From the art of Andy Warhol to voguing of Kevin Aviance, from the poetry of Frank O’Hara and Elizabeth Bishop to the photography of Kevin McCarthy, Cruising Utopia crosses history and the stories of artists and writers that have left a mark in the queer culture: the result is a manifest, a love letter to the past and the future, a call to reactivate the sparkles of queer worlds of the present and the political imaginary.
José Esteban Muñoz (L’Havana, 1967 – New York, 2013) was a scholar of queerness theory, cultural studies and visual culture, a teacher and director of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Within his works: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999) e The Sense of Brown (2020-posthumous).
Nina Ferrante is a scholar and transfemminist activist. Post-doc at Liège and teacher at IUAV, she moves in through queerness spaces between ecological politics and performance.
Samuele Grassi is a Lecturer part-time in Italian Studies at Monash University Prato Centre and teacher at Florence University. He takes care of queer studies about gender and sexuality, education to citizenship, performance and literary and cultural studies in the contemporary English world.