num_pages: 91
description: Over the past ten years we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold symbolic imagery and surrealist overlapping landscapes queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse amorphous messy real and imagined queer and trans communities.In their own words queer and trans organizers artists healers comrades and leaders speak honestly and authentically about their own experiences with power love pain and magic to create a textured and nuanced portrait of queer and trans realities in America. The many themes include Black femme mental health Pacific Islander authorship fat queer performance art disability and healthcare practice sex worker activism and much more. Accompanying the narratives are Rose's startling and sinuous images that brings these leaders' words to visual life.Our Work Is Everywhere is a graphic nonfiction book that underscores the brilliance and passion of queer and trans resistance.Includes a foreword by Lambda Literary Award-winning author and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.
language: English
title: Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press