ABSTRACT
Focusing on the racial and gendered pedagogies of borders and institutions that discipline trans, racialized subjects can teach us and ultimately help us understand the complexities of the psychic dimensions of transfronterizo life in the Arizona context. Borderlands or frontera in this chapter references the geopolitical and psychic space along the U.S.-Mexico border as described by Gloria Anzaldúa, but also trans subjectivity. To demonstrate what can be learned from transfronterizo subjectivity, I provide three examples that are pedagogical, as they flesh out the material and psychic conditions that frame the everydayness of “reasonable suspiciousness” of Brown bodies from a trans perspective.
