num_pages: 255
description: A much-needed collection that thinks through power desire and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality gender and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions. - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Outlaw WomanAgainst the austerity of straight politics Queering Anarchism sketches the connections between gender mutiny queer sexualities and anti-authoritarian desires. Through embodied histories and incendiary critique the contributors gathered here show how we must not stop at smashing the state; rather normativity itself is the enemy of all radical possibility. - Eric A. Stanley Captive GendersWhat does it mean to queer the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of GLBT identity as a new gender norm come into focus in the context of anarchist theory and practice? How do our notions of orientation inform our politics - and vice versa? Queering Anarchism brings together a diverse set of writings ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal that explore the possibilities of the concept of queering turning the dominant and largely heteronormative structures of belief and identity entirely inside-out. Ranging in topic from the economy to disability politics social structures sexual practice interpersonal relationships and beyond the authors here suggest that queering might be more than a set of personal preferences - pointing toward the possibility of an entirely new way of viewing the world.Contributors include Jamie Heckert Sandra Jeppesen Ben Shepard Ryan Conrad Jerimarie Liesegang Jason Lydon Susan Song Stephanie Grohmann Liat Ben-Moshe Anthony J. Nocella A.J. Withers and more.C.B. Daring J. Rogue Deric Shannon and Abbey Volcano are anarchists and activists who work in a wide variety of radical feminist and queer communities across the United States.
language: English
title: Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
publisher: AK Press