Contents

 

 

 


 

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Prologue

SUNERA THOBANI

Introduction

JIN HARITAWORN, ADI KUNTSMAN, AND SILVIA POSOCCO

PART I
Death worlds

1 We will not rest in peace: AIDS activism, black radicalism, queer and/or trans resistance

CHE GOSSETT

2 (Hyper/in)visibility and the military corps(e)

MICHELLE R. MARTIN-BARON

3 On the queer necropolitics of transnational adoption in Guatemala

SILVIA POSOCCO

PART II
Wars and borderzones

4 Killing me softly with your rights: queer death and the politics of rightful killing

SIMA SHAKHSARI

5 Black skin splits: the birth (and death) of the queer Palestinian

JASON RITCHIE

6 Trans feminine value, racialized others and the limits of necropolitics

AREN Z. AIZURA

PART III
Incarceration

7 Queer investments in punitiveness: sexual citizenship, social movements and the expanding carceral state

SARAH LAMBLE

8 ‘Walking while transgender’: necropolitical regulations of trans feminine bodies of colour in the US nation’s capital

ELIJAH ADIV EDELMAN

9 Queer politics and anti-blackness

MORGAN BASSICHIS AND DEAN SPADE

Index