Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? : Flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification, and the desire to conform /
Contributor(s): Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein.
Publisher: Oakland, CA : AK Press, c2012Description: 212 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849350884; 1849350884.Subject(s): Gays -- Identity | Homosexuality -- Social aspects | Gender identity | Gay culture | Masculinity | Masculinity in popular culture | Conformity | Assimilation (Sociology)DDC classification: 306.76601Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 306.76601 SYC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0077031 |
Introduction: Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- Fierce.net: imagining a faggotty web / D. Travers Scott -- Going from zero to sexy on high-caloric overdrive / CAConrad -- Trans/nationally femme: notes on neoliberal economic regimes, security states, and my life as a brown immigrant fag / Debanuj DasGupta -- Levity and Gravity / Chris Bartlett -- Death by masculinity / Ali Abbas -- Without a face / Thomas Glave -- Fucking with fucking online: advocating for indiscriminate promiscuity / Michael J. Faris and ML Sugie -- Difficult conversations / Philip Patston -- Penis is not important for that / Nick Clarkson -- Glass Blowing / Khary Polk -- Appearances and all that / Tommi Avicolli Mecca -- Girls / Gina de Vries -- Straightening the shawl / Ezra RedEagle Whitman -- The unlikely barebacker / Shepperton Jones -- Rehab for the unrepentant / Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco -- I'll tell you what I want, what I really want: homolove and accountability / Harris Kornstein -- It gets better? / Matthew D. Blanchard -- The soul of our work / George Ayala and Patrick "Pato" Herbert -- Dirt story / Lewis Wallace -- Generations / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- Prisons and closets / Jason Lydon -- A rock and a bird / Booh Edouardo -- Slow boil: AIDS and the remnants of life / Eric Stanley -- Excelsior / Jaime Cortez -- My fear, the forces beneath / Willow Aerin Fagan -- Cell Block 6 / Mishael Burrows -- Rich man's war, poor (gay) man's fight / Larry Goldsmith -- Not till the earth falls into the sun / Horehound Stillpoint -- Dancing with white boys / James Villaneuva -- Something resembling power / Kristen Stoeckeler.
This title reinvokes the anger, flamboyance and subversion once thriving in gay subcultures in order to explore the perils of assimilation and call for accountability and provide a vision for change.