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In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others, Jin Haritaworn takes up pressing issues of sexual and gender politics in the neo-colonial world order and considers how the sexual understanding of “terror” has become increasingly prevalent worldwide in recent years. As images of same-sex intimacy have become an ordinary part of the Western mainstream and discourse, Haritaworn shows that politicians and pundits have used that acceptance as a weapon to attack “Muslim homophobia” to promote their Islamophobic agendas. Haritaworn argues that this is simply the newest wrinkle in a long history of the deliberate misuse of colonized and racialized intimacies, and he raises provocative questions about how we should think about identity and how we should enact it in political practice. What, he asks, would it mean to really decolonize gender and sexuality?