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frog_appreciator's review
4.5
Lots of really great jumping off points here. Happy to have been introduced to emma goldman! My main criticism is how not all the essays are layman friendly, as was the purpose of the book. Some definitely were! but some threw around lots of words that if you you didn’t already understand them, you’d be lost.
clovelatte's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
amittaizero's review
3.0
This book can be dense despite the editor's intent to avoid this. Sometimes it becomes buried in jargon to the point that some of the essays are unreadable - but for the most part it's worth the intermittent struggle.
cynki's review
3.0
It was okay. The essays kind of ranged in quality quite a bit. There were a few that really stuck out to me--the one about crip theory and the prison complex stood out to me, as well as one touching on the evolution of capitalism a little bit. But for the most part the essays felt kind of basic and not anything new to anyone who knows the basics of queer theory or anarchist theory. Quite a few of them felt a little too much like "What about the straights?". I think there's value in discussing and analyzing straight people and how they relate to their sexuality and straightness as a construct/concept, but that's not what I'm looking for in a book about queer people.
Overall I found the harder theory stuff more interesting, but the rest of it felt too much like fluff. I figure this book is aimed more at anarchists who haven't engaged with queer thought rather than the other way around.
Overall I found the harder theory stuff more interesting, but the rest of it felt too much like fluff. I figure this book is aimed more at anarchists who haven't engaged with queer thought rather than the other way around.
se7en13's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Everyone gets a unicorn.
ducksfloat's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
So informative ! So many marks read. Really happy I finally got around to this. A lot of transformative ideas I'll reread and bring with me
the_vegan_bookworm's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Like with many books on queer theory, this book shaped my own understanding of my queerness while also giving me much more information on anarchism and the diverse ways to approach anarchist theory. Like any other essay anthology, there were some essays that were stronger than others but I felt that the overall collection of essays were well-written and well-chosen.
My favourite essays were "Gay Marriage and Queer Love" by Ryan Conrad, "Queering Our Analysis of Sex Work: Laying Capitalism Bare" by C.B. Daring, and "Queer-Cripping Anarchism: Intersections and Reflections on Anarchism, Queerness and Dis-ability" by List Ben-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella II and AJ Withers.
My favourite essays were "Gay Marriage and Queer Love" by Ryan Conrad, "Queering Our Analysis of Sex Work: Laying Capitalism Bare" by C.B. Daring, and "Queer-Cripping Anarchism: Intersections and Reflections on Anarchism, Queerness and Dis-ability" by List Ben-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella II and AJ Withers.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Police brutality, Transphobia, and Homophobia