... interests or evaluations by asking and identifying (1) how “queer” and “LGBT” frameworks work to erase trans lived experiences; (2) what meaningful or quality life trans lived experience is assumed to look like; and (3) why frameworks like trans vitalities are needed to offer necessarily messy toolkits...

... Starting with a consideration of what a story is, and the inadequacy of a coherent narrative about necessarily chaotic lives, the introduction examines the changing history of African Americans mourning the murder and subsequently celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...

... Chapter 2 looks at genetic studies carried out from the 1940s to the 1970s. These focused mainly on indigenous peoples, but necessarily explored processes of mestizaje. The studies took place at the time of a global shift toward antiracism, which depended on a strict divide between biology...

... of a national boundary to “an inside-out as much as an outside-in.” This spatial dynamic plays out on the background of media and their theorization from different times, as well as of the different temporalities with which they are respectively charged. It is an encounter that is both necessarily overdue...

... of the episodic stories of escape in necessarily sonic and spoken repetitions. Reagon’s opera shows a version of escape that demands togetherness, uncomfortable coalition, and the destruction of the figure of the human as the only method of survival. care coalition Octavia Butler Toshi Reagon ...

... analyst, which necessarily accompany its interventionist form. psychoanalysis Lacan Freud master ...

... How would our disciplines and methodologies change if we took seriously the idea that bodies (and not only books and documents) produce, store, and transfer knowledge? The epistemic turn prompted by embodied objects of analysis necessarily provoked shifts in what academic disciplines value...

..., among them Carlos Andrade, Renee Pualani Louis, and Katrina-Ann Kapāʻanaokalāokeola Oliveira, to establish and perpetuate specifically Kanaka geography, and, second, that it will show how Kanaka geography in any era of colonialism—his or ours—is necessarily a political project that must include...

... but not necessarily centered in Wayward Lives . It is a recombination of Hartman’s sentences, words, and ideas, crossfading them with R&B lyrics so as to unearth the messy feelings, both negative and positive, behind the numbers, skewed gender ratios, archival intervals, and so many other “official” data...

... Leading a major institution like the Duke University Medical Center and Health System necessarily involved both communication and reputational issues both within and beyond the institution. Under his tenure, Duke rose to be perceived as among the most innovative medical institutions...

... By thinking beyond sexual identities and rights, and without assuming queer to be inherently and necessarily antinormative, this chapter considers queer states to be those that are excluded from the realm of normal statehood (that is, liberal/secular) and often deemed as sexually perverse...

... corporeally anchored and mechanically detachable, coexisting with but not necessarily belonging to the onscreen singer. The ambivalence of the voice in turn points to the specific assumptions about performance and stardom operative in this period. Chung Ching [Zhong Qing] Yao Lee dubbing sound...

... are not necessarily liberatory spaces, just as plurality and difference are not “good” in and of themselves. Thus, Snorton proposes that the trouble with gender on Triton in the twenty-second century and now is not that gender is unable to proliferate; rather, it is that the techniques for normativizing gender so...

... In recent years much has been written about the revival of counterinsurgency as the preferred strategy of the U.S.-led forces in the “global war on terror.” Such a strategy necessarily requires knowledge of the local languages and cultures. This chapter focuses on the U.S. military’s attempts...

... This chapter begins the exploration of indigenous ecological concepts and practices in Porgera. There is no word for nature or ecology in Porgera, so this chapter and the following two argue that any deep understanding of ecological ideas must necessarily incorporate ideas about land...

... in the past, the chapter does not seek to perform a historical accounting. Instead, it gestures to the repetitive shape—in a necessarily partial and limited way—of Jamaican queerness over time. The chapter uses common frames of Caribbean history—European conquest, Indigenous genocide, African enslavement...

... Chapter 4 investigates that entity called “black love” and speculates about what happens when the object of one's community-building ethic is not necessarily directed toward the human. It takes another look at L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Charles Burnett's two films released in the 1970s, The Horse...

... wars” and give voice to women in their own communities, they draw on theories of affect to understand and articulate mothers’ worlds. The authors elaborate their concept of the digital mundane, where media don’t necessarily stand out as particularly significant but are indistinguishable from the banal...

... and economic calculations, but people’s ways of measuring changes in their surroundings do not necessarily rely on legal classifications of water, environmental standards, or scientific studies. The engagement and interactions between people, land, and other elements of the environment—made through affect...