Videos as media have always had close ties to art as well as everyday culture, and even to subcultural and countercultural movements in society. Artificial and music videos provide an immensely subversive potential. Artists and musicians are resistant to traditional values, transgress and fathom social norms and gender stereotypes. This volume explores artificial strategies in the context of punk history ... Weiterlesen

Grace Lavery: Please Miss

UK 2022, 288 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Faber and Faber

Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a 1960s femmebot. She ... Weiterlesen

Alok Vaid-Menon: Beyond the Gender Binary

UK 2020, 64 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Penguin UK - Pocket Change Collective

�Beyond the Gender Binary,� spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Juno Dawson (ed.): Proud

Stories, Poetry and Art on the Theme of Pride. UK 2019, 352 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Little Tiger

A anthology of stories and poetry by top lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Young Adult authors and artists as well as new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride. Each story has an illustration by an artist identifying as part of the LGBTQ community. Compiled by Juno Dawson, author of �This Book Is Gay�.

Melissa M. Wilcox: Queer Nuns

Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody. USA 2018, 336 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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New York University Press

An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as �twenty-first century queer nuns,� the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns' habits and went for a stroll through San Francisco's gay Castro district. ... Weiterlesen

Gunny Catell: Rise Like a Faerie

A Radical Fairie Trail. � 2015, Engl./dt. Text, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.90
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The Radical Faeries is a pioneering movement that started in the Gay Liberation era. Gunny Catell is travelling the world for eight years now to participate at the Radical Faeries gatherings as �Mata Hari�. He wrote this Faerie book to tell about his personal experiences with the Radical Faeries - about his visions and confessions, too. The book offers insights ... Weiterlesen

Maria Katharina Wiedlack: Queer-feminist Punk - An Anti-Social History

� 2014, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Zaglossus

This monography highlights queer-feminist punk productions, protagonists and scenes within punk rock and provides a historic overview from the 1980s until today. The book shows how queer-feminist punk is capable of negotiating and communicating queer-feminist theoretical positions in a non-academic setting, thereby producing alternative forms of political movement and of queer theory. By combining feminist and decolonial accounts with their ... Weiterlesen
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David M. Halperin: How to Be Gay

USA 2014, 549 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Harvard University Press

If you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea is just a stereotype - ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. The author - pioneer ... Weiterlesen

Rahul Mehta: Quarantine

Stories. USA/UK 2011, 214 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, the author sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in �Quarantine� - openly gay Indian-American men - are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship and sex, while struggling to maintain relationships with their families and cultural traditions. Grappling with the issues that concern all gay men - social acceptance, ... Weiterlesen

W.C. Harris: Queer Externalities

Hazardous Encounters in American Culture. USA 2009, 251 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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In TV shows such as �Queer Eye for the Straight Guy�, and movies like �Brokeback Mountain�, as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer people - including the outing of several prominent Republicans - queer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of ... Weiterlesen

Jos� Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press

There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jos� Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process �disidentification�, and through a ... Weiterlesen