our authors intersect these two analytical frameworks which enable us, also, to consider how we may practically intervene to make a more livable life for trans people, particularly those who are racialized, disabled, poor, incarcerated and/or otherwise marginalized. Somatechnics 7.1 (2017): 1–15 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2017.0202 # Edinburgh University Press www.euppublishing.com/soma