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    Unsafe Words
    Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era

    Shantel Gabrieal Buggs (Edited by), Trevor Hoppe (Edited by), Angela Jones (Contributions by), Alexander Cheves (Contributions by), Trevor Hoppe (Contributions by), Jane Ward (Contributions by), Gloria González-López (Contributions by), Anahi Russo Garrido (Contributions by), Mistress Velvet (Contributions by), D.S. Trumbull (Contributions by), Blu Buchanan (Contributions by), Shantel Gabrieal Buggs (Contributions by), James McMaster (Contributions by), Mark S. King (Contributions by), V. Jo Hsu (Contributions by), Dominique Morgan (Contributions by)

    9781978825413

    Hardback, published 10 February 2023

    216 pages, 12 color illus.
    20.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm, 0.054 kg

    "Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times."  (Autostraddle)

    "With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." 
    - Cati Connell (author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion) "Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." - Steven W. Thrasher (Anarchist Review of Books)

    Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex-from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. 
     
    Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.

    Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier
    Introduction 
    Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe
    Part 1: Queering Consent
    1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent 
    Angela Jones
    2. Consent in the Dark 
    Alexander Cheves
    3. Lost in the Dark-Or How I Learned to Queer Consent 
    Trevor Hoppe
    4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics 
    Jane Ward
    5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City 
    Gloria GonzÁlez-LÓpez and Anahi Russo Garrido
    6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance
    Mistress Velvet
    7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay 
    Don (D. S.) Trumbull
    Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm
    8. Before Consent, after Harm 
    Blu Buchanan
    9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation 
    Shantel Gabrieal Buggs
    10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics 
    James McMaster
    11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? 
    Mark S. King
    12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence
    V. Jo Hsu
    13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition 
    Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe
    Acknowledgments
    Notes on Contributors 
    Index 

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