Queer Lasting Ecologies of Care for a Dying World

"Learning from queer history. [Ensor's] message remains vivid as she effectively speculates on how the future of environmentalism and humanity in general can benefit from intensively and thoughtfully probing episodes of queer pain, struggle, resistance, and resurgence." (Kirkus Reviews) "Thought-provoking, timely. This compelling, evocative book expertly centers queer writing and resilience to imagine new approaches to living during environmental crises." (Library Journal) "Queer Lasting is built around a lightning-bright insight: that queer writing, with its many-shaded intimacy with terminality, can help us better grasp the staggered terrors of environmental cataclysm. Ensor gives us new horizons for thinking endurance, invention, ends - as well as a luminous account of the lasting clarities of queer loss, queer theory, and queer love." (Peter Coviello, author of Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America) "A beautifully written book. Queer Lasting is enormously creative and manages to balance innovation of composition, form, and inquiry with indefatigable rigor of argumentation and marshalling of evidence. Sarah Ensor's unique temporal focus allows us access to a set of political and ethical questions about the present force of kinship and connection" (Greta LaFleur, author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America) "I've never smashed the preorder button faster than I did for this book. As climate increasingly becomes the only thing I can think about, I've been obsessed with studying queer ecology, so this book couldn't have come at a more perfect time." (Autostraddle)