Alex C. Lange, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Higher education, School of Education at Colorado State University  The night I began to outline the first chapter of my (original) dissertation [1] focused on transgender students’ self-authorship capacities, something nagged at my spirit. A cowlick that would not rest comfortably. A small splinter, not even a millimeter deep in my hand. As I stared at my poster board, trying to make sense of what bothered me, cold water splashed me in the face. I grabbed a sticky note and a metallic-colored marker and wrote down the phrase to make sure I would not run away from it:   What does it mean to study student development in a time of death, division, and disease?  When I wrote that note on March 25, 2020, I thought of the Black and Latina trans women and transfeminine people, who are exponentially subject to violence compared to their cisgender counterparts and their transmasculine and non-binary siblings. The trans communit...