Title:
Queer then and now : the David R. Kessler lectures, 2002-2020
Edition:
First Feminist Press edition.
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
New York City: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2023.
Physical Description:
vii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781558612457
Abstract:
"Includes seventeen lectures, reflections, and two scholarly roundtables by prominent queer and trans scholars, activists, and artists-including Adrienne Rich, Amber Hollibaugh, Cathy J. Cohen, Cheryl Clarke, Dean Spade, Douglas Crimp, Gayle Rubin, Isaac Julien, Jasbir K. Puar, Jonathan Ned Katz, Martin Duberman, Richard Fung, Roderick A. Ferguson, Sara Ahmed, Sarah Schulman, Susan Stryker, and Urvashi Vaid-on the past, present, and future of queer studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: queer ideas, messy archives, and the then and now of queer studies / Debanuj Das Gupta, Joseph L. V. Donica, and Margot Weiss -- Making sex history: obsessions of a quarter century / Jonathan Ned Katz -- Geologies of queer studies: it's déjà vu all over again -- Cinematic rearticulations / Isaac Julien -- "Candidates for my love": three gay and lesbian poets -- Action around the edges / Douglas Crimp -- Ghost dances: a trans-movement manifesto -- Ties that bind: familial homophobia and its consequences / Sarah Schulman -- What can brown do for you? Race, sexuality, and the future of LGBT politics / Urvashi Vaid -- Queer then and now roundtable: histories of queer and trans activism / Amber Hollibaugh, Dean Space, and Urvashi Vaid with Shanté Paradigm Smalls -- Acceptance at what price? The gay movement reconsidered / Martin Duberman -- Queer Black trouble: in life, literature, and the age of Obama / Cheryl Clarke -- #DoBlackLivesMatter? From Michael Brown to CeCe McDonald: on black death and LGBTQ politics / Cathy J. Cohen -- Re-orientations: shifts and continuities in Asian Canadian queer and trans identities and activism / Richard Fung -- When we win we lose: mainstreaming and the redistribution of respectability / Dean Spade -- Queer use / Sara Ahmed -- Hope and the power of desire: our vision for a changing world / Amber Hollibaugh -- A no-state "solution": inter/nationalism and the question of queer theory / Jasbir K. Puar -- Queer and trans liberation and the critique of fascism, or when S.T.A.R. met Césaire and the Frankfurt school / Roderick A. Ferguson -- Queer then and now roundtable: histories of queer and trans scholarship / Roderick A. Ferguson, Jasbir K. Puar, and Susan Stryker with Shaka McGlotten.
Language:
English
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