A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy

AvR. K. Maril

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Since the early 2000s, American courts and legislatures have delivered a series of generation-defining LGBTQ legal victories. Today, this progress and the very institutions that made it possible are under attack. A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy is an introduction to this democratic crisis, speaking directly to the queer and transgender people navigating the intensifying political and cultural fault lines. It argues that the current denigration of queer and transgender lives in the US is a symptom of the broader degradation of American democracy, representing the newest threat of American fascism. By centering queer and trans identity in the larger history of authoritarianism, the book highlights the strategic villainization of nonconforming groups as a tool to consolidate power and political control. In response, this book empowers readers to adopt pro-democracy frameworks rooted in the defiant authenticity and stubborn joy of queer existence, forging pathways committed to transformative social change.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-15
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009858076

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HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik
Statsskick: demokrati inom Samhälle och politik
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R. K. Maril is a Constitutional law professor, queer activist, and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Maril served as the Associate Legal Director at the Human Rights Campaign and began her legal career as a Presidential Management Fellow. Maril hosts the podcast A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy.

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'A keen and compelling analysis of democratic peril and possibility, that highlights the pivotal role of LGBTQ politics in leveraging or thwarting authoritarian designs. The shift that Maril advocates in queer politics, from institutional advocacy to 'transformative resistance' delivers a lesson which we can all learn: that formal legal rights will not be sufficient or secure, until a mobilized public shifts the focus to sources of systemic inequality and practical barriers to accessing civil life.' Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I: 1. American democracy in crisis; 2. Restorative nostalgia: the quest to make American great again; 3. Gender ideology and patriarchal authoritarianism: rejecting the 'glimpse of freedom'; Part II: 4. The courts; 5. Institutional pro-LGBTQ advocacy; Part III: 6. Beyond defense: queer transformative democratic resistance; 7. Queer democratic transformational resistance in practice; Conclusion: beyond a season of survival.