Description
A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences, Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir. Here, the voices of each author, merged together in one, invite the reader to inhabit the erotic spacetime between self and other, the familiar and the strange, desire and pleasure, climax and release. That is, the spaces and temporalities of cruising itself.
About the Author
JOAO FLORENCIO is professor of gender studies and chair of the sex media and sex cultures research area at Linkoeping University, Sweden. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, and Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig.
LIZ ROSENFELD is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Born New York City, they are based in Berlin.
GRACE LAVERY is a writer and academic. She is the author of several books, including Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques.
Reviews
"Finally, a book about cruising that is actually about friendship-sex and sensibility, desire as gateway to more connection, more critical engagement, more dreaming. Yes, Crossings rescues cruising from the drudgery of hyper-individualist masculinist posturing, invoking the sweet caress of ruined bodies against policing in all its forms. Guidebook, ode, invocation, and creative intervention, it's all here in this tender faggotry." -- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore * author of Touching the Art *
Book Information
ISBN 9781978837546
Author Joao Florencio
Format Paperback
Page Count 164
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 454g