... critical trans studies, that has formulated its own discursive territory through trans as a geopolitical marker of modernity. sooyoung.kim@emory.edu Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Camptown prostitution US militarism trans historiography sex work Asian studies...

... Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” that is, to think transness as a pivot between control and counterinsurgency, to ask how surveillance and security technologies work to capture the threat of trans technicity. Though the meme positively (if derisively) aligns trans technicity with US militarism...

... ; Enloe 2000 ). However, militarization is also a discursive process “involving a shift in general societal beliefs and values in ways necessary to legitimate the use of force, the organization of large standing armies and their leaders, and the higher taxes or tribute to pay for them” (Lutz 2007 : 320...

... was inspired by the violence of US militarisms and the continuous precarity of transgender life. While celebrating his wedding anniversary in New York City, the film's director and cowriter, Jun Lana, heard about the death of Jennifer Laude. Laude is a transgender woman who was killed on October 11, 2014...

.... This was the case for those who identify as waria , a widely used Indonesian term that combines the words woman ( wanita ) and man ( pria ). 1 Although waria face distinct forms of discrimination, they have earned a respected position in some settings in Indonesian society, achieved in part through...

..., and militarism ( Long 2016 ). Indeed, as we were drafting this introduction, one of us received a fund-raising solicitation from a US-based international LGBTQ rights organization with “Fight ISIS” in its subject line. Valued is right. The recognition of transgender as a source of value, not only...

... formations [that] pushes beyond the Cold War architecture of area studies” (11), emphasizing literary and visual aesthetic practices that make us sense suppressed minorities' world-building undercurrents during and after the pink tide. If in the introduction Gómez-Barris invokes Walter D. Mignolo's...

... it advertises internationally to project an image of itself as a liberal haven in a Middle East dominated by phobic and reactionary Islamic forces. This tolerant, democratic, and progressive image is then used to counter criticism of Israel's repressive actions toward Palestine ( Puar 2011 ). As a result...

... in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Transmedia, as it is activated in this inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly , focuses on subversive uses and conceptualizations...

... . 2016 . Administrative Segregation in U.S. Prisons Executive Summary . Arlington, VA : National Institute of Corrections, Department of Justice . Gilmore Ruth . 1999 . “ Globalisation and US Prison Growth: From Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism .” Race and Class 40 , nos...

... of not only English linguistic imperialism but also US cultural imperialism. For me, I have come to find that English dominance is the outcome of continuing legacies of colonialism, US militarization, and capitalism. However, another reality of the situation is that linguistic imperialism is not going away...

... into elaborate narratives told through monologues and dialogues. Gorji's narrative takes us to Iran before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution, and it revolves around the experience of how the pressure of militarized masculinity intensified during this time. Born in France, Nicole remembers the outbreak...

... of academic theory. In contrast, the use of nonheteronormative as the overarching descriptor for such a broad range of people, practices, and relationships at times feels burdened by its Western theoretical meaning. However, the use of the term is certainly forgivable, given the scope of the volume...

... Sancharram (dir. Ligy Pullappally, 2004), powerfully hails her, given her own ancestral connection to this southern Indian state. However, nostalgia does not freeze the past. Gopinath offers us a complex reading of how the film simultaneously freezes Kerala as backward but also engenders possibilities...

.... In particular, the authors propose that the use of the concept of human rights by truth commissions, as well as its inclusion in public policies, has largely excluded trans and travesti women. This text therefore introduces the concept of antitrans state terrorism and, given the limited studies that exist...

... and political terrain. México has become a hypervigilant, militarized state dominated by the police and narco-power, where precarity and violence are quotidian realities. I, however, have the privilege of a US passport and the freedom to leave, without question, as long as I have a return ticket or my student...

...Curran Nault Abstract Call Her Ganda (dir. PJ Raval, 2018) chronicles the murder of transpinay Jennifer Laude by a US marine, and the subsequent court case. This essay draws from theories of necropolitics and hauntology, as well as the author's experience as a documentary producer of Call Her Ganda...

..., including those well-behaved and socially distant subjects. While militarized police presence has seen an observed uptick in places like the southwestern US states, we read that the detention and deportation of migrants have also increased significantly, as the emergency powers the federal administration...

.... Such an intervention politicizes the corpse by “using the presentation of the dead body to dignify it and avoid its erasure.” As an example, Valencia's article centers an unlikely response to trans sex worker Paola Sánchez Romero's assassination. En route to the cemetery with Paola's body, her compañeras instead...

..., and participants e-mailed their responses. Two further rounds of questions and responses ensued, and participants also viewed the responses of their peers on the roundtable. The questions were intended to generate rigorous dialogue about the uses of and problems associated with political economy (PE) as a lens...