Petrus Liu

“Despite these shifts, materialist queer theory has reached an apparent impasse and finds itself continuously absorbed into the liberal project of diversity management, where the concept of class is read as a static form of social advantage among others.”
― Petrus Liu, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

“The rise of commodified male same-sex sexual labor forms an important aspect of China’s “pink capitalism,” which has created a significant expansion of queer public spaces, including parks, bars, clubs, community centers, and, most important, social-networking mobile applications that make these encounters possible.”
― Petrus Liu, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus