A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing within the civil rights and labor movements, Julia "Jules" Balen maps the relationship between different forms of oppression and strategic musical forms of resistance. She also explores the pote...
What makes a home for you? _x000D_ Victor Esses is Jewish-Lebanese, Brazilian, and gay. In 1975, Victor's mother flees Lebanon as a refugee of the Civil War. In 2017, Victor visits Lebanon for the first time. In 2018, amidst the elections that will see Brazil choose a far-right president, he travels from London to Sao Paulo to show his partner the city of his childhood. _x000D_ Where to Belong is the tender, moving story of these journeys - an exploration of how to find your place in a ric...
In a fractured and divided city, two men, 'A' and 'B', meet to recreate the killings of a famous gay serial killer, for their own pleasure...and the right price. "Everything else is tumbling down Falling apart But not you and me You and me are going to hold tight You and me are just right" Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.
Queer Ideas
In the 1980s and early 1990s, popular film presented women characters who were hard, tough and in control. While "Thelma and Louise" blew away rapists, Sigourney Weaver vapourized "Aliens", and the era of the female hero arrived. Despite the overt heterosexuality of both films, Thelma, Louise and Weaver's character, Ripley, all became incredibly popular with lesbians. This study critically embraces psychoanalytic and discourse film theory to explore this phenomenon and to assess its implications...
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. The book makes a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis, via Freud and Lacan, and conducts a critical examination of queer theory's most famous proponents, includin...
Lesbian Choices (Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies)
Feminist philosopher Claudia Card explores with this work the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face regarding their identities and their relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities. In part 1, the author looks at lesbian cultures and traditions, and develops a genealogy of amazons, sapphists, and passionate friends. An ensuing chapter asks whether lesbianism is a "choice", and if so, what this really means and what is at stake in looking at it this way. In part 2...
An examination of the perception of lesbians in American culture, this work focuses on the subversion of both stereotyped representations and some straight texts. It is divided into three principal parts - inventing the lesbian, forms of resistance, and writing in the margins.
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the mu...