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RADICAL DESIRES

An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire. Despite a historically rich tradition
of thinking about the relation between sexuality  desire  and revolution  there is little
engagement with desire's radicality today. This volume attends to the radicality of desire as a
starting point for overcoming heteropatriarchal capitalism by turning to the specific radical
homosexual critique as it was first formulated in France in the 1970s in the writings of the
Mouvement de Libération des Femmes and the Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire  as well
as in the conceptions of their most important protagonists  Monique Wittig and Guy Hocquenghem.
Radical Desires seeks to emphasize the anti-identitarian character of the French gay liberation
movement  as well as its implicit and explicit critique of gender and sexual binaries. At the
same time  the volume is also interested in intersectionally expanding this critique by
confronting it with anticolonial and queer of color perspectives. As French gay liberation
activists' relations to North African men were often problematic  several contributions engage
with the latent orientalist and racist tropes that appear in the movement's writings. By aiming
to go beyond a mere historicization of these ambivalences and exploring which contemporary
problems appear in a different light as a result  Radical Desires highlights the
(dis-)continuous relationship between current debates and those in 1970s France. To explore the
multiplicity of forms with or in which these critiques were expressed  this volume places
theoretical perspectives in conversation with artistic perspectives on queer liberation in a
transnational context. Contributors include Friederike Beier  Antoine Idier  Émilie Notéris 
Lukas Betzler  Mohammad Shawky Hassan  Sido Lansari  Todd Shepard  and Julian Volz.

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