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During the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) protest, Hong Kong protesters invented, adapted, and deployed a variety of decentralized grassroots tactics of resistance. While understudied, the proliferation of protest zines during the Anti-ELAB movement contributed to an affective community among movement supporters and protesters, allowing them to engage in self- and communal care as they resisted state violence. We argue that protest zines foregrounded a grassroots community of care that encourages political change in the following ways: expand the emotional habitus among protesters and movement supporters to accommodate debilitating bad feelings; promote self-care and embodied emotional reflection as a form of resistance against state violence; contribute to voluntary kinship among protesters beyond the state-sanctioned nuclear family model; and articulate nuclear familial relations as a site of political resistance. By examining how protest zines articulate voluntary kinship among movement supporters, we illustrate how the zines challenge dominant paternalistic institutions to reimagine a more open political future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the controversy surrounding gender-neutral language in reproductive politics, highlighting its significance beyond semantics. It delves into topics such as the intersection of gender and reproductive justice, the historical construction of sex/gender intertwined with colonialism and racism, and the necessity of engaging with Black trans feminism and decolonial feminist theories to redefine reproductive freedom and challenge oppressive power structures.

This article explores how reproductive justice (RJ) doulas support trans and nonbinary birthing people, while advancing more inclusive practices within the birth world. We begin by tracing historical changes in mainstream birth and pregnancy care to highlight how biological naturalism and woman-centered discourse became ingrained. Then, we analyze primary data, such as participant observations at doula trainings, interviews with RJ doulas, and training materials for birthworkers, to illuminate how RJ doulas mobilize RJ principles to provide gender-affirming advocacy and inclusive care to pregnant and birthing people of all genders. Key rhetorical strategies include (1) advocacy, (2) radical inclusion, and (3) self-reflexivity. Thus, our study extends existing feminist rhetorical scholarship on gender essentialism in popular pregnancy and childbirth discourse, expands scholarship on obstetric violence and marginalization of nonnormative birthing people, and explores rhetorical possibilities for redress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I perform what Wendy Hesford calls "intercontextual reading" to trace how the coalitional potential between the Hong Kong anti-authoritarian movement and the U.S. Black Lives Matter protests is eclipsed by appropriation, disinformation, and misalignment, fueled specifically by Beijing and apologists for authoritarian non-Western regimes, that pitch grassroots movements, activists, and potential allies against each other. I then examine the rhetorical strategies deployed by Hong Kong public intellectuals to harness the "coalitional moments" between the two movements as they both struggle against state violence and police brutality. By doing so, I argue that as social movement discourse travels transnationally on digital spaces, we need to draw on methodologies in transnational rhetorical studies in order to fully contextualize the complex geopolitical, discursive, and political networks in which these rhetorical actions take place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces how citizenship in Hong Kong is constructed via familial tropes that privilege sameness and a politics of identification; this rhetorical representation, I argue, not only perpetuates a jus sanguinis model of citizenship that privileges ethnic blood ties, but also allows the state and the dominant citizenry to justify neoliberal and racist practices that exclude brown bodies. By analyzing the citizenship claims made by the marginalized South Asian community in Hong Kong and the subsequent responses they receive from the mainstream public, I demonstrate that racialized populations face a rhetorical double bind: on the one hand, they must deploy the familial metaphors commonly used by the existing citizenry to demonstrate their sense of belonging, but, on the other hand, such tropes reinscribe them in a power hierarchy that undermines their subjectivity. This case study illuminates that while it is commonly seen as a viable rhetorical tactic for marginalized rhetors to resist and participate, the repurposing and redeployment of dominant tropes have significant limitations as they are constricted by power structures that are staunchly in place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]