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cisgendered
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Crossings
cruising
dissonance
embodied histories
ephemerality
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erotica
eroticism
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gay
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genderqueer
geographies of being
harmony
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Joao Florencio
lesbian
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Liz Rosenfeld
materiality
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memoir
plastic potentiality
pleasure
public space
queer ecologies
queer erotics
queer geographies
queer methodology
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self and other
sex
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strangeness
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transformative relationships.
transgender
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- ISBN 9781978837553
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising has existed for as long as anyone outside the dominant sex and gender systems has sought sexual encounters outside of sanctioned norms. This book offers a serious exploration of queer sex and sex cultures, exploring cruising as a mode of thinking with the body and communicating through sexuality.
A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences, Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir. Here, the voices of each author, merged together in one, invite the reader to inhabit the erotic spacetime between self and other, the familiar and the strange, desire and pleasure, climax and release. That is, the spaces and temporalities of cruising itself.
A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences, Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir. Here, the voices of each author, merged together in one, invite the reader to inhabit the erotic spacetime between self and other, the familiar and the strange, desire and pleasure, climax and release. That is, the spaces and temporalities of cruising itself.
JOÃO FLORÊNCIO is professor of gender studies and chair of the sex media and sex cultures research area at LinkÖping University, Sweden. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig.
LIZ ROSENFELD is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Born New York City, they are based in Berlin.
LIZ ROSENFELD is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Born New York City, they are based in Berlin.
