Queer Crafts
Material Practices and the Making of Identity
Queer Crafts
Material Practices and the Making of Identity
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Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness.
Queer Crafts provides a nuanced and timely study of the dynamic intersection of queerness and craft, examining a wide range of media – textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass. Daniel Fountain demonstrates how LGBTQ+ practitioners – including LJ Roberts, Paul Yore, Rose Schmits, Nicki Green, Hansel Tai, Affect Metals, Troy Montes-Michie, Antonius Tín-Bui, Raul De Lara, Nifemi Ogunro, Tim Tate, and Hamad Butt – use these materials as powerful vehicles for self-expression, community building, and social critique. Reframing craft through a queer and trans theoretical lens, the book analyzes how these practitioners reclaim histories, rewrite narratives, disrupt hierarchies, and craft their own worlds. A significant contribution to the field, Queer Crafts is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines.
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Table of Contents
Preface: Creatively Bent
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unraveling 'Queer' and 'Craft'
TEXTILE
Chapter 1.Threads of Kinship: Queer Worldmaking and Crafting Community
CERAMIC
Chapter 2. Ceramics in Transition: Centering the Transgender Experience
WOOD
Chapter 3. Against the Grain: Queer Furniture and The Politics of Discomfort
PAPER
Chapter 4. Paper Trails: (De)Constructing Identity Through Papercutting and Collage
METAL
Chapter 5. Shimmering Selves and Erotic Expressions in Armour and Adornment
GLASS
Chapter 6. Handle with Care: Fragility and Viral Containment
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Glossary
I: Key LGBTQ+ Terms
II: Key Technical Terms
Product details
| Published | 11 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350359376 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 34 colour illus |
| Series | Critical Craft Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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