Erotic Care: A Queer Feminist Bathhouse and the Power of Attentive Action

摘要: How do queer feminist communities create sustainable spaces where alternative practices and experiences flourish? The easy answer is there are activists with vision energy. But this all it takes? Elsewhere, I have explored the part radicalized economic sexual dynamics play in creating new kinds of places (Cooper, 2008). Here, want to take a different angle on question. consider contribution care can make. Conceiving care, somewhat counter-intuitively, as ‘weighted attentive action’, ask: how does shape dynamic development new, queer, space? Specifically, I’m interested such action generates switch points, sheaths, transfers intensifications power, understanding power social energy through which things happen. This doesn’t mean rejecting an analysis relations. However, focusing exclusively relations risks disregarding power’s actual character or force. So, from post-Foucauldian perspective that conceptualizes generation effects, explore effects affected by within material context women trans bathhouse Toronto — place, since 1998, has been dedicated expressing sexualities.