acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge the Gender Institute and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University for supporting the early stages of this project. We also wish to thank Robyn Wiegman for her curation of the section of “Queer Objects” devoted to Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts. Thanks are due to Gerard Greenway for his enthusiasm and support in publishing this special issue, and to James Hypher and Fergus Armstrong for copyediting.