What I especially appreciate about this timely assemblage is that it brings together various and varied cross-disciplinary approaches/perspectives to bear on the effects of borders, categories, categorizations—material and imaginary. These are thought-provoking, critical, not predictable interventions.

Aneil Rallin, author of Dreads and Open Mouths: Living/Teaching/Writing Queerly

We live in a world in which not adhering to dominant ideas, identities, and politics have real, often severe, and in many instances deadly consequences. This volume offers an array of articles, synergistically aligned to challenge us to think about both the absurdity of borders and how they affect everyday people, especially those who do not fit neatly into prescribed boxes. Here is a timely and provocative book that goes where few academic books dare, but should. It is a book we should all have on our shelves, if only to offer alternative rigorous scholarship that re-centers itself on scholars (and scholarship) denied, ignored, or minimized. This is one book we should all be reading.

David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut