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Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual cycle of transpoetic stories that blend memory and movement in an innovative choreo-text of rage, sweetness and sorrow.
A dance hall where the dead and the living meet, the tales take us from the dungeons of 1990s San Francisco to the goldsmith’s forges of the earliest cities, tracing a transgenderational lineage of queer carnality. Not a memoir, but a collective memory, Julian Carter invites us to join artists and AIDS activists, sailors and skeletons, to fulfill the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds.
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Julian Carter has an eye for exquisite detail: a step, a glance, a footprint on a page—all enchained in lyric vignettes where queer and trans generations invite us to dance across the folds of time.
-Susan Stryker, award-winning filmmaker (Screaming Queens) and author of “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix,” Trans History and many other world-building texts.
Sexy and smart. Equal parts delicate and dynamic, Carter activates touch as mode of trans worldmaking. This book enacts an inter-generational praxis of intimacy and care, inviting us to form new erotic connections with our transcestors in the service of a world to come.
-Juana María Rodríguez, author of Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
In this all-genre (maybe anti-genre) book, Carter dances us along the dreamlike paths of life and communal myth through non-binary leather parties, neolithic burial grounds, long-demolished roadhouses, the feminist sex wars, and some shallows where we might catch frogs.
-Zach Ozma, co-editor of We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (winner of the Lambda Literary Award and others)
Julian Carter merges memories and reflections, interwoven pasts and archival imaginings, in an intimate history of queer and trans desire he draws by hand. This is a book I trust to etch a complex, collective remembrance on the page.
-Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of After Sappho (long-listed for the Booker Prize)