Queer Theory

Queer no me da: Traduciendo fronteras sexuales y raciales en San Salvador y Washington DC

by Maria Amelia Viteri

¿ Cómo se piensa lo “queer” en América Latina?(Presentación Dossier)

by Maria Amelia Viteri

GenerAsians: transgressive sexuality and transformations of identity

by Wei Ming Dariotis

Fuzzy-edged Phenomena: (Dis)identity and desire in Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

by Andy Holloway

Published in Ignite Undergraduate Journal vol. 3 (2011).

We're Here! We're Queer? Activist Archives and Archival Activism

by Mathias Danbolt

published in Lambda Nordica, No. 3-4, 2010.

Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship

by Mary Bryson

Jackie Stacey and Mary Bryson

Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future... more Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future that it wills into being through the overcoming of adversity. This article traces the warped temporalities of cancer survivorship, exploring its queer dimensions by combining theoretical discussions with readings of two lesbian interventions that address normative visions and narrations of healthy/diseased bodies. Cancer survivorship in each case becomes a poetic narration of desire and disease through the queering of temporality. The authors argue that the extent to which cancer's time warp here belongs to queer temporality depends on whether the queerness refers only to the odd, the uncanny, the indeterminate and the undecidable. Or if, instead, cancer's time warp is queer in the sense that sexuality is already present in cancer's disturbance to temporality. In so far as queer carries with it the traces of sexualities deemed undesirable and perverse, then such connections move beyond an analogous and into an ontological register.

Gay intimacy - response piece (p.212)

by Kane Race

Published in 'Queer and Subversive Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginiaries', edited by K. Robinson and C. Davies, Bentham Science Publishers 2012.

Yamete, o-shiri ga iti! - a response to "Gay intimacy, yaoi and the ethics of care' by Aleardo Zanghellini. The... more Yamete, o-shiri ga iti! - a response to "Gay intimacy, yaoi and the ethics of care' by Aleardo Zanghellini. The response appears at the end of the paper (p212)

Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture

by Eric Stanley

Social Text, Issue 107: Summer 2011

This article examines forms of queer (non)sociality I call near life that are forced to exist, as nonexistence,... more This article examines forms of queer (non)sociality I call near life that are forced to exist, as nonexistence, outside the bounds of possessive humanism. Through a reading of the brutal murders and disarticulation of a number of trans/queer people, I suggest the legal category of "overkill" as a way of apprehending a queer ontology that stands in contrast to the security of an LGBT identity. That the murdered were working class and largely people of color and/or trans/gender nonconforming marks this interpersonal violence as a restaging of larger iterations of necropolitical state violence. As antiqueer violence is written in the social as an outlaw practice, I argue, via Frantz Fanon's reading of Hegel, that these forms of violence are not an aberration but are central to the reproduction of liberal democracy in the United States. Against redemption--violence is the province of the queer, but this does not signal the totality of negation nor the end of queer resistance.

The Transcendence of Transgression in Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures

by Scott Birdwise

Queerness and Fatness: Connections to Discourse

by Candice Buss

Presented at the National Women's Studies Association 2010 meeting in Denver, CO

Whether or not the medical concept of obesity is truly the dire
emergency that is touted by many public health... more Whether or not the medical concept of obesity is truly the dire
emergency that is touted by many public health officials, the fat female form is still viewed as something that is unfeminine, disgusting, slothful, and amoral. By virtue of a variety of media and social networking vehicles, the fat body (particularly the fat female body) is being reclaimed and celebrated. Books such as Fat!So? (Wann, 1998) and Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere (Harding & Kirby, 2009) have attempted to normalize and destigmatize the fat body and the fat experience. Along those lines, texts analyzing the biological and psychological impact of weight reduction strategies have declared that dieting contributes to illness and that a “Health At Every Size” approach is an appropriate feminist health ideal. Because of the biopsychosocial impact of fatness on individuals and society, there are correlations between fat discourse and queer theory. A comparison between the fat acceptance movement and the queer rights movement elicits a variety of reactions from various theoretical stances. The most poignant comparison is in regards to the biomedical factors involved in both identities. Members of both communities have attempted to use scientific studies to justify their identities, to attempt to legitimize their existence by claiming that their fatness (or queerness) is an immutable
piece of themselves, “the biological bedrock of contemporary visions of identify.” By searching for a “fat gene” or a “gay gene,” these people attempt to bypass discussions that would place blame. By placing their identity in the hands of genetics, they derail discussions of morality, choice, behavior, and environmental factors that also shape us.

“Just Getting Off”: The Inseparability of Ejaculation and Hegemonic Masculinity

by Michael Johnson Jr.

Here's A Little Lagniappe For You

by Michael Johnson Jr.

Sexual Identities and the Erotic within the examples of Contemporary Turkish and Iranian art”

by Leyla Ersen

Changing Aesthetics sexual identity through examples of contemporary Turkish art”

by Leyla Ersen

Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Men, Marriage and Conformity in Queer Theory and Gay Representation

by Berthold Schoene

in Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. by S. Horlacher (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012), pp. 209-18.

La memoria y el olvido en la política lingüística colonial

by Bruce Mannheim

„Masculinity and Politics in Njáls saga,“ Viator 38 (2007), 191–215.

by Ármann Jakobsson

Page proofs.

What was the true relationship between a Hittite man and his LU HA.LA-SU according to the Hittite Laws in Bronze Age Anatolia? Partner, shareholder, Associate, household live in man friend, an amibuity or just a much oversighted case of Same-Sex Marriage Bronzed style.

by Mark Shindel

"Osmanlı'yı Bugün Nasıl Tefsir Ediyoruz? Tarih ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Üzerine Düşünceler"

by Serkan Delice

published in "Cinsiyet Halleri: Türkiye'de Toplumsal Cinsiyetin Kesişim Sınırları", ed. Nil Mutluer (İstanbul: Varlık Yayınları, 2008), 72-87.

The Bonds of Choice

by S. Pearl Brilmyer

A review essay of David Eng's 'The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy'

Abstract:

In 1991 the anthropologist Kath Weston coined the phrase “families we choose” to describe queer... more Abstract:

In 1991 the anthropologist Kath Weston coined the phrase “families we choose” to describe queer forms of kinship fashioned as an alternative to the biological family. According to Weston, in gay and lesbian communities in 1980s San Francisco, “Kinship began to seem more like an effort and a choice than a permanent,unshakable bond or a birthright.” Now that American notions of marriage and child rearing are shot through with the rhetoric of choice and self-making, does the mantra “families we choose” retain any radical power? Who has been eclipsed in the portrait of the queer family as a contractual unit with state-sanctioned rights to “privacy” and “intimacy”? Such questions motivate David L. Eng’s 'Feeling of Kinship,' a critical perspective on the recent surge of appeals for marriage, custody, and inheritance rights from gays and lesbians in the United States.