Contents

Introduction

I. Wednesday Morning

II. Latisha

III. Not Why, but How

IV. Critical Phenomenology

V. Race under Erasure

VI. A Note on Names and Pronouns

1. Comportment

I. Dressing, Telling, Passing

II. In Full Swing

III. Passing: Age and Race

IV. The Banal Arts: Erwin Straus and the Phenomenology of Walking

V. Looking at and Looking for “Homosexuality in America”

VI. The Turn

2. Movement

I. Breaking the Typicality of the World

II. The Simple Click of Her Heel on the Ground

III. The Shock of Gender

IV. Gesture and Meaning

V. Aggression, Projection, Horizon

VI. Suicide

3. Anonymity

I. Everyone and No One, or the Paradox of Phenomenology

II. Otherness and Common Sense

III. “Lawrence King, a Human Being”

IV. Sedimentation and Basal Anonymity

V. Anonymity and Gender

VI. An Ending

4. Objects

I. The Dress and the Boots

II. True Size

III. Ultra-Things

IV. Phenomenological Ethics

V. If Something Wasn’t Done Soon

VI. Retroactive Crossing-Out

Coda: Two Days in February

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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