J. Lester Feder — The Queer Face of War: Portraits and Stories from Ukraine - with Chris Geidner

Award-winning photographer and journalist J. Lester Feder shows us The Queer Face of War in this first-ever visual and oral history of a queer community in war. This remarkable collection of stunning portraits and moving profiles captures the many ways queer people can be vulnerable in armed conflict—and the many ways they feel especially called to fight.In its siege of Ukraine, Russia forged a strategy that has since been adopted by authoritarian leaders around the world: attacking queer people to undermine fundamental principles of democracy and human rights. Vladimir Putin justified his war in part as a crusade to protect “traditional values” from the LGBTQ+ movement. Queer Ukrainians have been fighting back, demanding equal rights while defending their country. Queer Ukrainians have come out in unprecedented ways—as soldiers, humanitarian volunteers, refugees, and survivors of war crimes—speaking out and taking up arms to defend democracy.For LGBTQ+ people, visibility is power. The portraits and profiles in this book are rare because recent wars have been fought in places where it is unsafe to come out. At a moment when LGBTQ+ people are under attack worldwide, The Queer Face of War is a crucial record of queer history—and a powerful testament to resistance and resilience.J. Lester Feder is an American journalist of Ukrainian descent who has been reporting in and around Ukraine for more than a decade. Originally from the Washington area, he was the senior world correspondent covering LGBTQ+ rights for BuzzFeed News from 2013-2020, and he has been a senior fellow at the global LGBTQ+ human rights organization Outright International and the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic of the City University of New York. His honors include a Journalist of the Year Award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, a GLAAD Media Award, and a Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Award. His photos and writing have appeared in numerous other outlets including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.Feder is in conversation with Chris Geidner, an award-winning journalist who covers the Supreme Court, law and politics at Law Dork. His more than two decades in journalism includes widely recognized coverage of the courts, LGBTQ issues, the criminal legal system, and other complex legal and political questions. He previously worked as the Supreme Court correspondent and legal editor at BuzzFeed News and has written for The New York Times, MSNBC, Bolts, Grid, The Appeal, Metro Weekly and elsewhere.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9783987411991?ic_referral=CPMBZK_ZpumDh-kBZmMXTb6WVfm9TchdFPTe8DVkG2swMyOg-LDAGfWYSWmT9IAFfJf7TD1O7SZr8DhzxizX5oMs0t8-DvJtPVv6lhCQUwkcsp0YCjlMOnDABSyyFXdPqCfLBNc