Gay ince

David K. By highlighting the contradictions between the fantasy and the failure of non-profits, and of the contradiction inherent in the marketized discourse of compassion and community, Beam emphasizes resistance to these logics which are always in negotiation. This book raises much needed questions about the nonprofit form as a space of neoliberal governance that is a hybrid statecraft and a political and affective economy.

Robin Ince

What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations.

Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics

Though Beam charts out the continuance of the nonprofit form in that chapter, I wondered what it was like methodologically to transition from an ethnographic voice to an autoethnographic one, and think through his own palpable sadness, frustration, and dismay. What did it mean for Beam to navigate addressing the organizations in the first four chapters versus his own affective participation, engagement, and even investment in the TYSN space?

GEOFFREY GAY INC

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