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Front Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Alienizing Nation -- Part One. Alienizing Logic and Structure -- 1. A Brief Rhetorical History of Quarantine -- 2. AIDS and the Rhetoric of Quarantine -- 3. National Common Sense and the Ban on HIV-Positive Migrants -- Part Two. Resisting Alienizing Logic -- 4. Boycotts and Protests of the International AIDS Conferences -- 5. AIDS Activist Media and the "Haitian Connection" -- Conclusion: Against the Alienizing Nation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

"More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez's edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies. Bridging voices and works from inside and outside of the academy, and international in scope, Queer and Trans Migrations illuminates new perspectives in the field of queer and trans migration studies"--

Accusations of madness have long been hurled at queer and feminist bodies, and typically when people are deemed mad, they are granted little agency. This article attempts to read madness as potentially agentic when it manifests as what we call a "queer performativity of madness." Using the writing of and rhetoric surrounding Valerie Solanas, the infamous radical feminist known for shooting Andy Warhol, we develop the notion of a queer performativity of madness and show how historical figures like Solanas read against the binary oppositions that often create our understanding of sexuality, reason, and politics. Though madness does not always supply agency, we suggest that rethinking madness offers fruitful resources for feminist and queer theory.