The Visibility Trap Kate Redburn† Vice Patrol Anna Lvovsky. University of Chicago Press, 2021. 346 pages. INTRODUCTION In August 2021, the Indiana Court of Appeals prohibited a transgender teenage boy (H.S.) from changing the gender marker on his birth certificate. Because he was fifteen at the time, his parents had filed the petition on his , to create queer representation in cinema, not only on the screen but also in terms of who gets to write and tell these stories, especially when it comes to queer people of color, women, and gender non-conforming subjects. However, the studios are much more inclusive than they were even ten years ago., conservation of queer culture; queer human rights education (HRE); resistance to the Russian government’s discriminatory narrative; and affirmation for the Russian queer communities. By analyzing online responses to digital queer educational projects, we seek to uncover how queer individuals in Russia engage with these, Furthermore, especially considering the history of the term queer, it is important to note that it had long been used as a derogatory term and was reclaimed both aca-demically and socially in the 1990s. According to queer theorist Annamarie Jagose, the term queer can be seen as part of a broader cultural and political shift toward a fluid, , .