Unsafe Words

Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Trevor Hoppe, Angela Jones , Alexander Cheves

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Rutgers University Press
10 February 2023

Public speaking guides; Semantics; Society & culture: general; Gay & Lesbian studies; Gay studies (Gay men); Sociology: sexual relations

Series: Q+ Public

Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? 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. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The 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 back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic.

Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.

Contributions by: Angela Jones, Alexander Cheves, Trevor Hoppe
Edited by: Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Trevor Hoppe
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 32g
ISBN: 9781978825406
ISBN 10: 1978825404
Series: Q+ Public
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 10 February 2023
Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

SHANTEL GABRIEAL BUGGS is an assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at Florida State University. Her research on how race, gender, and technology shape romantic and sexual relationships has appeared in such journals as Sociological Inquiry, Identities, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. TREVOR HOPPE is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His research analyzes the social control of sex by institutions of medicine, law, and public health. He is the author of Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness and co-editor of The War on Sex.

Reviews for Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era

"""With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike."" --Cati Connell ""author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion"" (9/30/2022 12:00:00 AM) ""We need Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era now more than ever. A vital cultural reckoning with sexual assault and harassment brought issues of consent to the forefront - but often oversimplified them. We now need a more nuanced discussion of how consent may be understood and enacted. This groundbreaking collection brings together voices that explore and expand how concepts as such as power, assent, identity, autonomy, and community function in many people's lives. It is imperative reading for everyone - policymakers, scholars, sexual liberationists - who grapples with these questions.""--Michael Bronski ""author of A Queer History of the United States"""