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Bookcover Civic Intimacies

Van Doorn describes how members of these systematically marginalized communities improvise on citizenship not just to survive but also to thrive, despite the proliferation of violence and insecurity in their lives. By reimagining citizenship as the everyday reparative work of building support structures, Civic Intimacies highlights the extent to which sex, kinship, memory, religious faith, and sexual health are rooted in collective practices that are deeply political. These systems sustain the lives of Black queer Baltimoreans who find themselves stuck in a city that they cannot give up on—even though in many ways it has given up on them.