Trans Futurity brings together regional artists exploring trans potentialities through visual art and media. Curated in collaboration with the Susan B. Anthony Institute and coincident with the 2025 Science Fiction Research Association Conference, the exhibition takes the conference’s inciting claim, “Trans people are (in) the future,” as its point of departure. Inspired by and indelibly connected to artist Alisha Worsley’s proclamation, “There are black people in the future,” the statement’s simple descriptive structure paradoxically underscores the force and radicality of such a claim in the face of transphobia and trans erasure. This erasure interlocks with racialized, gendered, sexual, class-based, ability-based, and ecological violence that seeks to maintain the hegemony of white, heteronormative patriarchy. Such violence retains its force through rallying cries to mold the future into the image of an idealized, “great” past—again. Taking the form of a statement of fact rather than a rallying cry, “Trans people are (in) the future” boldly indexes and makes a dual truth claim about an existent future: trans people are there in that future, and they are that future. Given the performativity and contingency of all such speech acts, even those that purport to be merely descriptive, Trans Futurity presents visual art and media as a critical means of realizing the future that the claim self-reflexively describes and, in doing so, promises. How can present speculations about trans futurity fulfill this promise, making way for new ways of being? Aside from the parenthetical (in), how do trans people embody the future in the present? How can visual art and media draw this future into the present? And how can the pasts that have been erased come to life in the future?