... Chapter 3 follows WWAV’s process of organizing a systematic challenge to fight the criminalization of our community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina under Louisiana’s “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” (CANS) statute, which mandated sex offender registration for a period of fifteen years...

... Gabriella Coleman describes herself alternately as a translator, a broker, a gopher, and a trickster as she responds to solicitations by journalists. Studying a secretive network of hackers rendered both her knowledge and her mediation particularly coveted. Her public contribution mainly...

... Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) statute expanded the state’s nineteenth-century sodomy statute to include offenses involving prostitution when it was adopted in 1982. Under CANS, Louisiana sent hundreds of people—primarily African American women, including transgender...

...Strategies Gabriella Coleman describes herself alternately as a translator, a broker, a gopher, and a trickster as she responds to solicitations by journalists. Studying a secretive network of hackers rendered both her knowledge and her mediation particularly coveted. Her public contribution...

... This chapter argues that women’s films about other cultures are marketed in North America as humanist fables and that art house exhibition functions as a middle-brow and arguably feminized taste culture. It takes as case studies prominent women directors whose diasporic visions of “home” solicit...

... of Christian unity and brotherly love. Even in war, the principal aim of the Spanish forces was incorporation, thus missions and military outposts were positioned according to these indigenous coordinates. In this chapter I demonstrate how the reiterative force of these previous solicitous, if barbarous...

... leader Cumbay both negotiated and warred with Spanish authorities as well as with patriot creole armies over some fifteen years in order to defend Chiriguano autonomy. On two occasions, in 1799 and 1801, Cumbay went to the Audiencia of Charcas to solicit territorial rights. The remarkable account...

... outside of the global north. sodomy laws human rights LGBT rights global south Jamaica Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) statute expanded the state’s nineteenth-century sodomy statute to include offenses involving prostitution when it was adopted in 1982. Under CANS...

... creole armies over some fifteen years in order to defend Chiriguano autonomy. On two occasions, in 1799 and 1801, Cumbay went to the Audiencia of Charcas to solicit territorial rights. The remarkable account that follows, attributed to an Argentine military oӽcial, describes Cumbay as a proud “barbarian...