..., as, for example, offering critical accounts of biometric surveillance in airport security (chap. 6). These connections offer, in addition to a description of the socioeconomic context of trans activism, a refined depiction of the uneven access to political and economic resources by trans and LGB activism. Further...

... that always already has a necessary relationship to (anti)-Blackness. Nightlife's aesthetic and political education unfolds across each of the book's six main chapters, which span themes such as the aesthetics of party invites (chap. 1), creative queer and trans navigations of laws banning public dancing...

...” (38). The first part of the book, then, aims to denaturalize “sex” as well as “the state” by deftly glossing the historical concepts of sex and gender (chap. 1), popular sovereignty (chap. 2), and social theories of deconstruction (chap. 3). Motivated by the insight that “we don't know what a politics...

...Yahia Zhengtang Ma The strength of the publication lies not in its extensive investigation of the semiosphere and translation (chap. 2) or the engagement with the probinary and antibinary language based on the theory of heteroglossia (chap. 3), but rather in the transdisciplinary development...

... that points to how what Sianne Ngai ( 2005 : chap. 2) describes as rhetorics of the excessive animatedness of people of color are deployed in official HIV/AIDS narratives, and also how those narratives occlude gender plasticity. As Fertile gives birth, we do not see her offspring; the frame lingers on her...

...-nonconforming discrimination was that trans people are not what the law meant when it prohibited sex discrimination, for they are not exactly legal “men” or “women” (Sharpe 2002 : chap. 7). Belonging to a protected category is a necessary condition for recognition within antidiscrimination laws. 3 Reading...

... their transition” (Munce 2021 ). Sources outside government are happy to chime in as well, reiterating the premise that an increase in trans youth is a problem that requires intervention, that is, reduction. Kathleen Stock ( 2021 : chap. 1) claims she is “critical of gender identity theory—not of trans people...

... and is presented as deep terrifying waters. The tehom is widely understood by most scholars to be related to the Babylonian goddess Tiamat, who represents oceanic chaos. Deryn Guest makes this claim in “Troubling the Waters,” chap. 2 of Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation (Guest and Hornsby 2016...

... : Kluwer Academic . Warner Marina . 1981 . Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism . Berkeley : University of California Press . 2. The key source on the subject is still John Anson 1974 . See also Valerie Hotchkiss 1996 , Elizabeth Castelli 1991 , Margaret Miles 1991 (esp. chap...

... of their public personas, resist categorization. In Najmabadi's generally readable prose, the bulk of the book (chaps. 2–6) shows the accumulated layers of discourse around nonheteronormativity. From the sediment of curiosity and scientism, Najmabadi unearths the various tropes of the twentieth century...

... and especially in the form of un- and low-waged reproductive labour” (24). 1. See particularly chaps. 1 and 2. Trans Marxisms, trans materialisms, and trans critiques of capitalism are already here—practiced by writers like McKenzie Wark, Jordy Rosenberg, Nat Raha, Emma Heaney, Jules Gleeson, Kay...

...-determination” are exactly what extend its power (Walcott 2021 : 66)? Namely, X proves an opportune moment to query the stakes of gender self-determination and its “axiomatic” status in trans studies (Bey 2020 : chap. 5). While the CHRA has—at least on paper—transformed the conversation from genitals...

... gay activism and academia (Wilson 2004 : chap. 3) amid the politico-scientific conflict of sexual orientation as biological or socially constructed. These precedents pave the way for the neuroscientific understanding of transgender people, as the research on sex difference in the brain provides...

... broadly, see Jacobson ( 2006 : chap. 6), who argues it was part of a broader cultural turn toward ethnicity on the part of white people in the US postwar period, an ethnic revivalism that evaded white privilege and reconsolidated American nationalism. Indeed, at the time, many feminists argued...

...) on the kind of curiosity that constricts trans experience. See Snorton 2017 , especally chap. 5, for a discussion of the perpetual emphasis of newness in relation to the media coverage of Brandon Teena's murder. The point could also be extended to analyze the similar rhetoric at work in the coverage...

... to transness, and vice versa, see, for example, Clare 2013 ; Adair 2015 ; Kafer 2013 ; Baril 2015 ; and Vitulli 2018 . 2. For an account of the vexed relationship between gender nonconformity and disability law, see Colker 2005 : chap. 2. 1. On the ADA as a moralizing document, see Barry...

... . 15. In the British colonial view, the khwajasarais , unlike hijras, were not “habitual criminals” and sexual “deviants.” 14. On the history and usage of the term, see Khan 2019 and Hamzić 2016 : chap. 4. 13. Khunsa-e-mushkil refers to “intractable” sex/gender as per classical...

... a logic that may also relate to a long history of exoticizing Western representations made about Southeast Asia (see Lim 2014 : chap. 1). Yet, while this may be the case, my observations suggest that waria understand them according to other criteria. The question that I pose in this article is, why...

... on their bodies: “Intersexuality has a biological basis, whereas this book will argue that ‘gender identity’ is a mental condition” (Jeffreys, 9). 8. For a critique of this theory, see Elliot 2010 : chap. 5. 9. It is interesting to note in this context that Jeffreys actually poses the question...

... or invent strategies for black and trans life in the present/future. The second is a persistent preoccupation, framed as a question of how does one chart a life (or, as it relates to the consternating question of agency, what Jennifer Morgan [ 2004 : chap. 6] writes in terms of resistance or accommodation...