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These were both, critically, moral and not necessarily political narratives that resided in a seemingly overwhelming feeling that the nation was on a perverse path toward its annihilation. According to these narratives of perversion, Armenia was missing proper Father figures both as national leadership as well as within households, leading the nation on deviant and improper paths toward becoming something other than Armenia. She locates what the politics of \"No! as forms of aesthetic and stylistic refusal of these daddy politics, drawing on examples from grass roots initiatives aimed at democratic and not necessarily moral futures, and argues that rather than mourning these perverse presents lingering on the nation's survival, we might locate in them queer futures toward liberation.\r\n \r\nTamar R. Shirinian is a cultural anthropologist whose work explores themes of gender, sexuality, and political economy and especially their interconnectedness in the postsocialist world, focused particularly on the Republic of Armenia. Tamar's first book, *Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia*, which explores homosexual panic and its ties to post-Soviet crises in social reproduction, was published by Duke University Press in 2024 nd won the 2025 Ruth Benedict Award for Outstanding Monograph from the Association for Queer Anthropology. She is currently working on a second book manuscript, tentatively entitled *Yakhq and Other Feminisms from the Post-Second World*, which investigates post-Soviet ideologies and practices of feminism as well as their tensions with one another. 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