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In this special issue of Interventions, we consider the transnational articulations of the expansive site of decolonial studies. The disparate as well as interconnecting lines of reflection, traversing geopolitical and disciplinary borders, instructively allude to the trajectories of decolonial theorization. It is within these interstitial transnational sites that the Decolonizing Sexualities Network (DSN) emerged in the last decade by suturing queer of color critique to decolonial studies. Academic activism, political mobilization, transformational politics and praxes, critiques of global loci of power including heteropatriarchy, Islamophobia and racism among others defined the work of the collective, underpinning the urgency to think beyond single-issue politics of queerness. "Decolonial Trajectories" instantiates and extends such characteristic propelling of the interventions that reach beyond queerness without erasing its critical significance of radical critique of uneven relations of power.

Feminist and gay representations are closely interlocked with current Islamophobic discourses. From the de‐veiling/outing of Afghani women or migrant Muslim women in Europe and the hypervisibility of sexual transgression in Abu Ghraib to the “sexiness” of warfare itself, gendered/sexualized images of Orientalism are spectacularly globalized and proliferated. Concurrently, they are mobilized differently in diverse local and national settings, as our research in three national locations has taught us. This entry addresses worrying resonances between local formations of Islamophobia in Israel, the United Kingdom and Germany. The aim is to address different manifestations of queer Islamophobia that for queers of color signals a backlash against multiculturalism and the permissibility (coming out of the closet) of racist discourses that reinforce Western superiority.

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