Damage: Notes on a Queer Aesthetic

A personal, critical guide to seeing queer art’s wounds and possibilities

Damage asks how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isn’t there. Writer and critic Jonathan Alexander answers by pairing close looking with lived experience. The result is intimate and analytic at once, a book that stays with hard feelings while still making room for possibility.

Damage blends personal story with cultural criticism. Here, first-person stories adva...