164 pages, 5 x 8
13 color and 4 B-W images
Paperback
Release Date:15 Apr 2025
ISBN:9781978837546
Hardcover
Release Date:15 Apr 2025
ISBN:9781978837553
Crossings is a book about queer cruising. Cruising understood not only as what we do when we go out looking for sex, but cruising as a creative methodology of the erotic, one that decenters space, time, identities and the materiality of bodies, opening them all to new constellations of being, to pleasures unknown. Drawing from, but not restricted by, histories of gay male cruising, the book stages a creative autotheoretical dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising lives. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between artist book and scholarly work, between manifesto and sex memoir. There, the voices of each author, merged together in one, invite the reader to inhabit the erotic spacetime between self and other, the familiar and the strange, desire and pleasure, climax and release. That is, the spaces and temporalities of cruising itself.
JOÃO FLORÊNCIO is a professor of gender studies and the chair of sex media and sex cultures at Linköping University, Sweden. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig.
LIZ ROSENFELD was born in New York City and is based in Berlin. They are an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator.
GRACE LAVERY is a writer and academic. She is the author of several books, including Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques and Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.
LIZ ROSENFELD was born in New York City and is based in Berlin. They are an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator.
GRACE LAVERY is a writer and academic. She is the author of several books, including Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques and Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.
List of Illustrations
Series Introduction by E. G. Crichton
Foreword: Fucking Archives, by Grace Lavery
Introduction
1 Space
2 Time
3 Matter
4 Breath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Series Introduction by E. G. Crichton
Foreword: Fucking Archives, by Grace Lavery
Introduction
1 Space
2 Time
3 Matter
4 Breath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography