1st Edition

The Legacies of Matthew Shepard Twenty Years Later

Edited By Helis Sikk, Leisa Meyer Copyright 2019
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally beaten and left tied to a fence on a chill Wyoming night in October 1998. Found the next morning by two cyclists, he was transported to a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado where he died five days later. His murder was one of the most publicized and for... Read more

Introduction Part I: Where It All Started Chapter 1: Go Back, Young Man, Go Back: Peeling Away the Layers of Wyoming Culture, Down To the Earth Chapter 2: The Matt Stuff Part II: Beyond Wyoming Chapter 3: Matthew Shepard 20 Years Later: Social, Political, and Hate Crimes' Impact in Rural America Chapter 4: Metronormativity as Legacy: Matthew Shepard, Gay Rights, and Rural Place Chapter 5: Affective Aesthetics of Violence: A Legacy of Matthew Shepard Part III: Back to the Beginning Chapter 6: Whiteboard Chapter 7: Laramie Inside out: Reflections 20 Years Later, Bibliography

Biography

Helis Sikk is a Postdoctoral Fellow at DePauw University, USA. Her research takes a multidisciplinary approach to the relationships between queerness, affect, the built environment, communities, media and visual cultures. She is currently working on her monograph, which traces the affective genealogy of anti-LGBTQ violence since the 1960s.





Leisa Meyer is Community Studies Professor of AMST, History, and GSWS and the Director of the AMST Program at William and Mary, USA. Her research has engaged military history, gender/women’s history, LGBTQ history/studies, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of Creating G.I. Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps and the co-editor (with Matt Richardson) of Transgender Studies and Race, Feminist Studies, Volume 37, No. 2 (Summer 2011).