Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Foreword: Queer Reading Saves Lives x
5. Introduction: On Queer Reading with Companions 1
6. Companion I: Transing Queer Readings
7. 1. The (Ongoing) History of an Evil Twin: Queer Theory and Transgender Studies 15
8. 2. Flesh and Fluids: The Problem of Sex Determination in Eighteenth-Century Intersex Case Studies 31
9. 3. Trans Reading in South Asia: Taxonomies of Loyalty in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Ānandamaṭh 47
10. 4. Deviant Sexualities, Dissident Citizenships: Queer Performances during El Paro (2019–21) 62
11. 5. Face, Frevo, and Faz que vai (2015): Reading Queer and Trans of Colour Performance between Cosmetic Practice and Stereoscopic Vision 78
12. Companion II: Reading Queer Ecologies
13. 6. Queer Transnational Ecologies: Marrying a Tree 95
14. 7. Hothouse Nature: Fantastic Queer Hybridity in Nineteenth-Century France 108
15. 8. Encountering Queer Becomings in Elizabeth Bishop’s Animal-Human Hybrids 124
16. 9. Erotic Kingdoms: Mating, Materiality, Meaning 141
17. 10. Chicken: A Queer, Visual Ecopoetics 159
18. 11. All Tree, All Shade: The Queer Apocalyptic Ecologies of RuPaul’s Drag Race 174
19. Companion III: Queer Reading as Practice
20. 12. From Buckingham to Varble: Race and Queerness in Early Modern Performance and Appropriations 189
21. 13. Historians of the Closet: Queering the Past in Contemporary Gay, Lesbian, and Trans Fiction 204
22. 14. Sodomites and White Sticks: Close Encounters and Intersections with E. F. Benson and Edward Carpenter 220
23. 15. Staying with the Sodomy at Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman and Nature’s Queer Negativity 236
24. 16. Queering the History of the UK’s Anti-Trafficking Sector 252
25. 17. ‘Friendship as a Way of Life’: Queering Derrida and Cixous’s Aimance 265
26. Companion IV: Reading Queer Futures
27. 18. Viral Antiretroviral Bodies: Queerness, Sex, Contagion 287
28. 19. Listening to Queer Ghosts 304
29. 20. Queering Feminism 319
30. 21. A/biding Time in the Heterocene 335
31. 22. At the Crossroads: Queer Studies and Intersectionality Fatigue 350
32. Afterword: Looking Askance: Reading History, Reading Queerness 365
33. Bibliography 372
34. Notes on Contributors 409
35. Index 413
36. Plates 427