Crossings

About this book

*Crossings* is a book about queer cruising. Cruising understood not only as what we do when we go out looking for sex, but cruising as a creative methodology of the erotic, one that decenters space, time, identities and the materiality of bodies, opening them all to new constellations of being, to pleasures unknown. Drawing from, but not restricted by, histories of gay male cruising, the book stages a creative autotheoretical dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising lives. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between artist book and scholarly work, between manifesto and sex memoir. There, the voices of each author, merged together in one, invite the reader to inhabit the erotic spacetime between self and other, the familiar and the strange, desire and pleasure, climax and release. That is, the spaces and temporalities of cruising itself.

Themes & subjects

About the authors

João Florêncio

1983

João Florêncio is professor of gender studies and chair of the sex media and sex cultures research area at Linköping University, Sweden. He is the author of *Bareback Porn*, *Porous Masculinities*, *Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig*.

Liz Rosenfeld

1979

Liz Rosenfeld (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Born in New York City, they are based in Berlin.

Grace Elisabeth Lavery

17 March 1983

Grace Lavery is a writer and academic who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques and Please Miss: A Heart- breaking Work of Staggering Penis