Performance studies scholar Joshua Chambers-Letson and political philosopher Michael Hardt discuss the politics of love and the composition of social movements

Published on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.
Joshua Chambers-Letson (born 1980) is professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (2018) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (2013), and coeditor with Tavia Nyong'o of José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown (2020).
Michael Hardt (born 1960) teaches at Duke University, where he is codirector of the Social Movements Lab. Among the books he has coauthored with Antonio Negri are Empire (2000) and, most recently, Assembly (2017).