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"Transgenderism in the twenty-first century is patriarchy emblazoned in imperial form. At a time when supposedly enlightened attitudes are championed by the mainstream, philosopher and activist Heather Brunskell-Evans shows how, in plain view under the guise of liberalism, a regressive men's rights movement is posing a massive threat to the human rights of women and children everywhere. This movement is transgender politics which, while spouting platitudes about equality, is in reality colonising and erasing the bodies, agency and autonomy of women and children, while asserting men's rights to bodily intrusion into every social and personal space. The transgender agenda redefines diversity and inclusion utilising the language of victimhood. In a complete reversal of feminist gender critical analyses, sex and gender are redefined: identity is now called 'innate' (a 'feeling' located somewhere in the body) and biological sex is said to be socially constructed (and hence changeable). This ensures a lifetime of drug dependency for transitioners, thereby delivering vast profits for Big Pharma in a capitalist dream. Everyone, including every trans person, has the right to live freely without discrimination. But the transgender movement has been hijacked by misogynists who are appropriating and inverting the struggles of feminism to deliver an agenda devoid of feminist principles. In a chilling twist, when feminists critique the patriarchal status quo it is now they who are alleged to be extremists for not allowing men's interests to control the political narrative. Institutions whose purpose is to defend human rights now interpret truth speech as hate speech, and endorse the no-platforming of women as ethical." --

Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.Preciado lays out mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution that will recognize genitalia as technological objects and offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for dismantling the heterocentric social contract. He calls theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Butler, and Haraway to task for not going nearly far enough in their attempts to deconstruct the naturalization of normative identities and behaviors. Preciado's claim that the dildo precedes the penis-that artifice, not nature, comes first in the history of sexuality-forms the basis of his demand for new practices of sexual emancipation. He calls for a world of sexual plasticity and fabrication, of bio-printers and "dildonics," and he invokes countersexuality's roots in the history of sex toys, pornography, and drag in order to rupture the supposedly biological foundations of the heterocentric regime. His claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. The Manifesto is now available in English translation for its twentieth anniversary, with a new introduction by Preciado. Countersexual Manifesto will disrupt feminism and queer theory and scandalize us all with its hyperbolic but deadly serious defiance of everything we've been told about sex.

The Queer Times of Internet Infrastructure and Digital Systems /Daniel Cockayne and Lizzie Richardson --Queer Mobilities and New Spatial Media /Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray --Travel, Tinder and Gender in Digitally Mediated Tourism Encounters /Donna James, Jenna Condie, and Garth Lean --'I get my lovin' on the run': Digital Nomads, Constant Travel, and Nurturing Romantic Relationships /Beverly Yuen Thompson --"There's no one new around you": Queer Women's Experiences of Scarcity in Geospatial Partner-Seeking on Tinder /Stefanie Duguay --Going the Distance: Locative Dating Technology and Queer Male Practice-Based Identities /Sam Miles --Online Dating Practice as a Perfect Example of Interwoven Worlds? Analysis of Communication in Digital and Physical Encounters /Emiel Maliepaard and Jantine van Lisdonk --'I didn't think you were going to sound like that': Sensory Geographies of Grindr Encounters in Public Spaces in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK /Carl Bonner-Thompson --Disrupting Sexism and Sexualities Online? Gender, Activism and Digital Spaces /Jessica McLean and Sophia Maalsen --"I want my story to be heard...": Examining the Production of Digital Stories by Queer Youth in East and South-East Asia /Benjamin Hanckel --'Does Your Mother Know? Digital Versus Material Spaces of Queer Encounter in Singapore' /Jason Luger --Queerying Public Art in Digitally Networked Space: The Rise and Fall of an Inflatable Butt Plug /Martin Zebracki.