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My Race Is My Gender
Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color
Edited by Stephanie Hsu and Ka-Man Tse
Rutgers University Press
My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. Bringing together Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian perspectives, its six contributors share their personal stories of working for racial justice and the recognition of queer gender identities.
Criminalized Lives
HIV and Legal Violence
Rutgers University Press
Criminalized Lives profiles people charged in Canada with the crime of not disclosing their HIV-positive status to sex partners. Examining how criminalization disproportionately punishes poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in Canada, Alexander McClelland investigates the consequences of criminalizing illness, which results in people being subjected to state violence rather than treated with care.
Unsafe Words
Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Edited by Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe
Rutgers University Press
Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. Resisting the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence.
Matchmaking in the Archive
19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts
Rutgers University Press
To help preserve the legacies left by earlier generations, artist E.G. Crichton selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians to pair with deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society archive. Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this remarkable creative project.
A Pill for Promiscuity
Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals
Edited by Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier
Rutgers University Press
This collection brings together academics, artists, and activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era, critique the role Big Pharma now plays in queer life, and argue for the value of sexual community, promiscuity, and pleasure.
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