... include the twisted temporalities of rehabilitation, boredom, and friendship and the fragmented presence of war that makes the war zone of Iraq and this state-side military facility seem oddly contiguous. This chapter also introduces the Fisher House, the communal “home away from home” at Walter Reed...

... Using James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time as a point of departure, Alison Reed engages the neoliberal bent in queer studies by highlighting the ways it unwittingly deploys racialized bodies as “spectacular markers of queerness,” the practice of employing race as theoretical fetish. Through...