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Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst

Go the Way Your Blood Beats

On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

Michael Amherst

Watkins Media · Print & ebook · February 13, 2018

Winner of the 2019 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.

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An accessible, warm-eyed meditation on truth, bisexuality, and desire.
Genres
Bisexual Studies, LGBTQ+ Lives, Human Sexuality
Published
Watkins Media, February 13, 2018

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Winner of the 2019 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire. A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability.

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Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of desire, while at the same time the particularity of each individual act of desiring. Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force, and one that remakes us in the act itself.

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An accessible, warm-eyed meditation on truth, bisexuality, and desire.

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  • warm, accessible queer reflection
  • dip-in chapters with a thoughtful, intimate pulse

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  • reflection over argument
  • a book you can return to in small bursts

Where it sits

Bisexual Studies87%
LGBTQ+ Lives41%
Human Sexuality40%

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Publisher categories

  • LGBTQ+ Lives
  • Gay Studies
Authors
Michael Amherst
Publisher
Watkins Media
Published
February 13, 2018
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
LGBTQ+ Lives