WSQ: UNBEARABLE BEING(S)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Note
Shereen Inayatulla and Andie Silva

Cecilia Gentili, Unbearable Revolutionary
Marci Blackman

Introduction: Theorizing the Unbearable
Debarati Biswas and Laura Westengard

SECTION I. MEDITATION ON THE UNBEARABLE

We are fine, how about you?
Neferti X. M. Tadiar

SECTION II. ARTICLES

To Render a Black World
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman

Forgetting: Loss, Invention, and Unbearable Life
James Bliss

“It had been rather good”: Recovering Joy through the Practice of Black Resistance inside the Kitchenette
Summer Hamilton

Compulsory Etiquette: Emotionality and the Constraints of Urban Indigenous Life
Morgan L. Ridgway

Living the City: On Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Peter Hitchcock

“Missing the Mark”: Objectified Fantasies of Self and Other in Commercial BDSM
Kassandra Sparks

Sissy the Archive: Ambivalent Intimacies between “Sissy” and “Trans” in Trans* Archives and Contemporary Fiction
Spenser Shelley Feller

“The Kiss and the Cut”: Reassembling the Techno-Orientalist Clone through Multispecies Grief and Intimacy in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu
Jennifer Cho

SECTION III. VISUAL ART

natural history (cow spine)
Susan Silas

From Genocide to Gentrification
Damali Abrams

Scream Against It All
elin o’Hara slavick

SECTION IV. CONVERSATIONS ON THE UNBEARABLE

We Must Abolish the Conditions of the Unbearable: A Conversation with Marquis Bey
Jess A. Goldberg

Strategies for Liberation: A Conversation with Katherine McKittrick
Kristin Moriah

SECTION V. POETRY

Aunt Sarah (The Process of Storage or Place of Exchange or Sarah’s Pedagogical Pan/Orama)
Sherese Francis

SECTION VI. CLASSICS REVISITED

Directed by Desire: June Jordan’s Intifada Incantations
Conor Tomás Reed

On Rereading Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Kirin Wachter-Grene

The Unbearable City—Mike Davis’s Ecology of Fear
Erik Wallenberg

SECTION VII. CREATIVE PROSE

a critical love letter to my ancestors: perhaps a therapeutics of recognition?
Gracelynn Chung-yan Lau

Happy Our
Em Eason

Bodies
Lan Anh Chu

SECTION VIII. BOOK REVIEWS

Review of River Life and the Upspring of Nature by Naveeda Khan
Robert Azzarello

Review of New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University by Conor Tomás Reed
Megan Behrent

Review of Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State by Christopher Perreira
Nayeli Rincon

SECTION IX. ALERTS AND PROVOCATIONS

On the Unbearable
Juana María Rodríguez

SECTION X. LIVING WITHIN AND BEYOND THE UNBEARABLE

Rehearsals for Living Within the Unbearable: Tracking Possibilities of Love and Solidarity in Black Art and Literature
Debarati Biswas

Transformations No. 2
Nadia Huggins