Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #Metoo Era Buggs Shantel Gabrieal
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #Metoo Era Buggs Shantel Gabrieal Queer people may not have invented sex. Yet our voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. But queers have…
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Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #Metoo Era Buggs Shantel Gabrieal
Queer people may not have invented sex. Yet our voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. But queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it.
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. What can we learn from the #MeToo conversation? While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, they resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse.
These 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 backroom. At the same time, they explore how