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Queer Nightlife
Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, EditorsThe 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?).
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Introduction
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Before
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That Magical Touch
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Jockstraps and Crop Tops: Fat Queer Femmes Dressing for the Night
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. . . waiting . . .
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The Police and the Policed
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Relational Generativity in South African Queer Nightlife
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“Dance with Me in the Disco Heat”
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“people bring their histories to the club”
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Inside
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Pedagogies of the Dark: Making Sense of Queer Nightlife
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Queering Dancehall in the Diaspora
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“I Came Here to Work”
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La Gozadera
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Ecstatic Resilience
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After Closing Time
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Ms. Briq House in Her Own Words
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Show
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Dancing on the Edge, in the Silence
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Una Peña en Párraga
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Muxes Have Crossed the Border
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From the Club to the Fiesta
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From Streetwalking to the Catwalk
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We Are Not Special, We Are Just Here
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After
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Public Notice from the Fucked Peepo
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Remember the Time
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Keeping It on the Download
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After the Eighties . . . A Queer Afterlife
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Bibliography
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
- 978-0-472-12858-7 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05478-7 (paper)
- 978-0-472-07478-5 (hardcover)
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