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That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

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ISBN-10: 1593761953

ISBN-13: 9781593761950

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Counterpoint Staff, Matt Bernstein Sycamore

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As a gay elite prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. That's Revoluting! skewers assimilationist trends with incisive essays like "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Is Gay Marriage Racist?" and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron Or Just Plain Moronic?" This expanded edition contains the original work by dozens of visionaries, including Patrick Califia, Dean Spade, and Carol Queen, as well as five new selections that cover everything from rabble-rousing with the Gay Liberation Front in the 1960s to blowing up buildings with the George Jackson Brigade in the 1970s, current-day rural queer youth organizing in…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 5/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

There's more to life than platinum: challenging the tyranny of sweatshop-produced rainbow flags and participatory patriarchy
Church, State, Acid Trips, the Merry-go-Round, Patriots, the Conspiracy, and Diapers
Dykes and Fags Want Everything: Dreaming with the Gay Liberation Front
Queering the Underground
It's All About Class
Sites of Resistance or Sites of Racism?
Fighting to Win
Gay Art Guerrillas: Interview with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman
More Abercrombie Than Activist?
Choice Cuts
Legalized Sodomy is Political Foreplay
Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?
Never a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride
Is Gay Marriage Racist?
Children, the Trucks, Chainmail, Time, the Border, Skin Problems, the Feds, and the Urban Eco-Village of Your Dreams
Sylvia and Sylvia's Children: A Battle for a Queer Public Space
Unsuitable for Children
Revolting
A Tragic Love Story, or The Love Affair As Defining Moment, or The Love Affair That Never Happened
Inside the Box
Riding Radio to Choke the IMF
Sexing up the Conflict
Vitoligo vs. the Drapetomania Syndrome
Sex, Gender, and Letters to Myself
Piss, Transnational Capital, Lice Remover, the Piers, Mary, Dr. Laura, the Naked Truth, and Ricki Lake
Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face
Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!
That Incredible Exhilaration: An Interview with Jim Eigo from The ACT UP Oral History Project
Fed Up Queers
Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza
Stripping for the Movement
Stayin' Alive: Trans Survival and Struggle on the Streets of Philadelphia
Getting to the Root
Corroding our Quality of Life
Dealing Discourse: Drugs and the (Re)invention of Resistance
Bios
Acknowledgments
About the Author