we all have wish list..

                                   and mine..for books and a possible record..or two..

o.k., a white woman wants to sing Abby Lincoln, of course i was a bit skeptical, but when i read that abby sign'd off, i'm willing to try..i'll let you know what i think..i took a listen to the samples on her web site and they sound tight.. 

 Daniel Tammet's story has my attention, and i may pick this up sooner than I think i will; I read a review of him and his book in the times for Friday the 16th, which was quite interesting..

so i'm looking forward to picking his story up (plus, he's queer..which made the story all the more interesting to me..)

now, i'm so looking forward to the below cited item i'm thinking right now, would be a good time to pull off my wish list with Amazon.com..since it is about $19.00 retail and i got a little extra spending change by accident..you know..

in any case.. another item on my deals with the same subject but more in reference to black men.."Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer" by Kathryn Bond Stockton

Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp?

Stockton engages the domains of African American studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, film theory, photography, semiotics, and gender studies. She brings together thinkers rarely, if ever, read together in a single study—James Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eldridge Cleaver, Todd Haynes, Norman Mailer, Leslie Feinberg, David Fincher, and Quentin Tarantino—and reads them with and against major theorists, including Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Leo Bersani. Stockton asserts that there is no clear, mirrored relation between the terms “black” and “queer”; rather, seemingly definitive associations attached to each are often taken up or crossed through by the other. Stockton explores dramatic switchpoints between these terms: the stigmatized “skin” of some queers’ clothes, the description of blacks as an “economic bottom,” the visual force of interracial homosexual rape, the complicated logic of so-called same-sex miscegenation, and the ways in which a famous depiction of slavery (namely, Morrison’s Beloved) seems bound up with depictions of AIDS. All of the thinkers Stockton considers scrutinize the social nature of shame as they examine the structures that make debasements possible, bearable, pleasurable, and creative, even in their darkness.

“Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame is an exciting, pointed, splendidly written, culturally important book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

 Check out CSSC (center for the study of sexual culture) local academic group with similar interest as the above sited material..

i think i will be head'd that way soon enough..

they would be more than likely to have this reference material..which is on my wish list but a bit costly, like $144.00 some'ting bucks..

such expense for just reading material is not beyond my general life..but right now wouldn't be such a clever idea..

however the title alone has me wondering how soon could i get my grubby hands on this item..i'd tell you right now, if i could find a library with a copy, i'd probably look for a way to steal it..

For better or worse, pornography and sexual representation suffuse American culture. This first comprehensive guide to the literature includes the history of pornography in the United States and discusses pornography in a vast range of media. It presents information regarding bibliographies and reference tools concerning pornography and reviews of references devoted to the histories of sexuality and its representations and on theoretical works on erotica and pornography. A chronology of important dates in the history of American Pornography and a discussion of child pornography outline issues and events throughout its history. Dramatic, visual, and electronic media are gathered and arranged by topic. Pornography in all of its forms is explored in this three volume reference. Slade includes many avenues upon which pornography and sexual representation have had an impact including research and policy in the medical and social sciences, the law in the United States, and the economics of pornography. An invaluable tool for further research, this guide to the literature of pornography and sexual representation will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, gender and women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also interest those in the field of American history and mass media.

 o.k., one final'ting, after 'rize' i had to get another D. Lachapelle book..so of course i pick'd:

Heaven to Hell