After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba Music and columnist Debra Soh debunks

and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that "is not only eminently reasonable and beautifully-written

because Serenitea makes her feel

Faced with a hostile political climate

and life-size sex dolls

his sense that he was not cut out for this

After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba Music and columnist Debra Soh debunksFocused on the intimate effects of large scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely