1. Introduction: On the Politics of Ugliness (Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo). -2. Ugliness (Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer). -3. Listening to the Ugliness of Hetero-Erotic Miscommunication in Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (Yetta Howard)
4. “Put On All Your Make-Up and Cry It Off In Public”: The Function of Ugliness in Femme Grieving Practices (Andi Schwartz)
5. I Want to Kill Myself (Vivek Shraya, Photography by Zachary Ayotte)
6. The Lesson of the Cockroach: Towards an Ethics of Ugliness (Esther Hutfless and Elisabeth Schäfer)
7. (Un)Mapping the City Beautiful: Orlando Florida’s ‘Ugly’ Settler Colonial Legacy (Stephanie Wheeler)
8. New Body Project(s): “Excess” Skin the in the Context of Massive Weight Loss (Yasmina Katsulis)
9. The Indiscreet Charms of Spatial Ugliness: An Enquiry into a (Post)Colonial City (Sayandeb Chowdhury)
10. Stigma Stains: The Somaesthetics of Institutional Abjection (Natasha Lushetich)
11. Agatha’s Breasts on a Plate: “Ugliness” as Resistance and Queerness (Bernadette Wegenstein)
12. Imagining Ugliness: Failed Femininities, Shame, and Disgust Written onto the “Other” Body (Breanne Fahs)
13. Ugliness as Colonial Violence: Mediations of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (Katherine Morton)
14. Writing Ugly (Melody Ellis)
15. Butler’s Monsters: The Grotesque and the Black Communal Body in Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Jalondra Davis)
16. On the Limitations of the Rhetoric of Beauty: Embracing Ugliness in Contemporary Fat Visual Representations (Stefanie Snider)
17. The Ugly, the Uninvited, the Unseen in the Work of Sia & Emma Sulkowicz (Karina Eileraas Karakuş)
18. Teaching While Ugly: A Story of Racial Pulchritude, Privilege, and Pedagogy (Michael Johnson, Jr.)
19. The Ugly Gaze (Shannon Bell).