Tora D. Smith:
This “Listen Up” booklet features Scott Tucker's personal and political “message in a bottle.” His message addresses the current climate of political conservativism.
Chapters include “The Body Politic: Borders, Bodies, Stories;” “Patriarchal Populism from Right to Left;” “Feral Beings and Family Values;” “AIDS: A Great Rallying Cry;” “Act Up: Silence=Death;” and many more.
FIGHTING WORDS is about identity and solidarity in an age of global corporations and epidemics, when the borders of the body politic can still get very personal. It is a brief guide to sexual politics from Oscar Wilde to outing, from Sojourner Truth to Kate Millet, from suffragettes to Lesbian Avengers. Finally, it is a survey of liberalism in retreat, of the far right's advancing ‘cultural war,' and a call for more coherent resistance among radicals and queers.
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