Project MUSE®: QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USInaugural Issue (2013)Latest Articles: QED: A Journal in GLBTQ WorldmakingTWOProject MUSE®QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking2327-15902327-1574Latest articles in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. Feed provided by Project MUSE®What Does It Mean to Be Queer in This Moment?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985287
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After fifty years (or so) of Gay Liberation, several rights seemed enshrined. Marriage was once considered impossible, yet we have lived with marriage equality since 2001 (in the Netherlands). Now thirty-eight countries recognize same-sex marriage as the same as heterosexual marriage. GLTBQ identity has been considered a protected class for over 100 years in some countries. Since the 1970s, homosexuality has not been considered a mental illness in the United States. We have lived through many iterations of "gay rights" where some identities are acknowledged and others are not, where some concerns are central and others are not. These have largely been around gender, race, class, disability, religion and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallWhat Does It Mean to Be Queer in This Moment?2026-03-17text/htmlen-USWhat Does It Mean to Be Queer in This Moment?2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®117262026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Swasarnt Nerf's Calculus of the Closet
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985288
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Is it the décor, the identities of the clientele or management, the music playing on the jukebox, or is it as obvious as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's quip about obscenity: "I know it when I see it?"1 In the frigid predawn hours of February 4, 1953, an off-duty New York City cop thought he knew it by the "female way" of the fifteen or so men "telling jokes and stories" in the Fifth Avenue Bar of the Stanwood Cafeteria. When a patron approached the cop gamely, the officer made his move, arresting the patron on a degeneracy charge to which he quickly, almost routinely, pled guilty. A subsequent investigation by the State Liquor Authority led to the summary revocation of the Stanwood Cafeteria's liquor
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallSwasarnt Nerf's Calculus of the Closet2026-03-17text/htmlen-USSwasarnt Nerf's Calculus of the Closet2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®1189352026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Escaping the Point: On Trans Visibility and the Art of Edie Fake
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985289
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"The truth claim is always a claim and lurking behind it is a suspicion of fakery, even if the default mode is belief.""What are the stakes of familiarity, when familiarity breeds contempt?"Page 40 of Edie Fake's 2011 graphic novel Gaylord Phoenix features a striking image: a masculine-looking cartoon figure sits on a tree stump, plunging what appears to be a dagger or sharp instrument into his right thigh. As he opens his mouth in either pain or relief (or a combination of the two affects approaching ecstasy), a complex mass of geometric shapes, patterns, and cloud formations spills out of his leg and floats up into the air above him (see Figure 1). First encountering this image in 2016, I was sharply arrested by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallEscaping the Point: On Trans Visibility and the Art of Edie Fake2026-03-17text/htmlen-USEscaping the Point: On Trans Visibility and the Art of Edie Fake2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®746252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Capturing Jeff
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985290
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This all starts with Jeff. From December 1981 until February 1986, Jeff and I were lovers. We met at a holiday party and connected the moment we met. Three months after we first met, we were living together in his Upper West Side apartment. Six months later, everything changed. In September 1982, on his 30th birthday as a matter of fact, he was diagnosed with Kaposi Sarcoma, a rare cancer. Not too long after, we learned that Jeff had AIDS and at that time, AIDS = Death. We remained together until he died on February 11, 1986.Jeff holds a special place in my heart, a place that no other lover has ever occupied. It's also a complex position because Jeff is the lover who died when we were together. The one who got
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallCapturing Jeff2026-03-17text/htmlen-USCapturing Jeff2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®346572026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Fugitive Freedom Dreaming (2024)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985291
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I am obsessed with places that are at once "beautiful" and yet almost always give me an acute awareness of a haunting. Since 2020, I have been creating experimental films at historic sites of Black land ownership that signify traditions of freedom building that have often been intentionally erased as critical sites of resistance and agency.Fugitive Freedom Dreaming begins with an establishing shot of a sunny forest area on a spring morning at Fort Mosé Historic State Park, located in St. Augustine, Florida. Spanning the summers of 2022 to 2023, I traveled to this site, danced in its corners while visitors walked through often asking me for directions, watched historic reenactments, listened to birds, and employed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallFugitive Freedom Dreaming (2024)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USFugitive Freedom Dreaming (2024)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®144992026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Introduction to Part 1: Policy and Resistance
