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amittaizero's review against another edition
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 against another edition
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 against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Everyone gets a unicorn.
ducksfloat's review against another edition
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 against another edition
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
moonytoast's review
challenging
informative
4.0
full disclosure: i bought this because i found it in a bookstore around the time that broey deschanel uploaded a youtube video analyzing the original series of Sex and the City and i saw that there's a chapter in this book also dedicated to an analysis of the series. have i ever watched Sex and the City? no. but trust that i will always EAT UP leftist/anarchist analyses of random tv shows i have never watched in my life!
i think this is one of those nonfiction books that you happen to stumble upon at just the right moment for it to have a maximal impact. in the past few years, it's become increasingly clear about how much the State has failed everyday americans and marginalized communities. in the past month, we've seen the biggest push against numerous civil rights and protections from the U.S. Supreme Court in decades, when multiple of these justices were placed on the court by a president who lost the popular vote. and the list goes on... to the point that this book feels more relevant now than in 2012 when it was first published.
as most works of collected essays from multiple authors go, some essays can be just hit or miss. here's some of the standout chapters from this book (in my opinion):
i think this is one of those nonfiction books that you happen to stumble upon at just the right moment for it to have a maximal impact. in the past few years, it's become increasingly clear about how much the State has failed everyday americans and marginalized communities. in the past month, we've seen the biggest push against numerous civil rights and protections from the U.S. Supreme Court in decades, when multiple of these justices were placed on the court by a president who lost the popular vote. and the list goes on... to the point that this book feels more relevant now than in 2012 when it was first published.
as most works of collected essays from multiple authors go, some essays can be just hit or miss. here's some of the standout chapters from this book (in my opinion):
- de-essentializing anarchist feminism: lessons from the transfeminism movement
- harm reduction as pleasure activism
- tearing down the walls: queerness, anarchism, and the prison industrial complex
- queer-cripping anarchism: intersections and reflections on anarchism, queerness, and disability