Affect's Engine: Race and Queerness on Peak Tumblr

Affect’s Engine is an immersive ethnography of queer people of color on the social media platform Tumblr during its “peak,” from 2010 to 2015. Chronicling a formative time in social media history, Alexander Cho traces the affective patterns and practices of these users, showing how they forged deeply felt, often wordless connections while also cultivating a vibrant politics of resistance to white supremacy and heteronormativity. From “intersensuality” to “attunement” to “haptic wayfinding,”...