Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a...

Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Perez traces...

New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. This book offers a unique and layered account of the...

How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are From the time we're born, a litany of do's and don'ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We're required to fit into boxes based on our...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier...

Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned LGBT people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as degenerates. It persisted in...

A guide to the gender health gap revolution'Crucial reading for us all 'Stylist 'Remarkable, impressive and important' Maisie Hill, author of Period Power. 'Validates for women that their experiences are not all in their heads' Dr Sarah E. Hill, author of How the Pill...

Gender is hard. Especially for teens who might not identify with stereotypical ideas of gender and sexual identity. Trans : Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Karen Rayne, PhD, and Katherine Gonzales, MBA, is an all-inclusive, uncensored guide for teens who are transgender,...

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies. Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a...

The final book in the Queer Film Classics series is R.L. Cagle's take on Scorpio Rising (1963), Kenneth Anger's avant-garde short film that about gay Nazi bikers preparing for a race. The film marked Anger's spectacular return to the US underground cinema scene after an absence...

Essays on Queer CommitmentThe contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They consider commitment...

A wide-ranging study on the reasons why queer individuals migrate to Europe and the socio-political frameworks they navigate.  Europe is a popular destination for LGBTQ people seeking to escape discrimination and persecution. Yet, while European institutions have done much to promote the legal equality...

An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read...

Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have...

A Queer-Feminist Theory Democracy in the Political Present 'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to...

Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts...

Creating Queer Religious Community in North America Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities. The turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpretations and practices transformed the public's perception of who could follow the teachings of Islam. Muslims...

'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey. 'Thoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBA. #'Funny and beautifully revealing.' BELLA MACKIE. 'Wise, sharp and naughty.' THE OBSERVER. 'Herein lie the men of Raven Smith. Each of them has left a mark, a memory, a stain, whether they meant to or...

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of colour scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and...

Queer Theory and the Death Drive In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism."...

Ideas for a Better Future. The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility. Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced...

In a dizzying tumble of words about gay life that has left little uncovered. Andrew Ramer has something new to say. He does not rationalize, analyze, cheerlead or scold, but presents a simple vision so steeped in age-old wisdom that it appears more contemporary...

Why is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens. Rather than focusing on sex acts, which make us feel...

Ideas for a Better Future. The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility. Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced...

Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to "correct" atypical sex anatomies caused them...

themed Texts in Schools This book focuses on queering texts with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) themes in collaboration with students - young to young adult - and their teachers - both pre- and in- service. It strives to generate knowledge and deeper...

Find out what LGBT+ youth, ages 12-18, in the USA really think about what life is like when you're part of the LGBT+ community. A range of topics are discussed, ranging from how society treats the community to personal experiences of self-discovery.