Full Description
Written by an interdisciplinary collective of authors, this powerful book documents the largely unknown histories and politics of trans lives, activisms, and culture across the post-Yugoslav states.
The volume sheds light on a diversity of gender embodiments and explores how they have navigated the murky waters of war, capitalism, and transphobia while forging a niche for themselves within the regional and transnational LGBTQ movements.
By unleashing the knowledge concentrated in trans lives, this book not only resists trans erasures in Eastern Europe, but also underscores the potential for survival, self-transformation, and engagement in politically challenging circumstances.
Contents
Foreword: The Yellow Brick Road of trans queer survival in Yugoslavia and after - Agatha Milan Đurić
Introduction: In post-Yugoslav trans worlds - Bojan Bilić, Iwo Nord, and Aleksa Milanović
Part 1: Lives
1. Transgender lives in North Macedonia: citizenship, violence, and networks of support - Slavcho Dimitrov
2. The resilience of trans existence through solidarity in Montenegro: (non)pathologising narratives of transgender lives - Jovan Ulićević and Čarna Brković
3. Transgender and non-binary persons, mental health, and gender binarism in Serbia - Jelena Vidić and Bojan Bilić
Part 2: Activisms
4. From survival to activism: tracing trans history in Kosovo from the 1970s onwards - Lura Limani
5. Tortuous paths towards trans futures: the trans movement in Slovenia - Martin Gramc
6. (Post)socialist gender troubles: transphobia in Serbian leftist activism - Bojan Bilić
Part 3: Culture
7. Trans artivism in the post-Yugoslav space: resistance and inclusion strategies in action - Aleksa Milanović
8. 'The truth is what is in the body': an interview with Aleks Zain - Slađana Branković
9. Queering sevdah: gender-nonconformity in the traditional music of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tea Hadžiristić
