Neotenica

By Joon Oluchi Lee

*Author is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design.
*Author of two works of fiction, 94 (Publication Studio, 2015) and Lace Sick Bag (Publication Studio, 2013).
*Author of various essays on queer theory, feminism, and fiction writing, including: “Like a Statuette” (The Body in Language, 2019), “Choreography for the Bospherus Hug” (Hysteria, 2015), “The Blotting Papers” (Women & Performance, 2011), “Gay Rage” (Social Text Periscope, 2010), and “The Joy of the Castrated Boy” (Social Text, 2005).
*From 2008 to 2013, Joon cultivated an online presence, blogging about life as a femme feminist gay male at lipstickeater.blogspot.com.
*Of interest to women & LGBTQ+ people of color and those who love them.
*Author resists choosing between the gay male identity & transgender womanhood, accepting himself as femme.
*Neotenica was written between 2015 and 2018, beginning as the story of the author’s mother, but had quickly morphed into a more fantastical shape, in which “mother” became an amalgam of her, the author, and the woman who’s always lived within him.
*Author earned his BA in English at the University of Virginia in 1997; Ph.D in English at the University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Release date: Jun 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781643620558

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