EAN: 9783856764753

IN THE DAYLIGHT OF OUR EXISTENCE

"Our survival requires that we alter our environment so that we can live and so that we can
hold each other's hands and so that we can kiss each other on the streets  and in the daylight
of our existence  without terror and without violent and sometimes fatal reactions from the
busybodies of America." Black feminist poet  author  activist and professor June Jordan wrote
these words in 1991 for an address to the Bisexual  Gay  and Lesbian Student Association at
Stanford University. In the address  she encouraged radical alterations of the built
environment as crucial to what she called "A New Politics of Sexuality." She did not tell her
listeners what this altered environment would look like  but she elicited their imagination in
conceiving of a place for living  intimacy  and visibility  what that space would feel like 
and what else it could make possible. Tracing the coalitional efforts of feminist  queer  and
trans organizations in housing  health care  and artistic spaces  this book takes up Jordan's
theoretical premise to work against normative ideas about gender and sexuality through
environmental transformation. It presents methods for crafting LGBTQIA+ histories of
architecture by investigating planning  resistance  and refusal all in favor of richer communal
lives in New York City  Los Angeles  St. Louis  Toronto  and the Mexican borderlands. A wide
range of poems  meeting notes  memos  zines  photos  artwork  and blueprints offer insight into
the intersection of architectural history and gender studies.

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