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985292
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If queer—as political project, as identitarian refusal, as peculiar epistemology, as unfiltered joy-in-relation—has taught us anything, it is how to navigate, survive, and thrive in unprecedented times and under dire circumstances. In toiling against rising authoritarianism near and far, we turn to and call upon queer thinkers, artists, activists, teachers, comrades, perverts, and kinksters to light the way—including across the pages of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, which are lined with powerful works and reflections from visionary world-makers who've carved out resistant intellectual and creative space in queer- and trans-affirming terms.1We are penning this forum introduction just after the 100-day mark of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallIntroduction to Part 1: Policy and Resistance2026-03-17text/htmlen-USIntroduction to Part 1: Policy and Resistance2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®346812026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Backsliding on Progress: The Trump Administration's Assault on LGBTQI+ and HIV Health Equity—A Domestic and Global Reckoning
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985293
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The assault on LGBTQI+ and HIV health equity has been swift and severe since President Trump's inauguration. The new administration wasted no time undermining LGBTQI+ health and the health of people living with HIV, both globally and domestically, through the unraveling of PEPFAR and USAID to the removal of entire offices focused on domestic HIV prevention and removing LGBTQI+ demographic measures in health surveys. As two senior political appointees from the Biden administration, we had a front row seat to policy-making and a unique vantage point on the impact of public policy on the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ people and people living with HIV.There is a false narrative that often silos global and domestic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallBacksliding on Progress: The Trump Administration's Assault on LGBTQI+ and HIV Health Equity—A Domestic and Global Reckoning2026-03-17text/htmlen-USBacksliding on Progress: The Trump Administration's Assault on LGBTQI+ and HIV Health Equity—A Domestic and Global Reckoning2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®570192026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17On Activism, Knowledge Generation, and Global Movements for Human Rights
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985294
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On Friday, January 24, 2025, at 10:29 pm, we received stop-work orders on a US$2.5 million, five-year multinational evaluation of the US government's contribution to advancing human rights. The project, led by Dazzo and Miller, and on which Ayala served as one of seven expert advisers, focused on the US Department of State's Global Equality Fund (GEF), the world's largest funding portfolio in defense of human rights for LGBTQI+ people. The evaluation also focused on three other portfolios supporting human rights for marginalized populations—women and girls, persons with disabilities, racial and Indigenous minorities—and people at the intersection of all four of these identity groups. The GEF was our principal focus
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallOn Activism, Knowledge Generation, and Global Movements for Human Rights2026-03-17text/htmlen-USOn Activism, Knowledge Generation, and Global Movements for Human Rights2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®310082026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Fragmented, Frustrated, Hurting and Holding: An Unfinished Conversation between Members of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985295
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What Would an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD?) is a community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS crisis. We understand a doula as someone who holds space during times of transition. We understand HIV as a series of transitions that begin long before being tested, that continue after treatment and beyond. We know that because no one gets HIV alone, no one should have to live with HIV alone. We doula ourselves, each other, institutions, and culture. Foundational to our process is asking questions.The term "transition" is inadequate for the shocks, disruptions, infringements, detentions of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. In this short time, we are having common experiences while also
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallFragmented, Frustrated, Hurting and Holding: An Unfinished Conversation between Members of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective2026-03-17text/htmlen-USFragmented, Frustrated, Hurting and Holding: An Unfinished Conversation between Members of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®300162026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17On Trans-Generational (Well)Being and the Rising Threat of Erasure
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985296
