1st Edition
Queer Resistance and Education for Suicide Prevention HIV/AIDS Activism and Structural Change for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities
By Kody Muncaster
Copyright 2027
242 Pages
by
Routledge
This book takes inspiration from AIDS activist history to argue that current individualized approaches to the queer suicide crisis could be expanded to include structural work. Critiquing initiatives that fail to address traumatic conditions causing queer suicidality, it proposes adapting AIDS activist strategies as educational resistance to the structural forces that make many queer people not... Read more
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Queer Trauma of AIDS and Suicide in Necropolitical Times Chapter 2: Queer Necropolitical Approaches to AIDS and Public Pedagogy Chapter 3: Queering Suicide Prevention: Affect and the Need to Make It Better Chapter 4: The Queer Non-Profit Industrial Complex, the Opioid Epidemic, and Trans Organizational Possibilities Chapter 5: Caring and Resilience to Suicide: A Structural Community Toolkit Chapter 6: Conclusion: On Queer Hope
Biography
Kody Muncaster holds a PhD in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and is a trauma therapist for marginalized communities.
