Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Volume 12, Number 1 (2025) pp. i-iii  Editor  s Note Trish Salah This special issue was inspired, in part, by something Jules Gill-Peterson said during a roundtable in a previous (2022) special issue of JCRI, on then recent attacks on Critical Race Theory. Speaking to the confluence of escalating anti-trans legislative bills, physical attacks on trans and queer people, anti-Black police violence and the assault on CRT, Gill-Peterson remarked,   When we are talking about gender and sexual politics I  m not convinced we need to invent any trans or gender-based rubrics to understand the space or to mobilize against it. The existing critical rubrics of race and empire and racial governance would already encompass and analyze perfectly well what is going on and also provide us with a different political grammar of political solidarity and history.   Our call for papers for this special issue highlighted the intensification and broadening of assaults on peoples   bodily dignity and autonomy, from the overturning of Roe V. Wade to   parental rights   discourses, legislative and media attacks on gender-affirming care and trans women  s participation in public life, the June 2023 attack on a gender studies class in Waterloo, Ontario, and anti-trans marches that occurred across the country that year. Taking our cue from Gill-Peterson, we invited contributors to think these and related events analytically within the long and ongoing duration of violence, surveillance, colonization and criminalization of Black, Indigenous, migrant and racialized peoples   lives to expose the evolving structures and practices of empire, racial capitalism and settler colonialism. Even as our team began envisioning this issue, many of us were preparing to teach in Gender and Black Studies classrooms, considering how to navigate anti-feminist, antitrans, anti-Black threats in the classroom without giving pretext to intensified policing and security on campus, while also contesting the anti-intellectual and neoliberal doubling down on the social sciences and humanities as liabilities to the university governed as a business. Those questions would only become more pressing after the events of October 7, the Al-Aqsa Flood, the deaths and capture of Israeli hostages, and the manufactured media panic around this event and its reception   on the left   as a signpost of a new global Antisemitism. The strategy of mischaracterizing criticism of, and resistance to, Israel  s colonial occupation as Antisemitic is not new of course, but few were prepared for the rapidly escalating violence with which campus-based solidarity encampments were policed, for the intensified state repression of criticism of Israel, the programmatic censorship, doxxing and firing of pro-Palestinian activists, students, politicians, journalists, artists, academics and others who spoke out against  ii Israel  s war crimes. All this while Israel  s devastating acceleration of the long genocide of the Nakba killed over 59,000 people in Gaza, injured over 143,000, displaced over 1.9 million people, destroyed every material support for life within Gaza and starved the people of Gaza for months upon months upon months. To say nothing of the 1000 Palestinians murdered in the West Bank, amidst escalating illegal settlement, land theft and legislative attacks on its existence. One might fairly ask how CRT speaks to present circumstances of state level neoliberal apologetic disregard, and boastfully fascist contempt, for international human rights obligations and criminal law in the context of 22 months of live streamed Zionist genocidal attempts to eliminate the Palestinian people and nation. To say nothing of the governmental attacks on the autonomy of universities, journalists, and civil rights in the West. To that point we might recall that CRT was never about law  s capacity to render justice for racialized and colonized and feminized people. Rather it sought to develop capacities to expose and contest the systematic, structural and narrative occlusion of anti-Black, racial, and gendered violence and discrimination as that which can come before, or be addressed by, law. And JCRI  s project has been since its inception to further consider how, within the Canadian settler colony and internationally, Critical Race Theory itself might be further developed and transformed by reckoning with histories of racial violence and settler colonialism, and by the praxes of Indigenous, Black and anti-racist feminist resistance. Our offerings in this issue attempt the crucial work of thinking through not only the ways in which homophobic and transphobic attacks on queer, trans, and reproductive rights are racialized, how the imperatives of racism, settler-colonialism, fascism, and empire shape these attacks, but to foster knowledges and resistance strategies grounded in histories of transnational and intersectional transfeminist solidarities, mutual aid and creative flourishing, and anti-imperialist resistance. In our view these histories and solidarities are required now more than ever. Our cover art for this issue is Anna Jane McIntyre  s   Portrait of Another Mother,   from her piece, Grocery Shopping is Glamourous, first staged as part of Syrus Marcus Ware  s 2014 group show,   That  s So Gay: On the Edge.   Engaging the abolitionist work and thought of Miss Major and CeCe MacDonald, and drawing upon a long history of Black (and) trans feminist writers/thinkers/activists , Valerie Fryer-Davis     Black Trans Rage and Love: Notes Towards a Method of Revolutionary Life,   brings passionate and nuanced theorizing of rage and love as Black Trans communal poetics, pedagogies and methods for revolutionary living within and against the anti-Black and anti-trans world. Valerie Bhupaul and Amanda De Lisio employ CRT and reproductive justice frameworks to animate and lift up the birth stories and critical insights of Black women resisting obstetric racism and the pathologization of Black motherhood in     How might this have gone differently if I was not Black?  : Black Mothers Navigating Perinatal Care in the Greater Toronto Area.   Finally, in   Disassembling the Liberal Feminist Legacy of Reproductive Rights in Canada  , Maria O  Leary and Elizabeth Brule  use institutional ethnography to think through historical and ongoing articulations of racialized settler colonial, hetero and cis-normative logics in liberal and state feminist struggles for reproductive rights, which are themselves productive of reproductive oppression, and  iii to argue instead for a queer, decolonial reproductive justice framework that centers bodily autonomy, community care, and relational accountability. In a related vein, in our Intervention piece for this issue,   Autoethnography Towards Community Accountability: Queerlandia, Belonging, and Hope,   Sophie Johanna Been enters into conversation with Kai Cheng Thom  s I Hope We Choose Love and Mx. Sly  s Transland: Consent, Kink &amp; Pleasure, to think about the ways in which harmful behaviour, intersectional vulnerabilities, and questions of community accountability are often obscured or unacknowledged in queer and trans communities. Reading Sly and Thom  s narratives, as well as her own, through the lens of autoethnography, Been offers it as a possible genre for enacting community care and intervention. The issue is rounded out with compelling reviews of Jules Gill-Peterson  s A Short History of Transmisogyny, by Christopher Bennett and OmiSoore H. Dryden  s Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation by Zainab Khalid. With Jane Kirby, JCRI  s managing editor, away on leave, we are grateful to have had the excellent Kate Cairns as our interim managing editor from December 2024 through June 2025. Kate did a wonderful job of assembling this issue before departing the journal for another opportunity. Kate was supported in this work by former editorial intern, Zainab Khalid, who we are thrilled to have stepping into the interim managing editor  s role as we work towards our fall   open   issue. Zainab Khalid and I can be reached at managingeditor.jcri@queensu.ca. Juliane Okot Bitek edits JCRI  s Interventions section and Kesha Fevrier edits the JCRI blog, which you can read at: https://jcri.ca/index.php/CRI/announcement. Kesha is also our book review editor, and we are soliciting book reviewers for upcoming issues. To propose an Intervention, receive a list of books we are interested in having reviewed, or to make a book review proposal, write us at managingeditor.jcri@queensu.ca.