Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era (Q+ Public)

By: Angela Jones and Alexander Cheves and Trevor Hoppe and Jane Ward and Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido and Mistress Velvet and D. S. Trumbull and Blu Buchanan and Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and James McMaster and Mark S. King and V. Jo Hsu and Dominique Morgan

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Synopsis: Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978825420
Related ISBNs:: 9781978825413, 9781978825406
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/10/23
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Shantel Gabrieal Buggs
Edited by:: Trevor Hoppe

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