Perverts

Over the last few years, Kay Gabriel sent a wide range of people a simple prompt—“send me your dreams.” Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem, asking two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s question—how do we turn what we have into what we need to get what we want? Synthesizing her own dreams with those of her friends, Kay Gabriel’s Perverts is an exercise in turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause.

You can read an extract online here.

'Kay Gabriel has written an anti-epic for our current moment, bringing contemporary queer community into being with lyric verve amid and in resistance to our ongoing catastrophe.' – John Keene

'Perverts is a gorgeous multicolored quilt of the subconscious of others, a pleasure, a riot... a gift.' – Hannah Black