The book presents her black-and-white portraits of the predominantly teenage squatters who inhabited an abandoned Lower East Side glass factory, alongside her writing on the neighborhood’s gentrification and interviews with former residents. Departing from spectacle, Morton offers a stiller portrait of daily life at Glass House, rendering the squat not only viable but almost utopic in its offerings of space and community.

Joan E. Biren (JEB) is a lesbian photographer—a lesbian photographing lesbians in a lesbian kind of way. She has never been a photographer without first being a lesbian photographer, and she is a photographer because she is a lesbian. Making A Way: Lesbians Out Front is Biren’s second photobook, originally self-published in 1987 under her imprint Glad Hag Books and recently reissued by Anthology Editions.

From this catalogue, one quickly gleans just how vast the networks of queer Chicano/as were that both physically attended locales like Butch Gardens and were connected through mail art under the same moniker. While this marks the first major consideration of Sandoval, it certainly doesn’t feel that way—the extensively researched essays on his prolific practice paired with selected works by his peers makes for a world so full that reminders of its marginality are repeatedly surprising.

This collection markedly departs from conventions of its namesake, abandoning history as a systematic study to instead embrace it as a palimpsest. But what makes this compendium so enticing is that its authors actually seem entirely untethered by those traditions of dance writing rooted in ethnography that they functionally oppose.