"... Range[s] from children's animation to avant-garde performance and queer art to think about ways of being and knowing that stand outside of conventional understandings of success"--Introd.

"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Introduction : low theory -- Animating revolt and revolting animation -- Dude, where's my phallus? forgetting, losing, looping -- The queer art of failure -- Shadow feminisms : queer negativity and radical passivity -- "The killer in me is the killer in you" : homosexuality and fascism -- Animating failure: ending, fleeing, surviving.