Unfinished Grief Queer Love and Loss

"Erudite, brilliant, and personally vulnerable (without capsizing into sentimentality), Queer Love and Loss reroutes conversations about queer of color life. Tracking grief's looping trajectories and breathtakingly demonstrating the reparative's alliance with whiteness, this volume argues that love is about staying with brokenness. Here is theory made not only for thinking, but also, and especially, for living." - Avgi Saketopoulou, author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

"In this lyrical, moving, textually performative and theoretically inspiring work, Joshua Chambers-Letson continues to deepen our understandings of queer and BIPOC love, loss, grief, and the "living on" of remembrance, survival, and More Life. Spotlighting the work of BIPOC, queer and trans artists who stage an art of breaking down, of queer continuance, of looping rather than linear time, this book gifts us with a brilliant analysis of theoretical debates on reparation, depression, paranoia, and melancholia, and offers overwhelm/ shattering as potential portals to an art of breaking down that might foster queer continuance. Unfinished Grief is a tribute to the ways we might sustain each other, in moments of beauty and pleasure, never forgetting those we love and have lost, living on amid so much that would kill us." - Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California