Trystan T. Cotten is a professor, publisher, public scholar and entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing editor of Transgress Press (est. 2012), an indie publishing house printing thought-provoking books about politics, race, gender and sexuality. He is also professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Sociology, Gender and Gerontology at California State University, Stanislaus. Trystan has written numerous articles on topics of race, gender, sexuality and citizenship and edited six books, more recently including: Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men, Below the Belt: Genital Talk by Men of Trans Experiences, and Transgender Migrations: Bodies, Borders and Geopolitics of Gender Transition. Currently, he is filming a documentary on transsexual men’s journeys of sex reassignment surgery. 
Trystan discusses an assortment of topics with Kenrya and Erica, including nonnormative gender and sexual expression in black history; institution building in black and trans communities; love and romance for trans people.     
Black Transman Meets Police Again
In this interview with Aymann, Trystan discusses his shock of being racially profiled by police and white vigilantes, which he'd never experienced before transitioning. He shares lessons he's learned, including privileges and advantages when he was female embodied, and strategies of how black and brown men can survive and even thrive in the midst of white supremacy, fascism, and Islamophobia.​