Through Rubin’s essays, readers will gain insight into the tenuous transition from second to third wave feminism, the pre-history and birth of queer theory, and the emergence of LGBT cultural studies from the margins of society to a legitimate field of academic and institutional research. Read More
In Emma Goldman’s day, as in ours, many on the Left saw issues of sexuality, happiness, and what we might generally call the “personal” as peripheral to the class struggle. Yet Goldman herself demurred. She elucidated an anarchism that was a personal as well as a political platform, and, as the subtitle to Vivian Gornick’s book suggests, she lived it out in practice. Read More
The Queer Art of Failure re-examines how we conceive of the idea of failure in our society, not so that we may correct ourselves, but so that we may see how our various “failures” may actually produce a preferable alternative to conformist lifestyles and the status quo. Read More
That Wayne Koestenbaum is a formidable talent is evident within the first few pages of his short book of literary criticism,Humiliation (Picador). In it, Koestenbaum thinks through the concept of humiliation in many different contexts, personal and political. What emerges is a poetic and often profound theoretical work of both academic and cultural import. Read More
‘My West: Personal Writings on the American West — Past, Present and Future’ by Patricia Nell Warren
I am delighted to say I thoroughly enjoyed Patricia Nell Warren’s My West (Wild Cat Press), a collection of previously...
2011 Lambda Literary Award Winner In her exciting and provocative book Assuming a Body: Transgender and the Rhetorics of Materiality,...
Workers? Check. Athletes? Check. Cute boys ready to sell Abercrombie & Fitch? Check. Bodybuilder beefcake? Check. This book is bursting...
The rowdy, queer contributors to Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (Arsenal Pulp Press) address the immediate, often loaded, topic...
In December 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, it signaled not only an...
Who wouldn’t want to be happy? Beyond that, who would think to question happiness as a universal goal? In The...
