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... “See Beams Glitter” is an introduction the author wrote for a book by Cooper Lee Bombardier; it is also an appreciation of Bombardier's work. The text registers the formation of the next generation of trans writers and artists in Trans SanFrisco. There is an intimation, the author ventures...

... If during Mariano Turpo’s time as an activist, the main political struggle in the countryside was aimed against local landowners, current rural activism is aimed against mining corporations. In the last two years, venture capital has made serious incursions in the Andes: its mountains...

...” and what venture capitalists describe as part of the revolution in green technologies are animated by and animate the same tensions and contradictions driving contemporary geontopower. digital media infrastructure immateriality postcolonial archive ...

... The epilogue ventures into the territory of personal narrative, relaying the author’s own disabled, femme-of-color dreams of infrastructure. It describes her experiences tending to her best friend during end-stage cancer care. The author reflects on how queer-of-color and disability life-writing...

... stones inhabit and habituate those worlds? And, perhaps more fundamentally, how might stones be a material analytic for the trans world-building ventures of activism and poetic resistance? Here, I have pebbled together a series of vignettes that explore precisely these questions, locating stone...

... This chapter looks at early motion picture entrepreneurs working in northern cities. Along with George W. Broome and Louis B. Anderson, filmmakers such as Hunter C. Haynes in New York and Peter P. Jones, Arthur Anderson, and William Foster in Chicago engaged in various moving picture ventures...

... as they venture out into the world. In her 2011 commencement address at Trinity Washington University, she recalls key experiences with inspiring women teachers from her childhood, who taught her vital lessons that she has relied on throughout her life. She also praises the crucial work of women's colleges...

... healthscapes in the United States are rapidly intensifying due to the recent emergence of venture capital–funded hormone subscription and telehealth services that prey on trans trauma ordinariness in order to profit off the most marginalized sectors of trans populations. This chapter examines the proliferation...

... Breaking with 1970s protocol, Bruce Mailman encouraged his dancers to engage in sexual intercourse during the course of a night when he created a darkened balcony upon opening the Saint in 1980. Even if some approached the balcony in a circumspect manner, if at all, thousands ventured...

... forestry (including producers cooperatives) were undermined by new policies such as forest concessions granted to timber companies, logging bans ( vedas ), and joint venture agreements ( contratos de asociación en participación ) between villagers and timber interests. In Chihuahua, Mexican corporations...

... This chapter focuses on the imbrication of Mexico's nineteenth-century war against the Apache and Comanche with the U.S.–Mexico war. Erstwhile enemies in their imperial ventures, U.S. and Mexican state governments nevertheless jointly executed a war against the equestrian tribes. The Treaty...

... administrations of Ismael Montes (1904–9, 1913–17). He actively courted U.S. financial investment and arranged the so-called Speyer Contract, a joint stock venture between the Bolivian government, the National City Bank of New York, and the Speyer Company to construct railroads that would “vertebrate” national...

... the community-based forestry. Village forestry (including producers cooperatives) were undermined by new policies such as forest concessions granted to timber companies, logging bans ( vedas ), and joint venture agreements ( contratos de asociación en participación ) between villagers and timber interests...

... analytic for the trans world-building ventures of activism and poetic resistance? Here, I have pebbled together a series of vignettes that explore precisely these questions, locating stone in the most personal—and most political—moments of trans life, which is also to say of trans resistance. pebble...