David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the English Department at the University of Michigan and the author, most recently, of
Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and author of
David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the English Department at the University of Michigan and the author, most recently, of
Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and author of
What would it mean to build radical social, racial, and economic justice organizations that construct a complex political understanding through a vision that includes gender and sexual liberation at the center of their activism and their organizing? Focusing on sexual liberation allows a different kind of conversation about the terrible dangers people are facing. It is not just that sexuality is threatened; it is that, in the face of global economic oppression, global political terror, and the negation of so many human freedoms by those in power, a conversation about real sexual liberation becomes an indispensable conversation about radical social change and the possibility of human freedom.
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