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Transgender and gender-expansive (or trans) Americans have been the target of escalating political attacks that undermine their rights as citizens and as human beings. From the start of the second Trump administration, the White House ambushed trans communities with a dozen executive orders across multiple domains, including health care, education, military service, and civil rights.1 This series of declarations constitutes nearly 12 percent of all executive orders signed within the first two months of Trump's presidency.2 At the same time, over 800 antitransgender bills had been introduced in states across the country, a nearly six-fold increase in just four years.3 The swift propagation of political vitriol
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallOn Trans-Generational (Well)Being and the Rising Threat of Erasure2026-03-17text/htmlen-USOn Trans-Generational (Well)Being and the Rising Threat of Erasure2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®585232026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Exclusion Under the Guise of Readiness: The Trump Administration's Systemic Discrimination of Transgender Personnel
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985297
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On January 27, 2025, the Trump administration signed Executive Order (EO) 14183: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness, effectively forcing transgender service members who "express a false gender identity divergent from an individual's sex" to resign from the US military.1 This policy reinstates and expands upon previous bans targeting transgender individuals, framing their existence as detrimental to military effectiveness and unit cohesion. By classifying gender dysphoria alongside personality disorders and disqualifying those who have undergone gender-affirming medical care, the order perpetuates harmful stereotypes that transgender individuals lack discipline (i.e., need coddling) and integrity (i.e.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallExclusion Under the Guise of Readiness: The Trump Administration's Systemic Discrimination of Transgender Personnel2026-03-17text/htmlen-USExclusion Under the Guise of Readiness: The Trump Administration's Systemic Discrimination of Transgender Personnel2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®268152026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17New Executive Orders' Impact on Research and Clinical Trajectories: Barriers to the Development of Early-Stage Investigators
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985298
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In 2022, more than 55,000 doctoral degrees were awarded, over 34,000 medical students were matched, and upwards of 62,000 postdoctoral trainees1 began their careers in the United States, representing a new generation of providers and researchers. Compared to prior cohorts, current doctoral and postdoctoral trainees report being driven by social change, racial equity, and environmental awareness issues.2 At the same time, these early-stage investigators (ESIs) struggle with burnout, financial pressures, and job security,3 particularly when addressing health disparities for historically and intentionally excluded individuals (HIEI).4These struggles have been exacerbated by the Trump administration's executive orders
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallNew Executive Orders' Impact on Research and Clinical Trajectories: Barriers to the Development of Early-Stage Investigators2026-03-17text/htmlen-USNew Executive Orders' Impact on Research and Clinical Trajectories: Barriers to the Development of Early-Stage Investigators2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®913962026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17A Burning of Books: Another Attempt to Continue Erasure and Necropolitics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985299
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On February 7, 2025, I sat down at my computer to begin my workday as an LGBTQ+ health equity research specialist and recognized right away that I could not access government reports detailing the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse communities, as well as people with intersex variations, from several government websites. It was an experience eerily reminiscent of the burning of Mayan codices at the hands of missionary priests in the sixteenth century in Mexico1 and the book burnings that occurred almost 100 years ago in Germany.2 Whereas the codices were burned during the Spanish conquest and the books during Nazi Germany, the critical content3 on trans, nonbinary, gender diverse, and people with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallA Burning of Books: Another Attempt to Continue Erasure and Necropolitics2026-03-17text/htmlen-USA Burning of Books: Another Attempt to Continue Erasure and Necropolitics2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®498472026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Constellations of Resistance: Intimacy and Imagination in the Deep South
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985300
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There's a peculiar intimacy to having fallen in love against the backdrop of this regime's rise to power. We—Brynn a trans-nonbinary human who moved to Alabama from the Midwest two years ago, and Evelyn, a trans woman from Alabama—met in October 2024. For us, January 20, 2025 should just have been the first time Evelyn met some of Brynn's friends—one of those normal, delightful parts of being new lovers still learning about each other's lives. Instead, that day for us was defined by an Executive-Order-level reminder that trans existence, survival, joy, and love are being collapsed into a threat. Somehow, that combination—the intimacy cultivated together set against such intimate harm—made it all the more
