Emily Channell-Justice is the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.

Preface: Vitaly Chernetsky

Introduction: Of Constatives, Performatives, and Disidentifications: Decolonizing Queer Critique in Post-socialist Times (5606)

Tamar Shirinian and Emily Channell-Justice

Section 1: The Categories Themselves

Chapter 1: Body Politics, Trans*Imaginary, and Decoloniality (6859)

Tjaša Kancler

Chapter 2: Queering Categories: Recognition, Misrecognition, and Identity Politics in Armenia (7753)

Tamar Shirinian

Chapter 3: Escaping the Dichotomies of 'Good' and 'Bad': Chronotopes of Queerness in Kyrgyzstan (6815)

Syinat Sultanaieva

Section 2: Queer in Public

Chapter 4: LGBT+ Rights, European Values, and Radical Critique: Leftist Challenges to LGBT+ Mainstreaming in Ukraine (7922)

Emily Channell-Justice

Chapter 5: Queering the Soviet Pribaltika: Criminal Cases of Consensual Sodomy in Soviet Latvia (1960s-1980s) (7796)

Feruza Aripova

Chapter 6: Queer People and the Criminal Justice System in Ukraine: Negotiating Relationships, Historical Trauma and Contemporary Western Discourses (7655)

Roman Leksikov

Section 3: Decolonizing Queer Performance

Chapter 7: Stifled Monstrosities: Gender-Transgressive Motifs in Kazakh Folklore (7553)

Zhanar Sekerbayeva

Chapter 8: "Pugacheva for the People": Two Portraits of Non-Urban Post-Soviet Queer Performers (7751)

K¿rlis V¿rdi¿š and J¿nis Ozoli¿š

Chapter 9: Religious Experiences in Life Stories of Homosexuals and Bisexuals in Russia (6577)

Polina Kislitsyna

Conclusion: Emily Channell-Justice (1820)