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A review by moonytoast
Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire by J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, C.B. Daring, Abbey Volcano
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