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallConstellations of Resistance: Intimacy and Imagination in the Deep South2026-03-17text/htmlen-USConstellations of Resistance: Intimacy and Imagination in the Deep South2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®279582026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17When Your Existence is a Political Act: Rural Queers during Trump's (Second) First Ninety Days
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985301
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Whenever anti-Trans legislation passes in Wyoming someone online inevitably comments, "Well, of course Wyoming would pass that, that's the state that killed Matthew Shepard."1 Wyoming is quickly written off as the most politically conservative state in the United States.2 Outsiders tend to look at Wyoming as the reddest shade of neck on the whitest shade of trash.With Donald Trump's election to a second term, we cannot help but wonder if anyone else has applied this same logic: "Well of course America would elect him, that's the country that killed Matthew Shepard and Tamir Rice and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and …" the list goes on. It is easier to write off somewhere you are not a resident, somewhere the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallWhen Your Existence is a Political Act: Rural Queers during Trump's (Second) First Ninety Days2026-03-17text/htmlen-USWhen Your Existence is a Political Act: Rural Queers during Trump's (Second) First Ninety Days2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®426562026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Critical Hope and Resistance through Collective Poetic Inquiry: A Response to Federal Attacks on Queer and Trans Communities by Scholar-Advocates
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985302
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We, a collective of scholars situated in an academic social work program, turned to poetry—specifically, collaborative poetic inquiry—as both a method and a mode of resistance.In early 2025, the US federal government launched sweeping and targeted attacks on queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive (QT and TGE) communities across the United States with the most harmful attacks directed at TGE youth and adults and those situated at marginalized sociostructural intersections (e.g., TGE immigrants—particularly those who are undocumented—people living with HIV, racialized, and disabled individuals).As scholars who sit at the intersections of marginalized sociostructural locations, are allies/accomplices to QT/TGE
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallCritical Hope and Resistance through Collective Poetic Inquiry: A Response to Federal Attacks on Queer and Trans Communities by Scholar-Advocates2026-03-17text/htmlen-USCritical Hope and Resistance through Collective Poetic Inquiry: A Response to Federal Attacks on Queer and Trans Communities by Scholar-Advocates2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®381882026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Holding Boundaries and Building Guardrails in an Era of Strategic Visibility
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985303
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In the spring of 2025, amid heightened transantagonism and orchestrated moral panic, the notion of trans visibility—long treated as a metric of progress in mainstream LGBTQ politics—demands critical reevaluation. Over the past decade, visibility has produced a rolling momentum: increased media attention, representational gains, and cultural recognition have been met with escalating scrutiny, surveillance, and violence. This dynamic has intensified under the second term of the Trump administration and the global rise of conservatism, where trans youth have become the focal point—and often the scapegoat—of broader ideological battles over gender, citizenship, and state power.Within this volatile landscape, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallHolding Boundaries and Building Guardrails in an Era of Strategic Visibility2026-03-17text/htmlen-USHolding Boundaries and Building Guardrails in an Era of Strategic Visibility2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®304042026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Resistance or Surveillance: The Complexities of Being Counted in Trans Research "Right Now"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985304
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In a society bent on eradicating transness entirely, being counted can be a double-edged sword. Questions were raised about the utility of quantitative research as a resistance strategy before the 2024 US election,1 but these questions take on new urgency in the wake of sweeping legislation and executive orders that define trans people out of existence.2 As a transmasculine nonbinary person conducting primarily quantitative research, I continually wrestle with how to critically employ historically harmful methods for the purpose of resisting epistemic violence and oppressive systems. I am currently using a participatory approach to create a quantitative measure of trans-specific dissociation, collaborating with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallResistance or Surveillance: The Complexities of Being Counted in Trans Research "Right Now"2026-03-17text/htmlen-USResistance or Surveillance: The Complexities of Being Counted in Trans Research "Right Now"2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®407142026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Queer Conversation with Martin F. Manalansan IV: Mess, Mundane, and Minoritarian Subjects
