Avidly Reads Making Out by Kathryn Bond Stockton - 9781479843275

Avidly Reads Making OutAuthor(s): Kathryn Bond Stockton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479843275, 978-1479843275\nSynopsis\n\""Here's the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.\""\n Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you're kissing, where it's leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly, but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? For Kathryn Bond Stockton, making out is a prism through which to look at the cultural and political forces of our world: race, economics, childhood, books, and movies. Making Out is Stockton's memoir about a non-binary childhood before that idea existed in her world. We think about kissing as we accompany Stockton to the bedroom, to the closet, to the playground, to the movies, and to solitary moments with a book, the ultimate source of pleasure.\n Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us fee.