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Theatrical Machines
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 23–42.
Published: 01 November 2015
... offers an alternative point of view. Benjamin’s focus on gesture offers concrete ways of reconceptualizing both identification and disidentification. Read together with his critique of legal violence, one can also see how the gesture displays and arrests the destructive power of the state. Benjamin thus...
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Notes on Caitlyn, or Genre Trouble: On the Continued Usefulness of Camp as Queer Method
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., demonstrating the continued need for camp spectatorship precisely in the attempt to banish it. © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2017 Caitlyn Jenner I Am Cait camp transgender drag disidentification reality television One night in 2015...
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“There is no Gomorrah”: Narrative Ethics in Feminist and Queer Theory
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differences (2001) 12 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2001
... theorizes
a queer politics of “disidentification” whose performing subjects demon-
strate “a desire to escape the claustrophobic confines of ‘community’”
(34). As these examples demonstrate, the two premises of self-referen...
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Sentences
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., at the outset of his essay, he correlates his “apparent betrayal [ . . . ] of the Laplanchian notion of ébranlement , of sexual shattering, by [his] more recent modulation of masochism into another, less dramatic, this time socially viable version of ego disidentification” ( “Broken” 414–15 ). He...
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Racist Intimacies; or, The Femme Alter Ego and Her Retribution
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 97–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
... : Duke UP , 2015 . Miller-Young Mireille . A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography . Durham : Duke UP , 2014 . Muñoz José Esteban . Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1999 . Muñoz José...
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“Everything I Wanted Not to Be”: The Specter of Africa in the Trans Travel Narrative
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 134–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to demystify and expurgate transition ( Prosser, “Exceptional” 91 ). By spatializing gender across the globe through accounts of geographical identification and disidentification, these tales displace “gendered indeterminacy” outside the domestic—to an elsewhere, to the Orient ( Aizura 3 ). Securing...
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Is Gender Studies Singular? Stories of Queer/Feminist Difference and Displacement
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 79–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
...) histories. And yet, I think de Lauretis’s risk is an important one, since her incorporation of racialized difference in the erotic play between protagonists in She Must Be Seeing Things seeks to theorize gender and sexual “scenes” of desire and disidentification as always already racialized. 23 For Ian...
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On the Name, Ideation, and Sexual Difference
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 62–78.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of analysis also apparently gave the possibility of disidentification (Judith Butler writes of this most forcefully in The Psychic Life of Power ), whether this manifested itself as melancholia (a response to a loss of something one never knew one had or even imagined to have) or disavowal (the understanding...
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Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification
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differences (1995) 7 (2): 111–126.
Published: 01 July 1995
... by birth, creation for procreation. This is the moment where the imbrication of gender identification with geopolitics and culture is most significant.3 On a symbolic level, it is through his disidentification with the bodies of his mother and sister, and adoption of a new family of fathers, that Rene...
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Extraordinary Homosexuals and the Fear of Being Ordinary
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 100–125.
Published: 01 July 1994
... from wayward women, but also from the qualities in herself that fail to fit the rigid forms of disidentification and cross-identification that she champions. The loss also shatters what come to seem like bourgeois pretenses. When Minotschka first reads Marta's fateful letter, she has her friend Boris...
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Piqued: Compounded Interest and the Intersubjective Scene
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2024
... as a blatant mirror scene in its first season. However, the series just as swiftly and assuredly begins to expand and tweak this visual grammar to grapple with mutual interest as well as disidentification, derailing tired gendered conventions along the way. As Tien Nguyen suggests on the popular culture...
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Here Are the Dogs: Poverty in Theory
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 169–177.
Published: 01 May 2010
...
weeks has passed.
In texts such as these, a disidentification with the poor is the
only enabling term for speaking about the poor, even by the poor them-
selves. The experience of poverty is unspeakable in some profound...
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Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination?
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 202–223.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics , idealized the social infrastructure of marginalized trans subjects for its transgression of gender and sexual norms, more recent work that digs into the operation of queer and trans kinship does not stress the gap between norm and subculture so...
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Copying Cosby: Pornmimicries of Race, Sexuality, and Gender
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 98–134.
Published: 01 May 2020
... different arousals and aversions but also disidentifications and spectatorial experiences ( Muñoz 25 ). 34 The communal familial environment in which many viewed The Cosby Show and continue to watch tv sitcoms in general diverges dramatically from the conditions in which many typically consume porn...
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“The Archaeology of Sound”: Derek Jarman's Blue and Queer Audiovisuality in the Time of aids
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 73–108.
Published: 01 September 2010
...: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition . Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 2003 . Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis: Minnesota up, 1999 . Nancy, Jean-Luc. Listening . Trans. Catherine Mandell. New York: Fordham up, 2007...
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Sex After the Black Normal
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
...: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2011 . Moten Fred . “ The Subprime and the Beautiful .” African Identities 11 . 2 ( 2013 ): 237 – 45 . Muñoz José Esteban . Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics...
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Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 32–70.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... ———. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1999 . Nealon, Christopher. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall . Durham: Duke up, 2001 . Nussbaum, Martha. “The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler.” New...
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Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure
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differences (1999) 11 (3): 107–136.
Published: 01 December 1999
... and failure. Critical
activity of this kind is born in disjuncture, if not disidentification: the
present time of writing is never the future the critic strains to think. What,
then, serves to guarantee knowledge as political progress? The nothing...
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Cruising the Jerusalem Light Rail
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 115–151.
Published: 01 September 2020
... theorists map their own worldly search for queer love, meaning, excitement, value, or kin onto their writing (Dean; Delany; Giorno; Halberstam; Muñoz, Disidentifications ; Manalansan; Newton; Nguyen; Sedgwick; Weston), creating chapters and books that “queer” or “cruise” that same heterosexist world...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2019
...) accountable to the history of its own privilege in the post-segregationist era. This is a version of white identity, tacitly multicultural, that was founded in disidentification if not political competition with overtly nationalist and supremacist formations of whiteness that have long practiced and preached...
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