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985305
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Thank you for being with us, Martin. My name is Angela Labador. I'm from De La Salle University (DLSU), and here with me is Ruepert.Hi, I'm Ruepert. I'm Angela's colleague at the Department of Communication at DLSU. I'm doing research on digital queer cultures, and recently, on queer migration. I find your work really inspiring and useful.I first encountered your work, Martin, as an MA student in Manila. I was doing representations of kabaklaan on Philippine noontime television. That interest on queer representations and queer lives became the focus of my dissertation, specifically on gay pornography on X. I became fascinated by your work when I started investigating Filipino queer migrations in Hong Kong. I am
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallQueer Conversation with Martin F. Manalansan IV: Mess, Mundane, and Minoritarian Subjects2026-03-17text/htmlen-USQueer Conversation with Martin F. Manalansan IV: Mess, Mundane, and Minoritarian Subjects2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®444252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE): Queer Worlds
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985306
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In 2009, there was increasing awareness of the challenges faced by LGBTI people globally, but the prevailing theory of change was one that followed a trickle-down approach that prioritized securing sexual orientation rights, with the assumption that these would eventually extend to address gender identity issues. Mainstream human rights organizations, donors, and official institutions generally regarded gender identity-related issues as too controversial and complex to address head-on. At the same time, the rise in violence specifically targeting trans and gender-diverse communities was reaching epidemic proportions and the marginalization of these communities within wider LGBTI activism was having devastating
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallGlobal Action for Trans Equality (GATE): Queer Worlds2026-03-17text/htmlen-USGlobal Action for Trans Equality (GATE): Queer Worlds2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®99572026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17"If we control our narratives, we shape our destiny": Spotlighting The Counter Narrative Project
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985307
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In his poem, "For My Own Protection," Black gay author Essex Hemphill exhorts, "I want to start an organization to save my life." Essex succumbed to AIDS-related complications at the age of thirty-five, but his plea and legacy live on at The Counter Narrative Project (CNP).Founded in 2014, CNP emerged as a necessary force at the intersection of storytelling and social justice for Black queer men. With a mission to "shift narratives about Black gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men to change policy and improve lives," CNP frequently tackles stigmatized and underdiscussed topics such as HIV, mental health, and Black queer representation in sports and popular culture. Whether through powerful
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmall"If we control our narratives, we shape our destiny": Spotlighting The Counter Narrative Project2026-03-17text/htmlen-US"If we control our narratives, we shape our destiny": Spotlighting The Counter Narrative Project2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®153112026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985308
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A worldview produced by trauma … is one that is understandable but not, in the end, of any epistemic value. Feeling bad, they seem to say, obscures rather than clarifies, produces unreliable knowledge about the world. Curious. We seem to have found ourselves in familiar territory.Since the publication of Cameron Awkward-Rich's The Terrible We in late 2022, much of the trans discourse has shifted in the United States, and simultaneously much has also remained the same. Trans-antagonism continues to haunt the United States, which is particularly clear in 2025, with the second iteration of Trump's administration actively targeting trans communities through legislative measures that combat "gender ideology."1 Despite
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallThe Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USThe Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®157932026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985309
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Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others focuses on a unique type of relationship: "friends who have become a we, despite having no scripts, no ceremonies, and precious few models to guide them toward long-term platonic commitment" (6). Each chapter profiles a set of friends with this type of relationship and challenges deep-rooted social assumptions about meaningful relationships through their examples. Throughout the book, provocative questions frame that challenge: What do these friendships look like, and why are they so incomprehensible to other people and to the systems that govern US and Canadian society? What do relationships really require—is sex essential to partnership, a familial relationship to elder
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/639/image/coversmallThe Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen (review)2026-03-17text/htmlen-USThe Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen (review)2026-03-172026TWOProject MUSE®113542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-17