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Introduction -- The feminist research landscape -- Intersectionality, feminist epistemology, and standpoint feminism theoretical frames -- Postmodern/poststructuralist theoretical frames to feminist research -- Feminist ethics -- Feminist methods for working directly with participants -- Feminist methods for studying nonliving data, organizations, and programs -- Writing and publishing feminist research -- Public scholarship and critical perspectives

This article considers the idea of activist affect, or when things—bodies, ideas, energies, even objects—come together, connected in what Gregg Seigworth and Melissa Gregg term "forces of encounter." Kathleen Stewart argues that affect offers us broad-ranging ways of exploring "what happens to people, how force hits bodies, how sensibilities circulate and become … collective." Activist affect can range from intensities on the skin to the air of a gathering march to the stillness in a crowd when someone counts down the time it takes to kill 17 and injure 15 young people in a school shooting spree. Thinking of activism through the lens of queer and affect theory allows us to reimagine how both collaborative autoethnography and social "movements" happen as well as what they look like and what they can do.

"The Queer Life of Things takes up new materialism and posthumanism as a queer intervention into the devaluing and degradation of some human, animal, and plant lives and ways of living. Through a sustained and vibrant encounter with things that matter, this book offers readers an effective and more-than-human mode of activism for the 21st century"--