This book is an essential guide to key artists' writings that have influenced and catalyzed contemporary queer artistic practice. Queer looks at its transition from a slur to being reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. These texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare differentiation. Artists and writers include Leigh Bowery, Hahn Thi Pham, Harmony Hammond, Derek Jarman, Lesbian Avengers, Wolfgang Tillmans and Akram Zaatari, Sergio Zevallos. This book is for critical thinkers, those who embrace or are intrigued by queer culture, activists, rebels and who enjoy the party as well as the political. edited by David J. Getsy how does it come? Paperback, 240 pages, 14.94 x 2.44 x 20.96 cm