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After the Party

A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

By: Joshua Chambers-Letson

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After the Party

A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

By: Joshua Chambers-Letson

Winner, 2019 ATHE Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, 2018 Errol Hill Award in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina Simone, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Danh Vō, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eiko, and Tseng Kwong Chi, and with additional appearances by Nao Bustamante, Audre Lorde, Martin Wong, Assata Shakur, and Nona Faustine, After the Party considers performance as it is produced within and against overlapping histories of US colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. Building upon the thought of José Esteban Muñoz alongside prominent scholarship in queer of color critique, black studies, and Marxist aesthetic criticism, Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portrait of performance’s capacity to produce what he calls a communism of incommensurability, a practice of being together in difference. Describing performance as a rehearsal for new ways of living together, After the Party moves between slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, the first wave of the AIDS crisis, the Vietnam War, and the catastrophe-riddled horizon of the early twenty-first century to consider this worldmaking practice as it is born of the tension between freedom and its negation. With urgency and pathos, Chambers-Letson argues that it is through minoritarian performance that we keep our dead alive and with us as we struggle to survive an increasingly precarious present.

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1479846465

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Petite Mort

Recollections of a Queer Public

By: Carlos Motta,Joshua Lubin-Levy,Forever & Today, Inc

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Petite Mort

Recollections of a Queer Public

By: Carlos Motta,Joshua Lubin-Levy,Forever & Today, Inc

Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public assembles drawings from memory of spaces in New York City where a public sexual encounter occurred. A project created in collaboration between Carlos Motta & Joshua Lubin-Levy,it features contributions from an intergenerational group of over 60gay men. Conceived as an atlas of queer affection, Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public proposes a subjective blueprint of the city, one that values not simply the space "as is," but how it has been performed and engaged,highlighting the fundamental connection between public space and queer life. The collected drawings,depicting sites extending from a residential rooftop to The Rambles in Central Park, remind us that public sex is not exclusively about a personal pursuit of pleasure-they also contain the seeds of historical social and political action that have brought together communities of gay men.Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public also asks questions challenging us to expand our vision for queer politics: What if our politics were rebuilt around a broader notion of intimacy rather than individuality? Can we foster, rather than police,the trust and affection inherent to desire and pleasure? Should equality be about difference, rather than assimilation?This book includes a preface by Forever & Today, Inc. Co-Curators Ingrid Chu & Savannah Gorton, a conversation between Carlos Motta & Joshua Lubin-Levy, and an essay by Joel Czarlinsky. Also assembled here are a series of short responses to the question "Does public sex matter?" by authors Aiken Forrett, Ann Pellegrini & Janet R. Jakobsen, Eileen Myles,Gordon Brent Ingram, Jill H. Casid, Johan Andersson, John Paul Ricco, Jose Esteban Munoz, Kate Bornstein, Katherine Franke, and Tim Dean. Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public is commissioned by Forever &Today, Inc.

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0615523919

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9780615523910