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Queer Dwelling in the Damage: In Memoriam for Kevin Floyd by Rosemary Hennessy

Rosemary Hennessy utilizes Kevin Floyd’s numerous publications as a roadmap of not only Floyd’s own intellectual journey but that of queer Marxism as a field of study.

Remembering Kevin Floyd: Reflections on our Continuing Debt to his Work and Thought by Neil Larsen

Neil Larsen describes Kevin Floyd’s contributions to the Marxist Literary Group, as well as Marxism as a field.

Kevin Floyd’s Foundational Queer Marxism: A Tribute by Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker outlines how Kevin Floyd paved a new road for queer Marxism that more actively engages with queer theory.

Poetry, Sexuality, Totality: On Kevin Floyd and Steve Benson by David Pritchard

Drawing on the central claims of Kevin Floyd’s The Reification of Desire, David Pritchard analyzes the avant garde poetics of the Language Poets, in particular Steve Benson’s long poem “Blue Books.”

“Women’s Work” and the Reproduction of Labor: Revisiting Seminal Marxist Feminist Texts to Reconstitute a Subject for Feminist Identity by Allie Brooks

In the same vein as Kevin Floyd’s synthesis of queer theory with Marxism, Allie Brooks advocates for a type of Marxist feminism that avoids not only class reductionism but gender reductionism as well.

Kevin Floyd’s The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Jen Hedler Phillis

Jen Hedler Phillis reviews of Kevin Floyd’s The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism. This review was originally published in Mediations 24.2 (Spring 2009).

Reading Life and Death by Kevin Floyd

Through a reading of Samuel Delany’s Plagues and Carnivals, Kevin Floyd shows how the construction and interpretation of “truth” can, quite literally, be a matter of life and death. This article was originally published in Mediations 28.2 (Spring 2015).

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