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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History by Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, Liam Warfield

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graveyardpansy's review

5.0

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this book is really wonderful. i do think it’d be harder to appreciate for people without much of a background knowledge base about queercore, but having a clear audience isn’t a downside!

kungtofu's review

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informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

lsparrow's review

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3.0

love queer history- although did not particularly like the style of this book - quotes from interviews spliced together. It felt a little choppy even if I did like the very personal experiences and different view points provided that would not have been as possible with a single narrative voice.

sophmcgraw's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

hxs623's review

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informative inspiring

3.5

Reading this book felt like being an introvert at a party, listening in on a bunch of strangers reminiscing with very little context. As an Eastern-European zillenial I was hoping to gain a more thorough understanding of this movement, but it falls short as an introduction - partially because of the editing. Including a brief overview of the zines,clubs, people before the chapters would have been helpful for when I cba to check the back . Overall, I get what the oral part of the title refers to here. It’s not a history book, the stories and events are obviously skewed by the perspective of time and bias. Nonetheless, it was an inspiring read that made me reconsider my relationship with the direction of the contemporary LGBTQ movement.