{"product_id":"dead-boys-in-space-9781946303134","title":"Dead Boys in Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe question is not why my brother had to die. The question is how do I save him?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the AIDS crisis, space colonization, and earth-bound lesbianism, \u003cem\u003eDEAD BOYS IN SPACE\u003c\/em\u003e uses poetry, speculative fiction, sci-fi, and crip queer politics to ask: what if a generation of gay men didn't die of AIDS? What if their exile was actually escape? And what happened to the family they left behind?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold from the perspective of a sister mourning her brother-one she never knew-Sara Youngblood Gregory's startling debut, \u003cem\u003eDEAD BOYS IN SPACE\u003c\/em\u003e, is a testament to anger and love, sex and sickness, grief and family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Youngblood Gregory's DEAD BOYS IN SPACE is a book that understands the impossible math of queer time: how we inherit a crisis we did not survive, how we live in the after without ever being \"after\" it. It refuses the lie that PrEP has made us safe from history. Instead, it asks what it means to desire, to grieve, to build a body and a future in the long shadow of AIDS, in a family that still breathes and remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bryan Borland, editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDEAD BOYS IN SPACE\u003c\/em\u003e, Sara Youngblood Gregory deftly grapples with queer and feminist histories refracting them through personal experience and poetic experiments. It is a marvel to behold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Julie R. Enszer, author of \u003cem\u003ePinko Commie Dyke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Youngblood Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e YesYes Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946303134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoungblood Gregory, Sara:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sara Youngblood Gregory is an award-winning lesbian journalist, editor, and author. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Vice, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, them.us, and many others. Sara serves on the board of the lesbian literary and arts journal Sinister Wisdom, where she is currently editing the forthcoming Butch-Femme Renaissance issue. She was the News and Reporting Spring 2023 Fellow at TransLash Media, covering anti-trans legislation and community organizing in her home state of Florida. In 2023, Sara was the recipient of the Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. The same year, her speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books and will be published in May 2026.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sara Youngblood Gregory \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48483441049757,"sku":"9781946303134","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3b1cffe9-74ad-410d-b827-f6e0e36be7dd.jpg?v=1782287610","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/dead-boys-in-space-9781946303134","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}