Introduction -- The everyday life of queer trauma -- Trauma and touch : butch-femme sexualities -- Sexual trauma/queer memory : incest, lesbianism, and therapeutic culture -- Transnational trauma and queer diasporic publics -- AIDS activism and public feelings : documenting Act Up's lesbians -- Legacies of activism, legacies of trauma : mourning and militancy revisited -- In the archive of lesbian feelings -- Epilogue