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Perverts by Kay Gabriel

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Perverts

Kay Gabriel

Nightboat Books · Paperback · October 10, 2025

Reading lane: Queer Literary Criticism

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Good for readers who enjoy Queer Literary CriticismGood for readers interested in lgbtqGood for fans of Poetry

Book Details

Authors
Kay Gabriel
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Published
October 10, 2025
Format
Paperback
Theme
Queer Literary Criticism · Transgender Studies
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Queer Literary Criticism

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Publisher Categories

  • LGBTQ+ Poetry

  • Love Poetry

  • Women Poets

About This Book

Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s question—how do we turn what we have into what we need to get what we wa...

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Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s question—how do we turn what we have into what we need to get what we want? Synthesizing her own dreams with those of her friends, Kay Gabriel’s Perverts is an exercise in turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause..

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