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Queer nightlife / edited by Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramon H. Rivera-Servera.

Adeyemi, Kemi, 1985- (editor.). Khubchandani, Kareem, 1982- (editor.). Rivera-Servera, Ramón H., 1973- (editor.).

Summary:

"The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence, and negation. Queer Nightlife joins this conversation by centering queer and trans people of color who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation. The book focuses on house parties, nightclubs, and bars that offer improvisatory conditions and possibilities for "stranger intimacies," and that privilege music, dance, and sexual/gender expressions. Queer Nightlife extends the breadth of research on "everynight life" through twenty-five essays and interviews by leading scholars and artists. The book's four sections move temporally from preparing for the night (how do DJs source their sounds, what does it take to travel there, who promotes nightlife, what do people wear?); to the socialities of nightclubs (how are social dance practices introduced and taught, how is the price for sex negotiated, what styles do people adopt to feel and present as desirable?); to the staging and spectacle of the night (how do drag artists confound and celebrate gender, how are spaces designed to create the sensation of spectacularity, whose bodies become a spectacle already?); and finally, how the night continues beyond the club and after sunrise (what kinds of intimacies and gestures remain, how do we go back to the club after Orlando?)"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780472074785
ISBN: 9780472054787
Physical Description: vii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Copyright: c2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Before. That magical touch: Migrant nocturnal stories in queer Jackson Heights -- Jockstraps and crop tops: Fat queer femmes dressing for the night -- . . . waiting . . . -- The police and the policed: Queer crossings in a Bombay bathroom -- Relational generativity in South African queer nightlife -- "Dance with Me in the Disco Heat": Nowhere Bar's temporal shifts -- "people bring their histories to the club": An interview with DJ Rekha -- Inside. Pedagogies of the dark: Making sense of queer nightlife -- Queering dancehall in the diaspora -- "I Came Here to Work": Transgender Latinas' labors in the club -- La Gozadera: Lesbian transfeminist worldmaking in Mexico City -- Ecstatic resilience -- After closing time: Ambivalence in remembering a small-city lesbian bar -- Ms. Briq House in her own words -- Show. Dancing on the edge, in the silence: Trajal Harrell's Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (L) -- Una Pena en Parraga: Drag kings and Cuba's sexual revolution -- Muxes have crossed the border: Altivas, celebration, and Walls That Bleed -- From the club to the fiesta: Drag and folklore in La Familia Galan -- From streetwalking to the catwalk: Red-light nightlife and the girls of Daspu -- We are not special, we are just here: An interview with Alexandre Paulikevitch -- After. Public notice from the Fucked Peepo: Xandra Ibarra's "The Hookup/Displacement/Barhopping/Drama Tour" -- Remember the time: Black queer nightlife in the South -- Keeping it on the download: The viral afterlives of Paris Is Burning -- After the Eighties . . . A queer afterlife: An interview with Eduardo Alegria.