Gender & Sexuality Studies

A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

Minna Salami Here, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. This book pries apart the systems of power and privilege that have dominated ways of thinking for centuries – and which have led to so much division, prejudice and damage. And it puts forward a new, sensuous, approach to knowledge: one grounded in a host of global perspectives – from Black Feminism to personal narrative, pop culture to high art, Western philosophy to African mythology – together comprising a vision of hope for a fragmented world riven by crisis.

UK May 2023 • 208 pages PB 9781786997111 • £9.99 Previously published in HB 9781786995261 ePub 9781786995285 • £13.49 ePdf 9781786995278 • £13.49 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (excluding Canada/USA)

Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education

Challenging Institutional Structures

Edited by Churnjeet Mahn, Matt Brim & Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, UK This is an important collection examining queer scholars who are challenging institutional structures, and the queer knowledge that gets pushed out by universities. It offers insight into the work of, in and beyond academia as it is un-done in the contemporary (post)Covid moment, by queer academic-activists. In bringing together these academic-activist perspectives, the collection extends understandings of experiences of marginalization and inequality in higher education.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350273641 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350273658 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350273665 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350273672 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Academic Living and Surviving LGBTQ Equalities in India and the UK

Niharika Banerjea, O.P. Jindal Global University, India & Kath Browne, University College, Dublin, Ireland This open access book examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people beyond equality reforms. It refuses the colonizing narrative of surviving in a ‘regressive’ Global South and thriving in a ‘progressive’ Global North. By linking the concept of liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, it draws on people’s stories, art and writing to examine how lives become liveable across India and the UK, providing a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion and LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350286788 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350286771 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350286795 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350286801 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Queer Premises

LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s

Ben Campkin, University College London, UK Offers evidence for how London’s diverse LGBTQ+ populations have embedded themselves into urban space, systems and resources. It sets out to understand how, across their different material dimensions, bars, cafés, nightclubs, pubs, community centres, and hybrids of these typologies, have been imagined, created and sustained. From the 1980s to the present, the book asks how, where, and why these venues have been established, how they operate and the purposes they serve, what challenges they face and why they close down.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages PB 9781350324855 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350324862 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350324848 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350324879 • £22.49 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Academic