An anthology exploring the act of passing-as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyond Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of "passing." In a pass/fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation that might create.

"Nobody Passes" is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. "Nobody Passes" explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of "passing." In a pass-fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation that might create. Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, has a history of editing anthologies based on brazen nonconformity and gender defiance. Mattilda sets out to ask the question, "What lies are people forced to tell in order to gain acceptance as 'real'." The answers are as varied as the life experiences of the writers who tackle this urgent and essential topic.

Combining transgender studies with the ’neomodernist’ architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit ’spatial models’ of popular narratives of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure, stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness, ornamentation, and movement. With case studies spanning the US and UK, Transgender Architectonics examines the ways in which modernist architecture can contribute to our understanding of how it is that humans are able to transform, shedding light on the manner in which architecture, space, and the spatial metaphors of gender can play significant - if often unrealized - potential roles in body and gender transformation. By remedying both the absence of actual architecture in queer theory's discussions of space and also architectural theory's marginal treatment of transgender, this volume constitutes a serious intervention in the field of ’queer space’. It draws on modernist literature in order to reckon with and rebuild the architectural ideas that already implicitly structure common understandings of the queer and transgender self. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in queer theory, the body and transformation, gender and sexuality, modernist writing and architectural theory.

This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, beyond a romanticised 'Silk Road' sense of fraternity. In fact, relations between the people of this region are tense, and border violence is escalating - even as the identity and nationality of the people on the ground shifts to meet their new geopolitical realities. As Steven Parham shows, many of the world's Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable and, in the end, impermanent. Meanwhile, the looming presence of Modern China and Russia, who are funneling money and military resources into the region - partly to fight what they see as a growing Islamic activism - are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical, intelligent book functions as part travelogue, part sociological exploration, and is based on a unique body of research - five months trekking through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues to grow and become more assertive, as it has been recently in Africa and in the South China Seas - as well as in Xinjiang - China's borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet past and the Chinese future.

Volume contains: (Arbitration; Gerome Follini et al & NYC Housing Authority ) (Arbitration; Gerome Follini et al & NYC Housing Authority ) (Proving Last Will & Testament of Jacob P. Galewitz) (Proving Last Will & Testament of Jacob P. Galewitz) (Proving Last Will & Testament of Jacob P. Galewitz) (Sylvia Rosenberg Getz against Lewis A. Wilson et al) (Sylvia Rosenberg Getz against Lewis A. Wilson et al) (Sylvia Rosenberg Getz against Lewis A. Wilson et al) (Sylvia Rosenberg Getz against Lewis A. Wilson et al) (Lena Gonzalez against John F. O'Connell et al ) (Lena Gonzalez against John F. O'Connell et al ) (Lena Gonzalez against John F. O'Connell et al ) (Lena Gonzalez against John F. O'Connell et al ) (Application for the Appointment of an Ancillary Successor Trustee for Brent Good) (Application for the Appointment of an Ancillary Successor Trustee for Brent Good) (Goodwins, Inc & Goodwins Assoc Stores, Inc against Frank Hagedorn ) (Goodwins, Inc & Goodwins Assoc Stores, Inc against Frank Hagedorn ) (Goodwins, Inc & Goodwins Assoc Stores, Inc against Frank Hagedorn ) (Goodwins, Inc & Goodwins Assoc Stores, Inc against Frank Hagedorn ) (Goodwins, Inc & Goodwins Assoc Stores, Inc against Frank Hagedorn )