Visionary Tactical Lives: Queer and
Trans Migrants Making Futures
Edited by Eithne Luibhéid
ISBN 978-1-962365-19-2
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Masked, armed officials roaming U.S. streets to arrest and disappear people; loved ones being disappeared; asylum and other paths to admission shutting down; legal immigration statuses canceled without warning; the Supreme Court further authorizing racial profiling, cis-heteronormativity, and authoritarian rule; ballooning surveillance, detention, and deportation systems staffed by “patriots” and “defenders” while funds get cut from food, housing, healthcare, and education; hate and lies flowing from government media and officials; protestors facing escalating violence and criminalization; U.S. invasion and destabilization around the globe displacing more people into migration.
In Visionary Tactical Lives, academics, activists, cultural workers, and community organizers explore how queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming migrants in the United States and globally are impacted by and responding to immigration enforcement tactics and other harmful policies under the second Trump administration. Contributors also share visions and tactics for creating alternative futures. The collection includes short, non-fiction analyses, essays, reflections, reports, and interviews.
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Eithne Luibhéid is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, whose research focuses on the connections among queer lives, racialization processes, state immigration controls, and citizenship. Luibhéid is the author of Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State (Duke University Press, 2025), Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). She is the editor of Lives that Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians (Routledge 2021) and “Queer Migrations” (a special issue of GLQ, 2008). Luibhéid co-edited Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of ‘Illegalization,’ Detention, and Deportation (University of Illinois Press, 2020); A Global History of Sexuality (Wiley Blackwell, 2014); and Queer Migrations: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Border Crossings (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and serves on the board of BorderLinks in Tucson, Arizona.