"[Going Stealth] accomplishes the best of what we imagine theory to be good for—making sense of our everyday experiences, grounding personal interactions with the state in histories of structural oppression, and illuminating the broader context of our banal negotiations between dignity, resilience, convenience, resistance, politics-inpractice, and privilege. . . . Going Stealth is a helpful contribution to multiple literatures, and it demonstrates the ways in which robust interdisciplinarity also requires solidarity in scholarship." — Lyndsey P. Beutin, Society & Space
"For academics and those with the wherewithal to struggle through it there's a great deal of intellectual value to be found in a book such as this." — Hans Rollmann, PopMatters
“Going Stealth is … topical and urgent, delving into contemporary hot-button issues of gendered bathrooms and TSA screening practices.”
— Elise Morrison, TDR: The Drama Review
“This innovative book is an important contribution to both trans studies and surveillance studies—particularly to analyses of the War on Terror, border enforcement, and identity documentation. Toby Beauchamp convincingly weaves together arguments about surveillance, migration, and trans embodiment. Making several critical interventions in trans studies and trans advocacy, this book addresses the ways that whiteness and immigration status are often assumed characteristics of trans subjecthood.” — Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
“Going Stealth is a brilliant intervention in the field of transgender studies and beyond, by way of its critique of the violent capacities of the surveillance state. From the identification document as an administrative practice to the airport and the public bathroom as sites where the anxieties of the state around certain bodies and bodily technologies play out, Toby Beauchamp traces a complex account of militarism, monitoring, and refusals. This book is essential reading for those who seek to understand and critique how surveillance arranges our lives.” — Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness