In September 2011, Duke University published Jack Halberstam's most recent book, The Queer Art of Failure, a fascinating examination of 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.”
Sinclair Sexsmith sat down with Halberstam to talk pronouns, Occupy Wall Street, queer parenting, gay marriage, academics, butch identity, and the queer art of failure. Read More
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
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
Who wouldn’t want to be happy? Beyond that, who would think to question happiness as a universal goal? In The...
Xicana* writer Cherríe Moraga’s latest collection of prose and poetry covers a lot of thematic ground. Moraga has always viewed...
There’s no shortage of potentially queer content in the Shakespearean canon: cross-dressing, fairies, illicit desire and incomprehensible families. It’s surprising...
& Books Not Found Anywhere Else Compiling this list every month is bar none my most challenging duty. Gathering a...
“Make It Be Spring!” Here’s a list of new LGBT-relevant books to help us cope with the impending winter storms....
A professor of English, Elizabeth Freeman sets her literary sights on the overlaps and continuities between sexual and temporal dissidence....
On September 22, 2010, a Florida appeals court ruled the state’s thirty-three-year-old ban on adoptions by gays and lesbians unconstitutional....
