...Tallie Ben Daniel; Hilary Berwick This dossier names “queer security studies” as a new field that investigates what security and safety means to queer and feminist studies, critical military studies, and broad progressive movements. What counts as safety, and for whom? What kinds of material...

...Mel Y. Chen This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the affectivity and relationality—indeed the bonds—of queerness as it is presently theorized. Approaching toxicity in three different modes, I first consider how vulnerability, safety, immunity, threat...

... between sex and identity, safety and self-interest, that this discourse often assumes. Two of the books reviewed here specifically explore psychoanalytic concepts of perversion, which are often misogynistic and homophobic, but which have also been turned to queer ends. The essay ends with a discussion...

... of queer bodies in Brazil, marking the impossible promises of safety made by the penal “cystem.” By elaborating a critique of carcerality in LGBT contemporary politics, the authors argue for a refusal of the colonial world's solutions to violence. Amid (im)possibilities, this article formulates some...

... how the platform of robotics in government- disseminated narratives aestheticizes elements such as safety and danger in relation to Japanese and foreign identities in order to politicize what is taken as Japanese itself; Japan itself is depicted as constructed by the Japanese people, themselves...

... route tourists away from witnessing the everyday violence of Israel s racialized segregation yet simultaneously celebrate Israeli soldiers and inoculate against critiques of militarized violence by positioning it as integral to both the maintenance of diversity and the promise of safety from violence...

... and adults2 Levine’s work details how laws that purportedly protect children’s sexual safety often fail to do so and instead criminalize innocent adults. Similarly, Philip Jenkins’s Moral Panic looks at a century’s worth of sometimes unnecessary, often...

... not be concerned about the reach of these tactics: those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear, and ever more extensive surveillance is only in the interest of those citizens’ safety. The promise of protection after Pulse helped fold “LGBTQ” 14 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES...

...- cally driven case study, summoning its own historical antecedents rather than sim- ply the next set of events unfolding during the next set of years. Hanhardt focuses on those activist efforts that took violence to be the problem, safety the goal. The violence/safety...

... or imaginative. Ghisyawan's book Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination offers over twenty maps in different sizes, scales, and colors, inclusive of various emblems, revealing how “safety,” “space,” and “sexuality” are understood, negotiated, and embodied from...

.... There are workshops for safety planning when surviving IPV. All of these community engagements stimulate the propagation of learned anti-violence in Brooklyn. Verbal de-escalation is the centerpiece of it all. The larger community organizing center, the Audre Lorde Project (ALP), to which the collective belongs...

... of safety and power as an image maker and my fear and vulnerability as the seen object. VIII It was initially frightening for me to put myself on display as a sexual object. My fear was not simply that of being physically exposed and potentially rejected, ridiculed, misperceived, or found lacking...

.../a and Hispanic communities in public spaces of consumption (see Hernández 2018 ; also see Náñez et al. 2019 ). Mediations of security and safety in the context of the Pulse shooting reveal how some forms of violence are rendered consequential by virtue of their ascribed rarity. Islamophobic discourses...

... of Black trans futures, visual media contain important insights into how Black trans people envision worlds of safety, care, and community beyond the carceral system. This essay focuses on literature, film, and music because these art forms remain undertheorized as vehicles for abolitionist world building...

... as a very visible and unique category of individual. . . . The very “obvious- ness” of many queer men in drag tied to the femininity inherent in such acts, permits these men a degree of social safety when socializing with the “straight” community. (86...

... Gender identification becomes more heavily monitored and gender diversity more controversial in situations where gender delineates individuals’ opportunities, inclusion, and personal safety. Both formal and informal regulations are used to locate individuals within a gender dichotomous...

..., and many others like it also cre- ated by Güres¸, a visual and performance artist, deal in what I argue is a politically productive ambiguity that toes the line between the safety of invisibility and the political potential of legibility while destabilizing traditional tropes of womanhood in Turkey. Both...

... enhance the security and safety of states through a delicate bal- ancing of militarism and humanitarianism. That is to say, human security is based on humanizing security discourses and stands in distinction to wholly repressive strategies of security. More specifically, this new logic of human...

... to feel desi and desirable in a gay club.” The rest of the time, Khubchandani writes, “there is almost no moment in which I have full permission to dance like a desi fag, to express my ishtyle in queer public spaces, without worrying about my safety or feeling embarrassed” (131). But even...

... to redirect $95 million to fund communities over and against the construction of a cop academy in westside Chicago. As both Kaba ( 2019 ) and Benji Hart ( 2019 ) write, even defeats can be wins for shifting the conversation around redefining “safety” and “community” to be centered on people and not property...