MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!!!

Next week I’m on a mini-book tour, with a stop in New Orleans and then New York! Join me in NOLA at Frenchman’s Art & Books on Tuesday, June 14 for a reading and signing at 6:30pm. For more info, see: https://frenchmenartandbooks.com

Then I’ll be in NYC at The Bureau of General Services, Queer Division for a reading and signing with the amazing PAMELA SNEED! Thursday, June 16 at 7pm. For more info, see: https://bgsqd.com/event/writing-our-own-queer-histories-jonathan-alexander-pamela-sneed/

STROKE BOOK is OUT!!!

SO excited to have Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot finally out in the world. Available everywhere, but please order from Fordham UP to support the press: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823297665/stroke-book/.

Reviews:

Jonathan Alexander's Stroke Book is a fascinating auto-theoretical essay on illness and queer sexuality through the prism of his own health crisis that occurred after he had a minor stroke, causing visual impairment and anxiety about his own mortality. Alexander''s aphoristic style combines bits and pieces of phenomenological reflection with social and cultural analysis, creating a kaleidoscopic portal into the experience of stroke and its aftermath.---Lisa Diedrich, author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS and the Course of Health Activism

Jonathan Alexander has given us an unexpected gift: an intimate performance of phenomenological writing that refuses the drive to process and package a life-altering experience of illness, embracing instead the daily imbrication of undependable vision, uncertain prognosis, and robust, resilient desire. Like the survival of its author in the wake of a sudden stroke, this book is a minor miracle.---Patrick Anderson, author of Autobiography of a Disease, and So Much Wasted

QUEER UTOPIAS, a webinar

SAVE THE DATE!

QUEER UTOPIAS

an online symposium

Friday, April 9, 2021

“Queer Utopias” is a one-day celebration of the forms, modes, and styles of happy queer placemaking. In a historical present dominated by contestations over the future of political life, claims and counterclaims to hidden knowledge, and the inflammatory effects of paranoia, this symposium highlights those hopeful experiments of the past and present whose legacies of pleasure, ease, care, and joy might inspire future experimentation and maybe, by doing so, remake the world.

10 am Pacific

Panel: “Horizons of Queer Utopias”

Jayna Brown, Pratt Institute

Jill Richards, Yale University

Alexis Lothian, University of Maryland

Noon Pacific

Film Screening: ONCE A FURY

https://onceafury.com/

1:30 pm Pacific

Post-Screening Discussion with the Director

Jacqueline Rhodes, Michigan State University

2:30 pm Pacific

Roundtable: “Utopias Cruised: Thinking With — and Beyond — Muñoz”

Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh

Timothy Oleksiak, U. of Massachusetts, Boston

Seth E. Davis, Curry College

Sherryl Vint, U. of California, Riverside

Hosted by Rebekah Sheldon, Indiana University,

and Jonathan Alexander, U. of California, Irvine.

Sponsored by UCI School of Humanities;

UCI Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies; IU Department of English.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.

When: Apr 9, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Queer Utopias

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://uci.zoom.us/.../register/WN_PQqlX0s3RKWwrhl-mQWN2w

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