This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect, power and agency in queer, feminist and antiracist media cultures. Through a range of in-depth case studies, the book explores the potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability as a new political language.

List of figures1 Vulnerability as a political language - Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid RybergPart I: Vulnerability as a battleground2 Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates - Katariina Kyrölä3 Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship - Jack Halberstam4 Feminist hurt/feminism hurts - Sara AhmedPart II: Vulnerability and visibility5 Little Pink: white fragility and black social death - Ylva Habel6 Visibility and vulnerability: negotiating transgender representation and encounters with translatina worlds in The Salt Mines and Wildness - Laura Horak7 White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in Top of the Lake: China Girl - Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Ingrid Ryberg8 Spectacularly wounded: white male vulnerability as heterosexual fantasy - Susanna PaasonenPart III: Vulnerability and cultural policy9 The invulnerable body of colour: the failure and success of a Swedish Film Diversity initiative - Mara Lee Gerden10 Naming, shaming, framing? The ambivalence of queer visibility in audio-visual archives - Dagmar Brunow11 Abortion prevention: lesbian citizenship and filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s - Ingrid Ryberg12 The caring nation: Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as a reparative fantasy - Anu KoivunenIndex