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Ladataan... Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims (vuoden 2011 painos)Tekijä: Stephen V. Sprinkle
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book represents a huge amount of painstaking research on the lives of some ordinary gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people who were murdered simply because someone didn't like who they were. Unfortunately, that research would need a much better writer to turn it into a readable book. Aside from being smug, self-righteous and sectarian, Sprinkle also takes the g/l/b/t community to task for failing to find a way to honor its dead. Hunh??? I don't know when or where he joined the community but, among other activities, we've produced a "quilt" honoring the AIDS dead which is now too large to be displayed in the Washington mall. Lately there have been extensive efforts not only to call attention to g/l/b/t suicides, but to actively do something to try to stop them. Also my community has an annual service commemorating transpeople who have been murdered in the previous year. This is not a community that ignores its dead! In addition, Sprinkles's attempts to be inclusive are often clumsy and heavy handed. In an attempt to bring non-Christian religions into the book, Sprinkle introduces a Hindu god into his story of a Sikh killed by Orthodox Jews. It's so badly written that he appears to be blaming the Hindu god for the murder rather than the people who actually did the killing (not to mention their god). This is an appalling book that should be ignored unless you want to mine the biographical research for another project. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Over 13,000 Americans have been murdered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries because of their sexual orientation and gender presentation. In Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims, Stephen Sprinkle puts a human face on the outrage and loss suffered when people die from anti-gay hatred. Beginning with new developments in the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in Laramie, Wyoming, Sprinkle tells the stories of fourteen representative LGBTQ victims whose lives were savagely cut short due to homophobia and transphobia. These are stories about people who could be your neighbor, classmate, co-worker, or friend-real, everyday people whose love was foreclosed, relationships brutally terminated, and future contributions stolen from us by outrageous, irrational hatred. Told lovingly yet unflinchingly, Unfinished Lives lifts the stories of these LGBTQ victims from undeserved obscurity, allowing their memory to live again. Relying on personal interviews and visits to the locations where these people lived, loved, and died, Sprinkle records the raw emotions, powerful movements for social change, and unexpectedly hopeful communities that arise from the ruins of those people whose only offense was to live as they were born to be. Part portraiture, part crime narrative, and part ethnography, Unfinished Lives is poised to change the conversation on hate crimes in the United States. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I want to say right here that this book is extremely graphic. There are descriptions of the hate crimes (all of which are murders, in this case; Sprinkle makes no claims as to why he chooses to focus on that, except probably because they have the most rhetorical power? which is a whole other thing,) and those descriptions can be incredibly, incredibly graphic; I was definitely triggered while reading the book more than once. Please, if you feel compelled to read this, take care of yourself while you do so.
There are also few questions about what it means to address these crimes in a larger sense. In the wake of Tyler Clementi's death, there was a lot of grappling with what it meant to think about imprisonment, framing certain actors in certain ways, and calls for death sentences. Sprinkle is not interested in those questions at all--perhaps this reflects the requests/wishes/desires of the surviving family members, who I will say he does due diligence by. He is careful and tender in his reporting of familial (biological or otherwise) relationships. But for a book making a political claim, and which is attentive to differences in race, gender, and class of victims, it is not attentive to larger questions about imprisonment. At times, it comes across as somewhat bloodthirsty, which is an odd take.
If I were to teach this (which I wouldn't,) I would pair it with Sarah Lamble's piece on Transgender Day of Remembrance. It does good journalistic work of structuring these people's lives, but there's very little heavy lifting and the parts where he justifies his reenactment of violence fall flat for me. ( )