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That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

by Mattilda Sycamore

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As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack: Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. That's Revolting! offers a bracing tonic to these trends. Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting! collects timely essays such as "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron Or Just Plain Moronic?" by unrepentant activists like Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, and Carol Queen. This updated edition contains seven new selections that cover everything from rural, working-class youth in Massachusetts to gay life in New Orleans to the infamous Drop the Debt/Stop AIDS action in New York. This lively composite portrait of cutting-edge queer activism is a clarion call for anyone who questions the value of becoming the Stepford Homosexual.
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Susan Wiget, November 12, 2009 (view all comments by Susan Wiget)
The word “radical” does not mean “extreme” but rather “going to the root.” That is, being radical is about going to the root of the problem, the root of our patriarchal a.k.a. dominator society, finding solutions for overthrowing it, and living as much as possible outside of the dominant system. During the same-sex marriage debate, I kept reflecting on how marriage was invented for the purpose of enslaving women. I kept signing petitions in favor of gay marriage while feeling apprehensive and wondering why lesbians, especially, would want to participate in such a patriarchal establishment.

Reading the anthology That’s Revolting was a great relief, because it proves that many people see things the same way I do, from a radical point of view rather than a liberal point of view. That’s Revolting is for those who want a nonviolent revolution, not a white picket fence and a house in suburbia. It is for those who question the American dream rather than gobble up capitalism, respectability, or the nuclear family lifestyle. It is for those who wish to overthrown marriage and the military, not participate in them. This diverse anthology is social criticism, inspiration, words of reassurance that radical activism continues, and a call to action.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781593761950
Subtitle:
Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
Author:
Sycamore, Mattilda
Editor:
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
Publisher:
Soft Skull Press
Subject:
Gay Studies
Subject:
Identity
Subject:
Gays
Subject:
Lesbian Studies
Subject:
Assimilation (sociology)
Subject:
Gays -- United States -- Identity.
Edition Description:
Revised and Rev
Publication Date:
May 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
350
Dimensions:
9.02x6.02x.95 in. .93 lbs.
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