... move between the politics of the United States and abroad, evidenced in Glenn's cultural productions, also temporally shifts his work toward the creation of a queer, trans Afrofuture. An Afrofuturity sonically, visually, and textually reflected in his video for “Chasing Rainbows,” a track on his...

... appear as the subjects of social or political injury in Indian queer activism or cultural representation. On the other hand, hijra narratives are ubiquitous, perhaps to the point of fetishization; however, through NGO circuits, their stories circulate in tandem with the experiences of men who have sex...

... some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 What is the place of queer in transgender studies? The fields of queer studies and transgender studies are linked through shared histories, methods, and commitments...

...Javier Samper Vendrell The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture . Bauer Heike . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2017 . 230 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 On September 7, 2017, the Lesbian and Gay Federation of Berlin...

... economic importance in the region, and the American invasion of Afghanistan and the consequent destabilization of Pakistan, we are witnessing a renewed interest in the South Asian region. A critical regional approach can help decenter the Euro-American centrism of queer studies not only by providing an...

...Alvin K. Wong Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media Cultures . Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and William F. Schroeder , with Hongwei Bao . Copenhagen : NIAS Press , 2015 . xiii + 274 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...

...Finn Jackson Ballard Wildness Directed by Tsang Wu Documentary, 74 min., United States, 2012 Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Wildness (2012), the first feature film by transgender artist Wu Tsang, follows a group of queer young artists who establish a weekly...

...Kemi Adeyemi Abstract This review of Oliverio Rodriguez's ongoing series The Last Seduction/La Seducción Fatal examines how his images press against European and South American “masters” of painting through explicitly queer and kinky optics. As Rodriguez uses collage techniques to activate the...

...Giancarlo Cornejo Abstract This hybrid essay/narrative attempts to give an account of the survival of a “queer” subject, specifically a trans child living in Lima, Peru, in the 1950s and 1960s. My theoretical claims may be simple, but the survival of this trans child was anything but simple. The...

...Harrison Apple Abstract The Pittsburgh Queer History Project (PQHP) began as an urban archaeological dig of an abandoned after-hours social club. The detritus collected helped construct a history of working-class Pittsburgh, including the lives and labor of trans bodies in the Steel City. A recent...

...Helen Hok-Sze Leung Abstract This article reviews the recent trans programming of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and offers thoughts on the festival's history of trans inclusion and its impact on a “festival public.” Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 film festivals LGBT...

... domestic violence. Making use of their own experiences, the author argues that domestic violence is an issue that all individuals may face, including queer individuals. Heterosexuality as a social default must be questioned, and the author remains hopeful that feminists of all sexualities and genders may...

...Terence Kumpf Abstract While rap music in many countries continues to asphyxiate itself on calcified sexist, cisgendered, and homo/transphobic sentiments and representations, Berlin-based hip-hop activist Sookee strives to forge queer and trans/feminist spaces to provoke dialogue, instigate action...

...Naomi Scheman Abstract The essay is a retrospective reflection on “Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews,” which critically explored the structures of normative intelligibility through a comparison of experiences of unintelligibility. Twenty years...

... which queer theory and dialectical psychoanalysis can constructively inform each other, and the ways in which the author's own “queering” experience contributed significantly to the clinical process. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 cisgender transgender psychoanalysis...

... to a translation of a seventeenth-century Spanish memoir written by Catalina de Erauso. D'Eon and Erauso use both feminine and masculine gender markers to refer to themselves, sometimes in the same sentence. This article examines how queering translation in order to preserve transgender identity can...

...Scott L. Morgensen Abstract Indigenous critics are interrogating the violences of modernity as conditions for understanding or debating gender, alongside critical works in trans studies and in queer-of-color, queer diaspora, and women-of-color feminist theories. This essay asks how two-spirit...

...Pedro Javier DiPietro Abstract Trans, transing, queer, and queering are typically represented as sharing in the antinormalizing labor that concerns material bodies. In the vein of decolonial feminism, this essay looks at three renderings of transing methodologies for what they teach us about: the...

...Amy Ray Stewart Abstract This article engages with the psychoanalytic works of Julia Kristeva in order to demonstrate how trans and queer experiences are shaped and mobilized by a psychic life of revolt. Reorienting the question of resistance toward the threshold of psychical and social life, the...

..., and the resistance to the binary sex/gender system. It also addresses the politics of translating queer in the European context, showing how transfeminism is a critique of Anglo white queer theory and its capacity for disembodiment. The postporn movement—a distinctive feature of Spanish transfeminism...