Join Another Story Bookshop as we celebrate the double book launch for:

Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places by Jin Haritaworn

(Pluto Press)

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, revised and expanded second edition, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith

(AK Press)

With Jin Haritaworn, Eric A. Stanley, Ralowe T. Ampu and Toshio Meronek

Thursday, October 8th @7pm

Another Story Bookshop

315 Roncesvalles Avenue (at Grenadier)

Free - all welcome

Our entrance is wheelchair accessible but not our bathroom

QUEER LOVERS

In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others (https://www.facebook.com/haritaworn?fref=ts), Jin Haritaworn argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the 'homophobic migrant' who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic, and disposable.

Haritaworn sees the queer lover as a transitional object which allows the present-day neoliberal regime to make punishment and neglect appear as signs of care and love for diversity. Alongside this shift, in the wake of older moral panics over crime, violence, patriarchy, integration, and segregation, the 'homophobic migrant' appears as the new Other. To understand this transition, Queer Lovers and Hateful Others looks at the regenerating environments in which queer bodies have become worthy of protection, and the everyday erasures that shape life in the inner city, and how queer activists actively seek out and dispel the myths of sites of nostalgia for the 'invented traditions' of women-and-gay-friendliness.

Jin Haritaworn is Assistant Professor of Gender, race and environment at York University in Canada.

CAPTIVE GENDERS

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Gender is a challenge for us all to join the struggle.This expanded edition contains four new essays, including a foreword by CeCe McDonald and a new essay by Chelsea Manning.

Eric A. Stanley works at the intersection of radical trans/queer politics, abolitionist study, and critical theory. They are an assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside.