@joplaster.bsky.social
Author, Kids on the Street https://www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-street | Curator in Public Humanities & Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University https://www.josephplaster.com | Director, Tabb Center | Itinerant oral historian | posts my own
NYC! Please join me and historian Hugh Ryan as we discuss my book *Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin*. Info at www.bgsqd.com/event/kids-o... and www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-....
03.11.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus by Petrus Liu. Cover is of an abstract creature sitting with its legs folded under it, its left hand raised with a trail of items falling from its wrist. The creature is a collage resembling magazine cutouts. Its head is oddly shaped with large eyes and lips, and a large detached hand adorned with rings rests atop it.
Cover of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster. Cover is a faded photo of Rob Bennett and friends at a phone booth at Polk and Geary, San Francisco, CA. early 1980s. They are dressed in bright colors, including yellow, red, and purple.
Congratulations to Petrus Liu, whose book "The Specter of Materialism" has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award from the ASA Q/T Caucus and the @modernlanguage.bsky.social GLQ Caucus and to Joseph Plaster, whose book "Kids on the Street" received Honorable Mention! buff.ly/xG55JbY
09.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0As this newest anti-trans onslaught begins, trans life continues! I am defiantly happy to share my first book review! It is on the wonderfully trans & queer as hell 🕮 “Kids on the Street," by Joseph Plaster!
Check it out in the JHS:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
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For those in and around Palo Alto: I'll be giving a book talk on Thursday, February 13
03.02.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to announce that artist and writer Savannah G.M. Wood is our 2024/25 Public Humanities Fellow! blogs.library.jhu.edu/2024/12/sher...
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Cover of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster. Cover is a faded photo of Rob Bennett and friends at a phone booth at Polk and Geary, San Francisco, CA. early 1980s. They are dressed in bright colors, including yellow, red, and purple.
Congratulations to Joseph Plaster, whose book "Kids on the Street" has won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle!
www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-...
Until now, unhoused street kids have rarely occupied the center of queer urban history ... In Kids on The Street ... Joseph Plaster offers a theoretically sophisticated exploration of street kids’ spiritual practices and intimate lives, from the late nineteenth century to the 2010s."
07.05.2024 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@maryrizzo.bsky.social thank you! Absolutely love your "Who Speaks for Baltimore" essay and have taught the QED article on Queer Newark!
19.11.2024 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@ederummadum.bsky.social thank you! Still figuring this all out!
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