The conventional idea of the commons-a resource managed by the
community that uses it-might appear anachronistic as global
capitalism attempts to privatize and commodify social life. Against
these trends, contemporary queer energies have been directed toward
commons-forming initiatives from activist provision of social
services to the maintenance of networks around queer art, protest,
public sex, and bar cultures that sustain queer lives otherwise
marginalized by heteronormative society and mainstream LGBTQ
politics. This issue forges a connection between the common and the
queer, asking how the category "queer" might open up a discourse
that has emerged as one of the most important challenges to
contemporary neoliberalization at both the theoretical and
practical level. Contributors look to radical networks of care,
sex, and activism present within diverse queer communities
including HIV/AIDS organizing, the Wages for Housework movement,
New York's Clit Club community, and trans/queer collectives in San
Francisco. The issue also includes a dossier of shorter
contributions that offer speculative provocations about the
radicalism of queer commonality across time and space, from Gezi
Park uprisings in Turkey to future visions of collectivity outside
of the internet. Contributors Arlen Austin, Zach Blas, Gavin Butt,
Beth Capper, Ashon Crawley, Amalle Dublon, Macarena Gomez-Barris,
Christina Hanhardt, Diarmuid Hester, Nadja Millner-Larsen, Jose
Esteban Munoz, Cenk Ozbay, Evren Savci, Eric Stanley
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