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Introduction: the queer commons
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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:18 authored by Gavin Butt, Nadja Millner-LarsenThe conventional idea of the commons—a resource managed by the community that uses it—might appear anachronistic as global capitalism attempts to privatize enclosures of social life. Against these trends, contemporary queer energies have been directed toward commons-forming initiatives that sustain queer lives otherwise marginalized by heteronormative society and mainstream LGBTQ politics, from activist provision of social services to the maintenance of networks around queer art, protest, public sex, and bar cultures. This issue forges a connection between the common and the queer, asking how the category “queer” might open up a discourse that has emerged as one of the most important challenges to contemporary neoliberalization at both the theoretical and practical level. Contributors look to radical networks of care, sex, and activism present within diverse queer communities including HIV/AIDS organizing, the Wages for Housework movement, New York’s Clit Club community, and trans/queer collectives in San Francisco. The issue also includes a dossier of shorter contributions that offer speculative provocations about the radicalism of queer commonality across time and space, from Gezi Park uprisings in Turkey to future visions of collectivity outside of the internet.
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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesISSN
1064-2684Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher URL
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4Volume
24Pages
183.0Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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This is an edited special issue edited by Gavin Butt, Nadja Millner-LarsenFull text available
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Gavin Butt, Nadja Millner-LarsenLegacy Posted Date
2018-02-21Usage metrics
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