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...
Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicago's LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work; blues legend Ma Raine...
Norm-struggles
Norm-Struggles explores and challenges normativity in general and heteronormativity in particular. A common trait in all chapters is the focus on contradictions, changes, disruptions and uncertainties that follow with different norms and structuring forces. The authors discuss and explore how norms are produced, and reproduced but also disrupted, subverted and changed. The chapters are based on observations from different settings such as preschools, schools, universities, factories, social welf...
Lesbian Motherhood in Europe (Sexual politics)
This text details the conditions for lesbian mothers in over 30 countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Each country profile includes a statistical overview and specific information on: legislation affecting lesbian mothers together with relevant court case examples; insemination, adoption and fostering; indicators for future change; and contacts for support groups and relevant organizations. The volume also collects stories of lesbian families throughout Europe.
'It’s Nice to Be Heard'
Trans Artists have been creating work for longer than we can even imagine, and now we're finally starting to recognise the impact and import of their work. This collection brings together a range of voices, both established and emerging, to showcase just a drop in the ocean of incredible Trans Talent out there. From rom coms and fantasy to feisty political monologues, this collection of plays has it all. Join us on a journey through the imaginations of some of the best playwrights alive today,...
Same Sex Partnerships
Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics)
by Jean Bruce and Gerda Cammaer
A British wife and mother's life is turned upside down when she meets and falls in love with her much younger Afrikaans au pair in this candid memoir. This tantalizing, unconventional, true love story details how two women found each other at an inoppor
"Are girls necessary?" asks Julie Abraham in this provocative study of 20th-century lesbian writing. Examining the development of lesbian writing in English across the 20th Century, Abraham identifies a shift from this "romance" model to a more complicated "history" model. The great modernists, Woolf and Stein, as well as the popular writers of succeeding generations, like Mary Renault, looked to historical narratives, creating an important change in the way the "lesbian story" is built....