This book contents: 1) Sexualities, creativities and contemporary publics by Anne Harris and Yvette Taylor; 2) Rewritings/refoldings/refleshings: fictive publics and the material gesture of defamiliarization by Helen Palmer; 3) Monsters, desire and thecreative queer body by Stacy Holman Jones and Anne Harris; 4) Being different in public by Anna Hickey-Moody; 5) The Cheerleader: a feminist mom, her pre-teen daughter, and the spaces for girls in American football by Jessica Smartt Gullion; 6) Complex and creative intimate and sexual citizens: mapping a study that seeks to understand children outside the binary of sexual innocence or sexual contamination by L.R. Etheredge; 7) Neoliberal ethos, state consorship and sexual culture; a Chinese dating/hook-up app by Tingting Liu; 8) A Wandering archive - a nuanced creative enactment of GLBT histories by Karen Charman; 9) 'Capturing' queer lives and the poetics of social change by Karen Lambert; 10) The anarchy of living with negativity by Samuele Grassi. //ir