Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa

lence. Their voices, and their analysis, are front and center. In Chapter Three, Kolysh focuses on their non-heterosexual participants (66 percent of their sample) and examines how everyday violence effects individuals already marginalized for their sexuality. In Chapter Four, Kolysh narrows the focus to transgender people specifically and introduces the reader to the concept of toxciscity—a terms used to describe ‘‘both a public sphere experience made toxic by everyday violence . . . and the harmful, cumulative toll that it takes on transgender people over the life course’’ (p. 124). In Chapter Five, Kolysh dives more deeply into an analysis of how race and class shape everyday violence, with links to neighborhoods and state violence such as criminalization and gentrification. Throughout these chapters we view Kolysh’s developing model of everyday violence until the final model appears in Chapter Five. The concluding chapter focuses on resistance and solutions, arguing against carceral solutions and instead embracing transformative justice and community accountability—through education, holding initiators accountable, more data collection, and more. This chapter, like the others, incudes wisdom from study participants and activists—often one and the same. Although the study participants are all living in New York City, many readers will relate to the material, in large part because street harassment is so ubiquitous. The experiences of the study participants are relayed throughout the book and will be familiar to women and LGBTQ people, even as others may find the information alarming and new. This reader wanted more from the concluding chapter, but that may be a marker of how vexing the problem of public harassment is rather than a weakness of the book itself. Students and a general audience alike will find this an interesting read. Complex concepts from sociology, gender studies, and queer studies are defined and explained in the text and in a glossary, which is useful for undergraduate and graduate students alike. Perhaps more importantly, it is an accessible read for survivors of street harassment and LGBTQ-directed aggression as well as activists who are working to end street harassment and violence against LGBTQ people. Finally, I recommend this book for anyone who wants to better understand the complexities of public harassment and its links to structural, cultural, and interactional oppression. It’s well past time to increase attention toward this serious social problem.