Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Foreword: The Yellow Brick Road of trans queer survival in Yugoslavia and after ix
6. Introduction: In post-Yugoslav trans worlds 1
7. Lives
8. Transgender lives in North Macedonia: citizenship, violence, and networks of support 23
9. The resilience of trans existence through solidarity in Montenegro: (non)pathologising narratives of transgender lives 40
10. Transgender and non-binary persons, mental health, and gender binarism in Serbia 59
11. Activisms
12. From survival to activism: tracing trans history in Kosovo from the 1970s onwards 97
13. Tortuous paths towards trans futures: the trans movement in Slovenia 133
14. (Post)socialist gender troubles: transphobia in Serbian leftist activism 155
15. Culture
16. Trans artivism in the post-Yugoslav space: resistance and inclusion strategies in action 179
17. ‘The truth is what is in the body’: an interview with Aleks Zain 196
18. Queering sevdah: gender-nonconformity in the traditional music of Bosnia and Herzegovina 208
19. Index 227