Book Review: Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo by Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider

Abstract

Book Reviews 331embrace awkwardness, which is necessary for one to be visible on their own terms. The curtain comes down on the "show" with Meiver De la Cruz's interview with Alexandre Paulikevitch, a Lebanese genderqueer activist and belly dancer. When asked why he dances, Paulikevitch stated that "Beyond the policing of our bodies by society, [by] the moral police and by the law (and what is imposed by law on us), we are resisting the lack of freedom, and the lack of possibilities to exist and think" (p. 205).In "After," the volume's final section, the reader is directed to consider how to remember, reminisce, and return to the obligations of the day. Essays in this section illustrate the collective recognition of belonging that can endure even after the gentrification of physical spaces, and the strategy for the survival of marginalized people across time and space. Fittingly, the chapter concludes with José Álvarez-Colón and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera's interview with Eduardo Alegría, "After the Eighties . . . A Queer Afterlife."Queer Nightlife takes the reader on a journey through the complex dimensions of queer nightlife. This journey illustrates that queer nightlife can be both amusement and sorrow, distraction and work, entertaining and mundane, satisfying and anxiety-provoking, escapism and reality. It is political and apolitical. It is frivolous and meaningful. Queer nightlife creates community in and beyond physical spaces, ultimately providing insights into the social, economic, and relational dimensions of life.