Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I – Bodies, Sexuality, and Taboos

Chapter 1: The Return of the Porn Wars: Liberation through Pornography – Kimberly Hernandez
Chapter 2: Reimagining Power: Women In Profit Driven Settings – Catherine Galvan
Chapter 3: Artistic Defiance: Utilizing the Power of the Erotic and Sexuality – India Reinhardt
Chapter 4: Queerness and Sex Work in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Link Between Oppression and Survival – Ilma Turcios
Chapter 5: “They’re Mutilating Little Girls”: How Narratives of Transphobia Rely on Ableist
Conceptions, Eugenics, and Reproductive Futurism – Audrey Strevey

Part II – Bodies, Sexuality, and Technology
Chapter 6: Beyond Bodies: Navigating Techno-Intimacy and Risk in Post-Human Feminism – Ireland Griffin
Chapter 7: “A Man, a House, and a Normal Fucking Life”: An Analysis of Gender Clinics and the
Academic Discourse Surrounding Transsexuality – Nolwenn Sharp

Part III – Black, Indigenous, and Decolonial Alternatives
Chapter 8: Black Bodies Through a Black Lens: How Megan Thee Stallion’s Shooting Reflects Colonial Perceptions – Alyssa Coleman
Chapter 9: “Sure Got to Prove it On Me”: Queer Feminist Legacies in Gertrude “Ma” Rainey’s Blues –Arenaria Cramer
Chapter 10: One and the Same: Examining the Shared Histories of Exploitation Between Radicalized Women and Land – Daniella Hernandez-Garcia
Chapter 11: Queering the Sex Binary: Decolonial Biology – Dani LaLuzerne
Chapter 12: Colonial Gender, Masculine Violence, and Indigenous Masculinities as Resistance – Camille Townsend
Chapter 13: Exploring Transnational Feminism and Indigenous Feminisms in Filmmaking – Emrys Yamanishi

Part IV – Emancipatory Politics and Social Movements
Chapter 14: Pleasure Politics: An Expansion of “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” – Abby Gonzalez
Chapter 15: Human Activists (and Martyrs) of México – Elizabeth Palomares
Chapter 16: Modern Day Intersectionality: How Did We Get Here? – Sofia Presser

Conclusion