That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932360565 ISBN 13: 9781932360561

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2004

Synopsis

As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Benjamin Shepard, and others shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commoditized, and hyper objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," "Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?"

About this title

Synopsis

A THEORETICAL BLUEPRINT THAT BRINGS THE POST-IDENTITY POLITIC OF ANGRY QUEERS TO THE PUBLIC As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Benjamin Shepard, and others shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commoditized, and hyper objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community and family outside of traditional models. Essays include "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," "Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?" THAT'S REVOLTING! Shows us what the new queer resistance looks like. It uses queer identity and struggle as a starting point from which to reframe, reclaim and re-shape the world.

About the Author

Matt Bernstein Sycamore is also the author of Pulling Taffy and the editor of Tricks and Treats and Dangerous Families (all available from Turnaround). His other writing has been published widely in places as diverse as Best American Erotica, Women and Performance and Slingshot.

Edition details

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932360565
• ISBN 13: 9781932360561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Sycamore Matt Bernstein