Friendship as
Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists
to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as
kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here
come from across the globe and are all involved in diverse movements,
including LGBTQ rights, intimate-partner violence, addiction
recovery, housing, migrant, labor, and environmental activism. Each
essay narrates how living and organizing within friendship circles
offers new ways of dreaming and struggling for social justice.
Recent scholarship
in different disciplinary fields as well as activist literature have
brought attention to the political possibilities within friendship.
The essays, memoirs, poems, and artwork in Friendship as Social
Justice Activism address these political possibilities within the
context of gender, sexuality, and economic justice movements.
