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IN THIS ISSUE

Essays
Evan Mitchell Schares, “The Suicide of Leelah Alcorn: Whiteness in the Cultural Wake of Dying Queers”

Nan Gearhardt, “Rethinking Trans History and Gay History in Early Twentieth-Century New York”

Kyle Christensen, “Containing Voices of Memory: Lesbianism, Second-Wave Feminism, and the Queer Mnemonic Voice-Outtake in MAKERS: The Women Who Make America” 48

Forum: Queer Trans Culture and Invention Beyond Visibility: Experiencing Cassils
E. Cram, “Prelude to an Encounter”

E. Cram, “Feeling a Monumental Midwest: Reflections from Monument Push”

K. J. Rawson, “Witness, Bystander, or Aggressor? Encountering Cassils”

Charles E. Morris III, “Smelling Cassils”

Daniel C. Brouwer, “Illness as Metaphor in Cassils’s Trans Performance”

Benjamin Zender, “What Might Be Bullets, Fireworks, or Balloons: Repertoires of More than Survival in Cassils’s 103 Shots and Lyle Ashton Harris and Thomas Allen Harris’s Brotherhood, Crossroads and Etcetera 1994”

E. Cram and Cassils, “Cassils: On Violence, Witnessing, and the Making of Trans Worlds”

Book Reviews
Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations, reviewed by Matthew Ringard

Vanessa R Panfil, The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members, reviewed by Taheera Shabazz

Trevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, reviewed by Mallory J. Johnson

Kadji Amin, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History, reviewed by Weisong Gao

About the Author

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Charles E. Morris III teaches Rhetorical Criticism, Social Protest, and Public Memory in the Communication Department at Boston College. He is the editor of Queering Public Address, and co-editor of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest.