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Book SynopsisThis powerful book documents the unspoken stories of a diversity of gender embodiments across the post-Yugoslav states, uncovering how they have navigated the murky waters of war, racism, capitalism and transphobia.
Table of ContentsForeword: 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
