Queer: A Graphic History is now available. As you know, this year I translated this book about the history and currents of the queer movement, which is in quasi-graphic novel format.
This is what it looks like (it turned out great!):
What is Queer: A Graphic History about?
As its name suggests, the book is a historical perspective on both the word queer and the philosophical, social and critical movement. As the book itself tells us, its aims are as follows:
- To whet your appetite to find out more.
- To explain how queer theory became necessary as a way of questioning popular assumptions about sex, gender and identity.
- Introduce you to some of the key ideas of queer theory and its thinkers – as simply as possible – as well as some of the tensions within queer theory, and the different directions it has taken in recent years.
- To draw from queer theory what seems most useful for our daily lives, our relationships and our communities.
- The idea is to invite you to get to know queer theory and to encourage you to try to think in a queer way.
Miguel Vagalume has also written about the book, in this article in Golfxs con principios. In this article he also translates part of this interview with Meg-John Barker in VICE on the occasion of the publication of the original English version of Queer, A Graphic History.
Presentation in Madrid of Queer: A Graphic History
It would be a pleasure for me to see you next Monday 23 October, at 19h at Librería La Sombra (Calle de San Pedro, 20, Madrid). Borja Solovera and yours truly will be discussing the book and related queer issues. Here is the official invitation:
Here is the Facebook event for the presentation in Madrid of Queer: a graphic history, on 23 October 2017 at 19:00h. Click on the link above and invite your dearest friends. We’ll have a great time and you’ll be able to take away a signed copy (and even kissed, if you like).
How to get a copy
For those of you who want to buy it NOW, here is the page of Queer: una historia gráfica on the Editorial Melusina website, where there is also a free PDF excerpt.
More information about Queer: una historia gráfica
Written by: Meg-John Barker
Illustrated by: Julia Scheele
Translated by: Begoña Martínez Pagán
176 pages
Paperback bound, 17 × 25 cm
ISBN-13: 978-84-15373-53-7
Here's the page for Queer: A Graphic History on GoodReads, for those of you who manage the backlist that way. More submissions?
It is very likely that there will be an additional presentation in Barcelona soon. Regarding presentations in other cities, if you know of any bookshop or queer/feminist/literary space where you might be interested in organising a meeting, please contact me and we’ll ask the publisher.
