Queer traffic : Sex, panic, free trade. / Jennifer Tyburczy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyburczy, Jennifer.

, University of California Libraries, Author.

Series:

Dissident Acts

Dissident Acts.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Durham Duke University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Queer Traffic , Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives. She situates the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a pivot point in the formation of panics aimed at stamping out these outlaw sex practices. Highlighting NAFTA's erotic investments in hetero- and homonormativity, racial capitalism, markets of dispossession, and neocolonialism, Tyburczy directly engages with art, activism, and archives to revisit the struggles of people who invented circuits of sexual exchange through four decades of violence and criminalization. In conversing with actors from bureaucrats to pornographers and in studying choreographies, social movements, and street vocabularies, she examines an array of tactics that undermine the market logics of trade law and policy. Dreaming of other forms of living that go beyond mere survival, Queer Traffic guides us through the renegade pathways that circumvent the seemingly endless reach of free-trade capitalism toward other routes to pleasure.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Preface. NAFTA's Bottoms: An Opening

Introduction. Sex on the Move

1. Porn Pirates

The Free Eating Agreement

2. Importing Degradation

When the State Says "No One Likes Fat Girls

3. Sex, Drugs, and Intellectual Property Law

Exhuming the Chupacabras

4. Dancing Punta on NAFTA Time

NAFTA's Funeral

Epilogue. Why Queer Traffic(k) Now?

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4780-9452-4

OCLC:

1497729384