The Small Book of Hip ChecksIn The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip checkincluding an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized genderto consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to processes of writing and revising, Rand pursues interruption, rethinking, and redirection to challenge standard methods of argumentation and traditional markers of heft and fluff. She