Joseph Plaster
@joplaster.bsky.social
Author, Kids on the Street https://www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-street | Curator in Public Humanities & Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University https://www.josephplaster.com | Director, Tabb Center | Itinerant oral historian | posts my own
NYC! Please join me and historian Hugh Ryan as we discuss my book *Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin*. Info at www.bgsqd.com/event/kids-o... and www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-....
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NYC! Please join me and historian Hugh Ryan as we discuss my book *Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin*. Info at www.bgsqd.com/event/kids-o... and www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-....
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Congratulations to Petrus Liu, whose book "The Specter of Materialism" has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award from the ASA Q/T Caucus and the @modernlanguage.bsky.social GLQ Caucus and to Joseph Plaster, whose book "Kids on the Street" received Honorable Mention! buff.ly/xG55JbY
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Congratulations to Petrus Liu, whose book "The Specter of Materialism" has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award from the ASA Q/T Caucus and the @modernlanguage.bsky.social GLQ Caucus and to Joseph Plaster, whose book "Kids on the Street" received Honorable Mention! buff.ly/xG55JbY
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As this newest anti-trans onslaught begins, trans life continues! I am defiantly happy to share my first book review! It is on the wonderfully trans & queer as hell 🕮 “Kids on the Street," by Joseph Plaster!
Check it out in the JHS:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
#histsex #queerhist
Check it out in the JHS:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
#histsex #queerhist
Project MUSE - <i>Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin</i> by Joseph Plaster (review)
muse.jhu.edu
January 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As this newest anti-trans onslaught begins, trans life continues! I am defiantly happy to share my first book review! It is on the wonderfully trans & queer as hell 🕮 “Kids on the Street," by Joseph Plaster!
Check it out in the JHS:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
#histsex #queerhist
Check it out in the JHS:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
#histsex #queerhist
For those in and around Palo Alto: I'll be giving a book talk on Thursday, February 13
February 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For those in and around Palo Alto: I'll be giving a book talk on Thursday, February 13
Delighted to announce that artist and writer Savannah G.M. Wood is our 2024/25 Public Humanities Fellow! blogs.library.jhu.edu/2024/12/sher...
December 13, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Delighted to announce that artist and writer Savannah G.M. Wood is our 2024/25 Public Humanities Fellow! blogs.library.jhu.edu/2024/12/sher...
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Congratulations to Joseph Plaster, whose book "Kids on the Street" has won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle!
www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-...
www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-...
April 18, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Congratulations to Joseph Plaster, whose book "Kids on the Street" has won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle!
www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-...
www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-...
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Until now, unhoused street kids have rarely occupied the center of queer urban history ... In Kids on The Street ... Joseph Plaster offers a theoretically sophisticated exploration of street kids’ spiritual practices and intimate lives, from the late nineteenth century to the 2010s."
Beyond the “Doom-Loop”—A Review of “Kids on The Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin”
Plaster, Joseph. Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Alex Melody Burnett At the height of the coronavirus...
themetropole.blog
May 7, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Until now, unhoused street kids have rarely occupied the center of queer urban history ... In Kids on The Street ... Joseph Plaster offers a theoretically sophisticated exploration of street kids’ spiritual practices and intimate lives, from the late nineteenth century to the 2010s."