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A year without a name
\"For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations -- lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman -- until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable. Moving between Grace and Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about who we are and how we are constituted. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely theirs, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved meditation on queerness, family, and desire.\" -- Back cover.
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Digital Me
The internet is where trans people have come to become. Creating an identity in digital space can be important for how trans people learn about themselves, their communities, and the possibilities available to them. While the internet and digital space is not the only way of coming to understand oneself in a community, it is a space of liberatory possibility and creativity. There is room to invent what may not yet exist for gender on the edges of what many consider to be \"real.\" For many, digital life can be the site of play, joy, and connection –even while the internet is not a harm-free space nor universally available. This book seeks to understand the complexities at play in the digital realm and the implications that have for gender, digital life, and higher education.
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Matchmaking in the Archive
Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious.
Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians, then paired each of them with a deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the archive.
Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this monumental creative project and adds essays by Jonathan Katz, Michelle Tea, and Chris Vargas, who describe their own unique encounters with the ghosts of LGBTQ history. Together, they make the archive come alive in remarkably intimate ways.
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Everyday Violence
Everyday Violence is based on ten years of scholarly rage against catcalling and aggression directed at women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people of New York City. Simone Kolysh recasts public harassment as everyday violence and demands an immediate end to this pervasive social problem. Analyzing interviews with initiators and recipients of everyday violence through an intersectional lens, Kolysh argues that gender and sexuality, shaped by race, class, and space, are violent processes that are reproduced through these interactions in the public sphere. They examine short and long-term impacts and make inroads in urban sociology, queer and trans geographies, and feminist thought. Kolysh also draws a connection between public harassment, gentrification, and police brutality resisting criminalizing narratives in favor of restorative justice. Through this work, they hope for a future where women and LGBTQ people can live on their own terms, free from violence.
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Unsafe Words
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been
pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have
been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer
people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer
communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This
provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and
sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power,
consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be
consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist
the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege
underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that
queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical
sex-from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man
having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they
explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to
sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is
frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer
side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge
dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools
and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for
everyone.
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Blessings Beyond the Binary
Transparent made history as the first television show to feature a transgender character in the main role, as the first streaming series to win the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and as, in the words of journalist Debra Nussbaum Cohen, \"the Jewiest show ever.\" No television show in history has depicted the lives of American Jews with as.
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Photo-Attractions
In Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten's Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography.
Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten's Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha's reading, Van Vechten's New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a \"photo-erotic\" triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera.
A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.
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AntoloGaia
In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider's look at the beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to Naples's unique femminielli subculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.
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Defiant Bodies
In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights
activists strategically located within and outside of the region
have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting
people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that
the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in
violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender
boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize
international financial and political resources to influence these
interventions and the region's engagement on issues of homophobia,
transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus,
however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across
different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the
nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making
across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in
the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and
homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four
Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and
Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of
human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers
critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist,
and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by
mobilizing \"on the ground\" and creating transgressive communities
within the region.
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An Ordinary Landscape of Violence
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana tells a new history of queer women in postcolonial Guyana.While the country has experienced a rise in queer activism, especially toward human rights efforts, members of the Guyanese queer community have also been victims of extreme violence.
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