I have read and enjoyed Arnberg’s Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia amidst preparing for and completing an international move from Scotland to California—during the COVID-19 pandemic, no less. As I was folding laundry in my post-international travel quarantine, I contemplated how to write this review. Folding my brightly colored underwear reminded me of my own undergraduate campus experiences, especially as some of those garments were bought online about twelve years ago during my first term of freshman year. This was a formative queer moment for me—finally having my own address, I could order underwear that made me feel sexy and queer without possible parental scrutiny. Like me, many queer people experience transitioning to college campuses as a formative time during the development of their sexual identity.

Queer Campus Climate highlights moments and experiences that inform the lives of queer students and academics. This book focuses on witnessing instead of...

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