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...V Varun Chaudhry The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen's deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book's methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses...

... is exchanged for money and livelihood. These efforts to “draw the line” between disapproved and expected forms of exploitation and inequality (sexual and nonsexual) are filled with contradiction and incoherence, particularly in regard to the sexual culpability of men or women. Recent international law (2000...

... and biological reproduction. The Introduction explores the ways in which capitalism is only made possible by systems of racial, sexual, and national exploitation; further, we seek to interrupt the commonsensical presumption that recuperation from periods of crisis depends on the increasingly violent reassertion...

... violence and eroticism their constitutive condition—is nevertheless differentially distributed and also politically exploited. Queer theory has played a special role in bringing to light this differential distribution of precariousness, and this means that queer theory is from the outset implicated...

... of the 1960s and 1970s, a new mode of power emerged that constitutes surplus as both surplus labor—produced out of the conditions of exploitation—and surplus existence—produced out of conditions of devaluation. In this new capitalist configuration, Moraga's very inconsistency can be read as a condition...

... in the nineteenth-century colony of Natal brought them into conflict with the Zulu peoples they sought to supplant and exploit. A reading of emigrant letters, missionary pamphlets, and newspaper correspondence reveals that the persistence of the practice of isithembu (polygamy) and ilobolo (the ritual exchange...

...Scott Herring This essay crafts a theory of queer conservatism by tracing understudied links between sexual nonnormativity and the rise of the New Right via the genre of hillbilly exploitation (hixploitation) cinema. I first rehearse the genre's formal and political markers as it was popularized...

... of the political economic conditions or systems of governance. By destroying safe and legal venues for sex work, these actors have created the very exploitation they purport to prevent. The article also links these actions to US foreign policy mandates and a broader shift in governmentality in Brazil predicated...

... appropriation through patron‐client networks at a time of heightened awareness of corruption, exploitation, and fears of foreign meddling in the politics and economics of African postcolonies. The article makes the case that the homosexual man becomes a more convincing signifier of contemporary social anxiety...

...Lucas Crawford This article argues that queer theory must depart from three temporalities often attributed to fat bodies even in queer circles and theory—most notably by Lauren Berlant in the much-lauded Cruel Optimism . It asserts that figural exploitations of fatness have been too quickly...

... and instead developed notions of “good” and “bad” practices, positioning surrogacy in California as ethically regulated, while surrogacy in India was framed as fraught with ethical issues and exploitative. The article concludes that the two cases point to how specific formations of gay surrogacy work...

... ( 2006 ) built on this work to examine “peasant rebellions” that swept Southeast Asia during the 1930s. He argued that the economic and political transformations of the colonial era systematically violated the peasantry's “notion of economic justice and their working definition of exploitation,” sparking...

... Community The AFSC’s Hawai’i and LGBT programs challenge ourselves [and] our friends to be part of ongoing efforts to replace the ethos of exploitation with the ethic of jus- tice. How can the gay community expect to gain justice for itself if we do not also actively seek...

... in US imperialism, Islamophobia, and the “war on terror,” the anthology’s attention to more routinized and quotidian processes of death making, such as the regulation of trans feminine bodies and exploitation of people of color in the prison system, serves to broaden the post-­9/11 locus of much...

... and activist discourses precisely because they were written from a black radical standpoint within the forming neoliberal order, a standpoint that exploits for liberation, col- lective autonomy, communal survival, and economic redistribution the structural contradictions immanent to the modes...

... circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations sur- rounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets: Sex...

...- tion into black feminist analyses of black women in pornography by cultivating a theory of ecstasy that subverts injury. Through the reading practice that Nash calls racial iconography, she moves beyond the framework of exploitation that has dominated discussions of black women in pornography...

... elude the overdetermined functions scripted for them by exploitative economies of difference requires an expansive imagination as well as analytical acumen. Afro- Fabulations appraises Black performances that frustrate efforts to reduce them to matters of similarity and difference, truth and falsehood...

... sexualities both inside and outside the sexual mar- ketplace — to find pleasure in moments of autonomy from exploitation and within exploitative conditions” (178). This form of agency leads some actors to embrace and market ideologies of racial difference, capitalize on social stigma, and parlay...

... correspond with a point Kelsey makes about bars: “The curious combination of exploitation and liberation helped defi ne the mood in gay bars then as it is now, though perhaps both elements were more extreme in those days.”2 The calculus of exploitation and liberation dogs queer...