Contents

Introductions. Methods/Mess

Queer Methods: Four Provocations for an Emerging Field

Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim

“How the Other Half Thinks”: An Introduction to the Volume

Heather Love

Part I. Subjecting/Objecting

1. Put a Little Honey in My Sweet Tea: Oral History as Quare Performance

E. Patrick Johnson

2. The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research: A Queer Feminist Understanding

Jessica Fields

3. Queer Survey Research and the Ontological Dimensions of Heterosexism

Patrick R. Grzanka

4. Methodological Problems and Possibilities in Gayborhood Studies

Amin Ghaziani

Part II. Narrating/Measuring

5. To Count or Not to Count: Queering Measurement and the Transgender Community

Petra L. Doan

6. Counternarratives: A Black Queer Reader

Matt Brim

7. Measurement, Interrupted: Queer Possibilities for Social Scientific Methods

Zandria F. Robinson and Marcus Anthony Hunter

Part III. Listening/Creating

8. The Intersection of Queer Theory and Empirical Methods: Visions for the Center for LGBTQ Studies and Queer Studies

David P. Rivera and Kevin L. Nadal

9. The Map Where We Meet and Other Queer-Quare Stories: An Essay-as-Performance Set to a Double-Bass Score

Rommi Smith, with music composition by Jenni Molloy

10. Discursive Hustling and Queer of Color Interviewing

Steven W. Thrasher

11. Like Inciting a Riot: Queering Open Education with EqualityArchive.com

Shelly Eversley and Laurie Hurson

Part IV. Historicizing/Resisting

12. Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It

Jane Ward

13. Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory’s Affective Histories

Kadji Amin

14. Making Lesbian History Possible: A Proposal

Sarah Schulman

About the Editors

About the Contributors