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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising

Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising

Florêncio, João
Lavery, Grace
Rosenfeld, Liz

Paperback

Series: Q+ Public

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA StudiesPerformance Art

Publisher Price: $22.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 15, 2025

ISBN10: 1978837542
ISBN13: 9781978837546
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 166
Language: English
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.

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