{"product_id":"unfinished-grief-queer-love-and-loss-9781479837281","title":"Unfinished Grief: Queer Love and Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTakes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with queer grief\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat if, instead of overcoming grief, we learned to live with it? \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Grief\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to linger within loss and to understand mourning not as an endpoint, but as a mode of relation, continuance, and care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this lyrical follow-up to his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eAfter the Party, \u003c\/i\u003e Joshua Chambers-Letson turns toward the art and theory of grief as a way of imagining queer survival. Drawing from queer of color critique, performance studies, Asian American studies, and Black studies, Chambers-Letson explores how love and loss are inseparable conditions of queer life. Engaging artists including Yoko Ono, Gertrude Stein, Bimbola Akinbola, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joshua Rains, and Kia LaBeija, he considers the lessons art and performance teach about living with what remains unfinished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of public and private catastrophe, from war and pandemics to the ravages of racial capitalism, \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Grief\u003c\/i\u003e insists that mourning and political struggle are entwined practices. Through sensuous, reflective prose and a deeply personal critical voice, Chambers-Letson reveals how grief can be both a sustaining and shattering site of vulnerability, creativity, and communal becoming. Intimate, meditative, and defiantly alive, \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Grief\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on the queer art of mourning in this guide to the beautiful, difficult work of staying with loss and finding life within it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Chambers-Letson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Sexual Cultures #65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479837281","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46939964539017,"sku":"9781479837281","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9cf4c34d-e09a-466b-8e90-7851dda27d23.jpg?v=1781662545","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/unfinished-grief-queer-love-and-loss-9781479837281","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}