Name: Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
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Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion

Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion

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When “rights” go wrong.

Does gay marriage support the right-wing goal of linking access to basic human rights like health care and economic security to an inherently conservative tradition?
Will the ability of queers to fight in wars of imperialism help liberate and empower LGBT people around the world?
Does hate-crime legislation affirm and strengthen historically anti-queer institutions like the police and prisons rather than dismantling them?

The Against Equality collective asks some hard questions. These queer thinkers, writers, and artists are committed to undermining a stunted conception of “equality.” In this powerful book, they challenge mainstream gay and lesbian struggles for inclusion in elitist and inhumane institutions. More than a critique, Against Equality seeks to reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility!

From the Back Cover

“This exciting collection is a must read for those who are yearning for incisive critiques of biopolitical social normalization and domination. The essays are emboldening as they offer crucial rationales for resisting a range of assimilationist projects that hinge on state regulation of gender and sexuality in the service of specific racial and class formations linked to oppressive neoliberalism and capitalist models of belonging. With analyses that expose the symbolic and material stakes in “inclusion,” the authors offer radical alternatives that have decolonizing potential, while offering renewed visions of queer liberation.” – J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

“In an era when so much of the lesbian and gay movement seems to echo the rhetoric of the mainstream Establishment, the work of Against Equality is an important provocation and corrective. There is much to argue about and disagree with in this collection, but it is also a collection that burns with a passionate belief in the original idea of Gay Liberation, namely that we cannot be truly free while others remain oppressed. I hope this book is read widely, particularly by the people who will most disagree with it; in the tradition of the great political pamphleteers this collection should spark debate around some of the key issues for our movement.” — Dennis Altman, author Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation

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About this Author

Ryan Conrad is an artist, activist, and scholar from central Maine. He co-founded Against Equality (www.againstequality.org) with Yasmin Nair in 2009, and he is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Sexuality Studies at Concordia University in Montréal.

Pages: 260 pages
Publisher: AK Press (April 15, 2014)
Language: English