Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
1.1 What to Expect in this Book: A Very Brief Overview 13
1.2 A Few Words on Formal Decisions 16
1.3 How I Came to Write this Book 17
2.1 Why Comics? 21
2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources 40
2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S. 84
3.1 A "Chronicle of Lesbian Culture and History" 103
3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center 107
3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society 121
3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White 136
3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes' Armchair Anti-Racism 157
3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact 179
4.1 A Groundbreaking Work 183
4.2 A Window Seat to History? 185
4.3 'Gay Is the New Black:' A Dominant Discourse 189
4.4 Conservative Critiques 191
4.5 Common Intersectional Critiques 192
4.6 Further Intersectional Critiques 212
4.7 Conclusion: Stuck in a White Fantasy 249
5.1 "Decentering Whiteness" 253
5.2 Disidentifications with Homonationalist Discourses 255
5.3 Centering Resilience 287
5.4 By Way of Conclusion: Reading Sexile/Sexilio from a Place of (Relative) Privilege 296
6 CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF WHITE LGBTIQ SELF-REPRESENTATIONS 299
List of Works Cited 305