...Jorge Sánchez Cruz Abstract This article positions Teresa Margolles's Ya basta hijos de puta (2018) as a refusal of trans* disappearance created by capitalistic initiatives of renovation, by the failures of the Mexican state, and by transphobic violence. Through the triangulation of three objects...

...Che Gossett; Eva Hayward Abstract The following is an interview with visual performance artist P. Staff conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward. In the interview Staff thinks about kinship and AIDS, “desire and dispossession,” AIDS and art, justice and ACT UP, and a trans aesthetics of refusal...

... from the 1930s where medical protocol was confounded by a black trans patient's refusal to cooperate, the author asks what the silence and unknowability produced around this person's life might do in the service of trans of color studies. Complicated by the fact that federal privacy regulations...

... feminist Beatriz Nascimento. The author argues that Selen's story is an instantiation of trans feminist work that taps on the Afro-diasporic legacy of fugitivity as refusal to lose oneself, even when one's self constitutes transformation, movement. She connects that discussion of fugitivity...

...Ido Katri Abstract In this article, Mizrahi (Jews of Arab descent) and trans legal claims will serve to expose the law as a tactic of stability. These experiences, positioned at the in-between of stable legal categories, embody the “other” of law, the affective ideologies that the law refuses...

.... Based on relationships built over the last four years with trans women of color organizing inside a “male-designated” state prison in Corcoran, California, this article connects questions of deviant care as the refusal of the diagnosable and individuated self through queer black/indigenous feminist...

... restaging. Gender, like self-indulgence, is never accomplished alone. It relies on an audience that either affirms and repeats—or refuses—one's request to be seen and understood in a way that breaks from expectation. I closely read two poems, by Oliver Baez Bendorf and Richard Siken, whose shared centering...

... efforts to refine techniques of governmental reason and strategies of resistance, between attempts to sedentarize trans identities and movements that refuse such settling, or between universalizing imperatives to classify and local demands to reject incorporation into a global schematics of gender...

...Alvaro Jarrín Abstract This article employs Bruno Latour's notion of “translation” to examine the ways by which anglophone discourses of transsexuality are deployed in the Brazilian context. The author argues that transsexuality is utilized by the medical class in ways that refuse to medicalize...

...Anthony Clair Wagner Abstract “Visible Monstrosity as Empowerment” asks, How can we own the transgender imaginary? Anthony Clair Wagner uses the figure of the monster in their art to reflect the stigmatization of monsterized others, specifically transsexuals. Wagner proposes that refusing hegemonic...

...Hannah Wallerstein Abstract This article concerns the concept of “truth” in relation to transgender studies. Historically, transgender claims to gendered truth have been pathologized as either refusing reality or assuming it locatable. In order to listen to such claims with greater rigor...

... memory but as continuing crisis that necessitates desiring into the archive so that we might begin to understand AIDS. Trauma cannot be historically rendered—this is the catastrophe of this experience, past and present are affectively collapsed—so we must be creative in how we refuse to forget a pandemic...

..., and antiviolence organizing for decades. In this interview Gentili discusses her recent performance The Knife Cuts Both Ways , the limits of trans narratives and representation, and how she pushes at the thresholds of those limits such that they seem to break, fold, and corrupt. Gentili refuses the liberal...

... as a victim and trans women as abusive and/or delusional, with an accompanying association of trans women with virtual spaces, set against cis women inhabiting real-world spaces. The newspapers' subsequent, respective refusal to publish counter articles criticizing the opinion pieces is then described...

... to the historicization of the house/ball culture or house-structured ballroom scene. Through a Black feminist imperative, this essay calls on trans studies to refuse the necropolitical logics that assume all the progenitors of the ballroom scene have died. In revisiting the rich cultural archive of the house-structured...

... vocal affectation, musical aesthetic, or capacity for rhythm (though I do mean all those things, too). Instead, I mean blackness as a radical refusal of the movement of reconciliation, and thus, of whiteness. To be black and to be made black is to take seriously the work of refusal, which...

...: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel ( 2016 ) interrogate the continued salience of area studies as a conceptual construct, an epistemology, and a field formation. Given the “strident refusal” (152) of so much recent transnational work on queer sexuality to engage...

... matters for those of us for whom transformation is not a principle of allegory. 1. In rejecting the fixity and telos of the bildungsroman, Acker's engagements and refusals align with the relationship that trans writing bears toward the much-maligned genre of the memoir. Nobody actually wants to write...

... a transatlantic conversation concerning Black representation, commanding the screen with strength and grace like any Blaxploitation heroine of the time. Her characters have some control over their circumstances as they initiate action or refuse and withhold on their own terms. The soul aesthetics of her films...

... of revaluing black, brown, and queer figures (as happens in the work of Kehinde Wiley and Jordan Casteel). In collaging divergent forms and textures together and doing little to, say, bring together color and tone in order to create the semblance of a unified figure, Rodriguez can be further read as refusing...