{"product_id":"blue-too-more-writing-by-for-or-about-working-class-queers","title":"Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers\u003c\/i\u003e contains work by twenty writers (Rigoberto González, Carter Sickels, John Gilgun, Judy Grahn, Tara Hardy, Keith Banner, and Renny Christopher, to name a few, who speak meaningfully-in short fiction, memoir, performance pieces, and prose poems-about queers in and from the working class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue, Too\u003c\/i\u003e entertains and challenges, but most of all provides a touchstone for queer working-class writers and readers, illuminating our realities, our struggles, and our resistance to assimilation and mental gentrification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers\u003c\/i\u003e contains some reader favorites from \u003ci\u003eEverything I Have Is Blue\u003c\/i\u003e (out of print since 2008) but includes nearly 400 pages of new material, including a reprint of a 1978 Judy Grahn story, a new translation from Italian, and excerpts from John Gilgun's unpublished autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a sourcebook for working-class and queer studies, meanwhile, \u003ci\u003eBlue, Too\u003c\/i\u003e features two special sections: \"A Blue Study,\" a guide for readers, writers, and scholars to using \u003ci\u003eBlue, Too\u003c\/i\u003e to examine the interlocking issues of queerness and social class, including discussion questions and prompts for writing and mini-research projects that connect the reader with working-class and LGBT scholarship; \"Reading Blue,\" an extensive annotated bibliography of more than 500 items that represents the first-ever attempt to create an exhaustive listing of materials related to queers and class; and \"Class\/Mates: Further Outings in the Literatures and Cultures of the Ga(y)ted Community,\" an expanded theoretical and critical essay that reviews the history and present of working-class queers in literature, media, and pop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e==========================\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Blue, Too is, without a doubt, the authority on working-class queer writing in the English language.\" \u003c\/b\u003e (Lambda Literary Review)\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Book of the Year.... Ricketts' (essay) 'Class\/Mates: Further Outings in the Literatures and Cultures of the Ga(y)ted Community' is worth the price of the book.\"\u003c\/b\u003e (GayToday)\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[W]ill shatter your ideas of who and what queer people are.\"\u003c\/b\u003e (The Good Men Project)\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e=====================","brand":"Fourcats Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51173086888247,"sku":"9780989980012","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_f4f55547-b417-4892-9e41-d2976100fb8e.jpg?v=1759750675","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/blue-too-more-writing-by-for-or-about-working-class-queers","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}