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)
Kārlis Vērdiņš and Jānis Ozoliņš
Chapter 9: Religious Experiences in Life Stories of Homosexuals and Bisexuals in Russia (6577)
Polina Kislitsyna
Conclusion: Emily Channell-Justice (1820)