Special Issue: Queer Healing and Transformative Justice

Introduction
Introduction to “Queer Healing and Transformative Justice”: A Special Issue of QED
Alexia Arani and Anna Renée Winget

Essays
Depathologization as Healing Justice
S. M. Rodriguez, H Rakes, Kennedy Healy, and Liat Ben-­Moshe

Black Trans Girlhood, Healing, and Transformative Justice in Akwaeke Emezi’s PET
Annie Sansonetti

Entangled Genders: Unraveling Transformative Justice in the Early Childhood Classroom
Dylan Brody

Don’t Count on Us Dying: Carceral Accuracy and Trans-­of-­Color Life Beyond Hate Crimes
Ren-­yo Hwang

Forum
Research as a Practice of Collective Care and Resistance: A Roundtable Conversation with Transmasculine Health Justice: Los Angeles
Sid Jordan and Cydney Brown (authors); Ezak Perez, Gia Ryan Olaes Miramontes, Héctor Planscencia, Jaden Fields, Luckie Alexander, and Lylliam Posadas (contributors)

Stay Mad: A Love Letter to QTBIPOC Psychiatric Survivors
Elliott Fukui

dear abled america
Theresa Gao

No Justice, No Peace: Queer Afghans in Life and Death, from Home to Diasporas
Ahmad Qais Munhazim and Wazina Zondon

(in betweens of healing)
Elias Bouderdaben

Queer(ing) Healing: Reimagining Wellness through Drama Therapy during the Dual Pandemics
Cass Manalastas and Dana Sayre

Solace in the Stars: Queer Astrology, Capitalism, and Colonialism
Christopher Joseph Lee

Embodied Digital Ecologies: A Healing Justice Analysis of How to Survive the End of the World
AK Wright

A Tendr Scene: VR as Visionary Reality, Prototyping Radical Care and Queer Futurities
G Yi

The Magic of the Margins: Rethinking Healing from the Perspective of Queer Exile
Ahmed Awadalla

Survivors “Surviving Well” and “Surviving Poorly”: Reflections on the Limitations and Possibilities of Transformative Justice
Sandra J.

“How We Are with Each Other”: Conversations on Queer Healing and Black Liberation
Qui D. Alexander and Charlene A. Carruthers

Queer Conversation
Queer Behind the Wall: Prison Survival, Self-­Love, and Community 
Alisha Kohn, Paris E. Whitfield, Kitty Rotolo, and Brian Boles, edited by Jasmine K. Syedullah

Book Reviews
Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation, by April Sizemore-­Barber
Kholofelo M. K. Theledi

Brown Trans Figuration: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies, by Francisco J. Galarte
Michael Tristano, Jr.

Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, by Derritt Mason
Odhran O’Donoghue

Navigating Remarkable Communication Experiences of Sexual Minorities, by Yachao Li and Jennifer A. Samp
Pamela J. Lannutti

Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of “Illegal” Immigrant, by Lisa A. Flores
Oscar Alfonso Mejía

Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalism in the Filipina/o Diaspora, by Gina K. Velasco
Anh A. T. Nguyen

Film Review
Montero (Call Me by Your Name), directed by Lil Nas X and Tanu Muino
K. Scarlett Harrington