Introduction

More particularly, Queer Sites in Global Contexts: Technologies, Spaces, and Otherness prioritizes divergent histories, narratives, performances, and spatial practices of queer life in geographical and cultural contexts that are often othered by dominant queer theoretical studies in the West. In this way, Queer Sites in Global Contexts is not a conference proceedings, nor is it in any way a write-up of the event, but an object of queer intersections in and of itself. Gender and sexualities scholar Jack Halberstam’s work on the ‘Transgender gaze’, and their identification of queer lines of flight, also resonates with several chapters in this collection. As its title articulates, Queer Sites in Global Contexts is a book about sites. Stepping beyond the context of the Anglo-American hegemony, a host of other scholars have provided analyses of queer lives and queer digital media in a range of national contexts.