Going Postal: More than “Yes” Or “No” (Brow Books, 2018)
Going Postal: More than “Yes” Or “No” (Brow Books, 2018) - Quinn Eades and Son Vivienne
Overview
This anthology is an anthem to resilience. As a response to the 2017 marriage equality vote, Going Postal: More than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ provides a personal perspective on a political moment. However, this book is more than a historical or theoretical retelling of events. Rather, the anthology explores conversations which occurred across family dinner tables, in the bathrooms of gay clubs, in whispers, in worry, and in the wordless languages of hesitance and fear. Despite addressing tough topics, a unified sense of celebration emerges from these poems, personal essays, social media extracts and artworks. Going Postal is a book which opens the door and invites the reader in. Then, it opens the windows too. Queer people have always been fighting for their survival. This collection of work documents the ways which communities are formed, both online and off. It articulates how LGBTQIA+ people continue to conquer and thrive, even when exhausted. This book does not limit itself to a discussion of romantic relationships and voting. Rather, Going Postal is a survival manual which encourages all readers to “mobilise for more than marriage”
