Author(s): Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele present a chronicle of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action using the graphic format meaningfully and playfully. While an introduction they don’t shy away from the complexity of identity and politics drawing on fields as diverse as culture, biology, psychology and sexology. The concept of queerness is explained and challenged through shifts in historical understanding, theory, activism, media and day-to-day interactions.
I appreciated that they did not compromise on outlining how multifaceted and thorny the issue can be, rather choosing to give an overture to all of the messiness. This makes for a better map that one that may appear clearer, but you get lost due to missed alleyways.
While not everyone has a deep curiosity or passion for the issue of gender and sexuality (or for academic theory for that matter), but the book’s intersectional approach confronts us with situations that we see every day. Queer conversations can help us to have people conversations with greater depth and empath. This book is both clarifying and directly challenges the reader to ask more questions, questions about yourself, how you relate to others and dynamics within society more broadly.
Non-Fiction, Self-Development
About: Sexuality and Gender
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