Kevin Brazil: Whatever Happened to Gay Happiness?

UK 2022, 231 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Cipher
In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age: whatever happened to queer happiness? Exploring the lives of artists and writers from the past, current discourse around queerness and his own experiences, Brazil argues that art and literature needs to move ... Weiterlesen

Jack Guiness (ed.): The Queer Bible

UK 2021, 320 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Harper Collins
A collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today's queer heroes write about the icons that ... Weiterlesen

Jen Winston: Greedy

Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much. USA 2021, 320 pp., brochure, € 25.95
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Simon and Schuster
This collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit. If Jen Winston knows one thing for sure, it's that she's bisexual. Or wait-maybe she isn't? Actually, she definitely is. Unless...she's not? Jen's provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: 12 Bytes

UK 2021, 288 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Random House
Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love. This new book from Jeanette Winterson, drawing on her years of thinking about and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations. She looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, ... Weiterlesen

RuPaul: GuRu

USA 2018, 208 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 34.95
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Harper Collins
A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the worlds most famous shape-shifter drag queen RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty years. »GuRu« is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building the life you want from the outside in and the inside out. »You're born naked ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Your Silence Will not Protect You

UK 2017, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Silver
Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, writing in and about the US of 2017 in which a misogynist with white supremacist followers is president. But she was born in 1934, published her first book of poetry in 1968, and died in 1992. Black, lesbian and feminist - the child of immigrant parents - poet and essayist, writer and activist, ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

USA 2017, 144 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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ixia press
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine

Essays for Dissenting Adults. UK 2017, 384 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
This collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous articles provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today. Penny is lyrical ... Weiterlesen

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and others (eds.): Trans Studies

The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities. USA 2016, 270 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms. »Trans Studies« is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together ... Weiterlesen

Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker (eds.): Postposttransexual

Key Concepts for a 21st-Century Transgender Studies. USA 2014, 255 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Duke University Press
This inaugural issue to the Transsexual Quarterly (TSQ) pays homage to Sandy Stone's field-defining »Posttranssexual Manifesto« and assesses where the field is now and where it seems to be heading. Comprising nearly sixty short essays by authors ranging from graduate students to senior scholars, the issue takes on such topics as biopolitics, disability, political economy, childhood, trans-of-color critique, area studies, ... Weiterlesen

John D'Emilio: In a New Century

Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life. USA 2014, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A pioneering scholar of gay history, John D'Emilio reflects in this wide-ranging collection of essays upon the social, cultural, and political changes provoked by LGBT activism. He offers provocative questions and historical analyses: What can we learn from a life-long activist like Bayard Rustin, who questioned the wisdom of »identity politics«? Was Richard Nixon a »gay liberationist«? How can knowing ... Weiterlesen

Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote: Gender Failure

CAN 2014, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers - they are also both admitted »gender failures«. In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. Based on their acclaimed 2012 ... Weiterlesen

Sigrid Schmitz / Grit Höppner (ed.): Gendered Neurocultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses

Ö 2014, 403 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Zaglossus - challenge GENDER 2
Brain research is a key area of research to the question of what constitutes the human. With its methods of brain imaging human behavior seems to be explainable and predictable. This anthology presents from an interdisciplinary perspective differentiated analyses of scientific knowledge production that is concerned with sex/gender and the brain. It gains particular insights into the transformation or persistence ... Weiterlesen

Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands / La Frontera

USA 2012, 304pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. »Borderlands / La Frontera« remaps our understanding of what a »border« is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but ... Weiterlesen

Sushila Mesquita, M. K. Wiedlack, K. Lasthofer: IMPORT - EXPORT - TRANSPORT

Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion. Herausgegeben von Sushila Mesquita, Maria Katharina Wiedlack, Katrin Lasthofer Ö 2012, 349 S., Broschur, € 24.95
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Zaglossus - challenge GENDER 1
Twenty years after the emergence of »queer« as a political concept, the contributions to this anthology discuss the radical potential of queer theory and activism within different spatial, cultural, and socio-political contexts. Both the term »queer« as well as initial concepts of queer critique are not only closely connected to the English language but also to the Anglo-American socio-political context. ... Weiterlesen

Nuala O'Faolain: A Radiant Life

USA 2011, 302pp., brochure, € 15.95
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The selected journalism of Nuala O'Faolain presents an unequivocal voice - tackling a vast range of subjects - from Catholicism to Feminism - from Frank Sinatra to Africa - and from Irish American Culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and always passionate. Through the prism of casual, ... Weiterlesen

Joan Gordon / Veronica Hollinger / Wendy Gay Pea: Queer Universes : Sexualities in Science Fiction

UK 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Reborn

Early Diaries 1947-1963. UK 2009, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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This first volume of Sontag's private journals is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontag's writing - extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity. At 15, when these journals began, Sontag already displayed her ferocious intellect and hunger for experience and culture, though we're watching Sontag grow into one of the century's leading minds. Sontag details her ... Weiterlesen