... The first half of the book draws on examples from The Addams Family , The Brady Bunch , Family Matters , and other TV shows and films to explore the ways the structure of the sitcom has allowed for a capacious and yet constricted understanding of the family, one that can use queer figures...

... be less clear now. This chapter asks why this may be so and why this moment marks and demands new thinking. It argues that our understandings of “the carnal,” with an emphasis more on the sexual than “on the flesh,” have been too constricted to account for the sorts of bodily intrusions and manipulations...

... that best dramatize the stakes of this question: stories of #TransWomenBelongAtSmith, #AmherstUprising, and Indigenous life. I want to track how the generativity of worlding gets constricted or expanded depending on who is chosen to direct it. Ultimately, I want to grapple with the very real, very everyday...

... of flight from police create openings for reimagining a world beyond police. The chapter further positions Twyman's moment of flight as an extension of the fugitive infrastructure of her neighborhood, where residents organized and sustained life in the face of urban renewal and other constrictions of state...

... understandings of “the carnal,” with an emphasis more on the sexual than “on the flesh,” have been too constricted to account for the sorts of bodily intrusions and manipulations to which designated populations have been, and continue to be, exposed. Sexuality and empire Torture Biopolitics Empire...

..., #AmherstUprising, and Indigenous life. I want to track how the generativity of worlding gets constricted or expanded depending on who is chosen to direct it. Ultimately, I want to grapple with the very real, very everyday problem of dreaming trans futures from specific locations—and to explore how location itself...