Lawful Repair

“Through a range of intimate, literary, and public exchanges, Sheikh takes the dark and broken things law produces and nudges us towards the delight that can survive our despair. Attending to self and other through careful reinterpretation and reveal, Lawful Repair does the important work of queer worldmaking, even if (especially when) it calls it ‘minor mending.’” - Swethaa Ballakrishnen, author of Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India's Professional Elite

“Danish Sheikh’s beautiful and imaginative book shows how reparatory readings of institutional structures can support queer flourishing. Oriented to emancipatory possibilities within the seams of law, Sheikh draws on life, theater, and community to discover what else law can do. A stunning account of hopeful dramaturgical legal methods.” - Davina Cooper, author of Conceptual Activism: Radical Sense-Making and the Struggle for Gender