Special containing the following articles: - No Place like Home: Re-writing 'Home' and Re-locating Lesbianism in Emma Donoghue's Stir-Fry and Hood / by Emma Young - Living in the Garden of Perhaps: Ordinary Life as an Obstacle to Political Change in Israel / by Katherine Natanel - Circular Consciousness in the Lived Experience of Intersectionality: Queer/LGBT Nigerian Diasporic Women in the USA / by Meremu Chikwendu - Sensational Kin: Family, Normativity and Women's Weekly Magazines / by Melanie Anne Stewart - The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir on Modern French Visual Art / by Rebecca Trevalyan - Doctors and Sheikhs: 'Truths' in Virginity Discourse in Jordanian Media / Ebtihal Mahadeen - Framing Wrongs and Performing Rights in Northern Ireland: Towards a Butlerian Approach to Life in Abortion Strategising / Kathryn McNeilly - Rethinking Representations of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / by James West