... sexual subjectivity rape culture bodily autonomy victim-blaming sexual shame ...

... This chapter uses the hit television series P-Valley to examine the sexual realities and vulnerabilities of Black girls. Taking care to resist hypersexualization, rape culture, victim-blaming, sexual shaming, and adultification, the chapter argues that, while historical fears around rape...

..., and Whitehead. This existential rootedness makes error an “objective illusion”–an embodied perspective–not a subjective delusion. The error consists in a misattribution of linear causality that relays into the logic of the general idea. The misattribution of cause leads to a focus on blame, and the logic...

... In this chapter, John Keene interviews Dancin’ the Down Low creator Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. McCune discusses his intellectual and artistic trajectory and asserts that his performance work is a form of activism. He contends, for example, that DL men being blamed for the rise of new cases of HIV...

... This chapter is a meditation on the meaning of being brown in America. It focuses on the unusual ease with which “dark-skinned males” were assumed to be the culprits behind the Boston Marathon bombings. The easy attribution of blame is a part of a long history of suspicion—and the essay takes up...

... about this “emergency” was the speed with which it occurred and the competition for visibility among aid organizations, as well as how quickly they assigned blame. The vast media attention and funding initially available pushed the humanitarian response into a maelstrom of visibility politics...