That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
by Carol Queen and Dean Spade and Patrick Califia and Daniel Burton-Rose and Sarah Schulman and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Chris Grinnell and Charlie Jane Anders and Stephanie Schroeder and Marlon M. Bailey and Priya Kandaswamy and Mattie Udora Richardson and Benjamin Shepard and Josina Manu Maltzman and Reginald Lamar and Ferd Eggan and Neil Edgar and Blake Nemec and Ralowe Trinitrotoluene Ampu and Elias seMbessakwini and Rocko Bulldagger and Simone Chess and Gina de Vries and Jennifer Flynn and Eustacia Smith and Michelle E O'Brien and Jesse Heiwa and Justin Anton Rosado and Eric Stanley and Tommi Avicolli Mecca and Priyank Jindal and Stephen Kent Jusick and Kaila Kuban
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Benjamin Shepard, and others shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commoditized, and hyper objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," "Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?"
Release Date:
September 29, 2004
