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Robert Reid-Pharr

Robert Reid-Pharr teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author, most recently, of Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (2016). His essays have appeared in, among other places, American Literature, American Literary History, Callaloo, Small Axe, Social Text, Transition, the African American Review, Feminist Formations, and Art in America. He lives in Brooklyn. icon

Queers Growing Old and Young

By Robert Reid-Pharr

Do queers ever grow old? Do their ideas stiffen and their sensibilities melt? Do they fret over finances and retirement accounts, the state of their kitchen plumbing ...

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