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The Selfish-Enough Father: Gay Adoption and the Late-Capitalist Family

Alison Shonkwiler
GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 537–567.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-004
Published: 01 October 2008
...Alison Shonkwiler This essay analyzes the affect of entitlement in two memoirs by gay men about their experiences as adoptive parents. Although to lay claim to the role of the “selfish father” can be seen in these texts as a way to resist the presumptive privileges of motherhood, it is ultimately...
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The Influence of Barad’s “Transmaterialities” on Queer Theories and Methodologies

Stephanie Anne Shelton
GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 119–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7275614
Published: 01 January 2019
...Stephanie Anne Shelton This article considers the important interdisciplinary contributions of Karen Barad’s “Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” (2015). Barad adopted Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a metaphor to examine concepts of agency, empowerment...
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Queer Media Loci: Israel/Palestine

Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Alexandra Juhasz
GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 159–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1501702
Published: 01 January 2012
... and art houses. Israeli films have been thriving as part of “world cinema” by adopting a formula that Thomas Elsaesser has labeled “self-othering” or “self-exoticizing,” in which they expose local issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ultraorthodox Jewish communities, to the gaze...
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From Theater to Social Movement: The Dzi Croquettes's Queer and Contagious Performances in 1970s Brazil

André Prado Fernandes
GLQ (2025) 31 (1): 1–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11521534
Published: 01 January 2025
... began to adopt the Dzi way of being and “philosophy of life.” This article examines the Dzi movement based on the existing literature and primary data generated through archival research and oral history interviews. It begins with an overview of the state of affairs surrounding the Croquettes's...
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Witches, Terrorists, and the Biopolitics of Camp

Cynthia Barounis
GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 213–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4324789
Published: 01 June 2018
... camp’s status as a therapeutic gesture. While both texts may seem to glamorize madness-as-rebellion, staging a set of caricatured associations between feminism, hysteria, and witchcraft, I demonstrate the way each, more powerfully, requires their audience to adopt a stance of radical faith about women’s...
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Lifestyle: Contesting a Category of Dissident Sexuality in US Urban History

Ryan Patrick Murphy
GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 273–301.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8141844
Published: 01 April 2020
... in 1924. Even at the apex of suburbanization in the 1960s, many people refused to comply with the demand for suburban domesticity, staying in the city, joining countercultural groups, or adopting what came to be called alternative lifestyles. But in that act of dissent, urban planners, real estate...
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Hicks, Homos, and Home Cooking: Literary Recipes in Queer Appalachia

Alexander Menrisky
GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 413–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9738512
Published: 01 June 2022
...” gustatory traditions—namely, by adopting the recipe form. These poems, and the acts of foraging, preparing, and sharing food they represent, articulate queer communities gathered around tactile experiences of place. They also illustrate the promises and pitfalls of the recipe's representational potential...
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Settler-Colonial Elimination and the Dobbs Decision: Relationality, Indigenous Kin-making, and Queer Responsibilities

Jodi A. Byrd, Joseph M. Pierce
GLQ (2024) 30 (1): 81–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10938551
Published: 01 January 2024
... and the scale of what Native folks have experienced with forced sterilization. And then what adoption has meant, what the Sixties Scoop 7 has meant in Canada, what land loss has meant. I feel there is this irony, in this moment of waiting between Supreme Court decisions, in how the settler state...
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Dad and Daddy Assemblage: Resuturing the Nation through Transnational Surrogacy, Homosexuality, and Norwegian Exceptionalism

Michael Nebeling Petersen, Charlotte Kroløkke, Lene Myong
GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 83–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3672312
Published: 01 January 2017
... . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Eng David L. 2010 . The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Kinship . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Gondouin Johanna . 2012 . “Adoption, Surrogacy...
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Pit Bull Promises: Inhuman Intimacies and Queer Kinships in an Animal Shelter

Harlan Weaver
GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 343–363.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2843383
Published: 01 June 2015
... in place in Belfast to be “canine racism,” a metaphor echoed in one adopter’s analogy: “I think it’s awful what people say about ‘pit bulls’ or dogs that look like ‘pit bulls.’ It’s like racism, except against dogs.”10 However, while much of this “like race” thinking tends to appropriate rather than...
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JOSEPH MASSAD AND THE ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Sahar Amer
GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 649–653.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-010
Published: 01 October 2010
... to belong to the Western project of modernity. Massad argues that Arab intellectuals from every critical horizon (nationalist, Islamist, liberal, Marxist, psychoanalytic, secular, or femi- nist) have adopted without reflection Western views of modernity and progress, thereby internalizing a Western...
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BEYOND FLESH AND BLOOD

Raya Morag
GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 654–656.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-011
Published: 01 October 2010
... affirm the rights of Arabs to belong to the Western project of modernity. Massad argues that Arab intellectuals from every critical horizon (nationalist, Islamist, liberal, Marxist, psychoanalytic, secular, or femi- nist) have adopted without reflection Western views of modernity and progress...
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THE PROMISES OF VIOLENCE

Jin Haritaworn
GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 657–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-012
Published: 01 October 2010
... to belong to the Western project of modernity. Massad argues that Arab intellectuals from every critical horizon (nationalist, Islamist, liberal, Marxist, psychoanalytic, secular, or femi- nist) have adopted without reflection Western views of modernity and progress, thereby internalizing a Western...
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LOVE SANCTIFIED BY BLOOD

Aeyal Gross
GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 660–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2010-013
Published: 01 October 2010
... affirm the rights of Arabs to belong to the Western project of modernity. Massad argues that Arab intellectuals from every critical horizon (nationalist, Islamist, liberal, Marxist, psychoanalytic, secular, or femi- nist) have adopted without reflection Western views of modernity and progress...
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Realizing Rights in Manila: Brokers and the Mediation of Sexual Politics in the Philippines

Ryan Richard Thoreson
GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 529–563.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1600725
Published: 01 October 2012
...-­ scale phenomena has illuminated the structural conditions that shape the diffu- sion of sexuality into the Philippines, a focus on brokerage is likely to tell us far more about how LGBT politics are actually adopted and adapted from Manila to Mindanao...
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“WHAT GAY STUDIES TAUGHT THE COURT”: The Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. Texas

George Chauncey
GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 509–538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-3-509
Published: 01 June 2004
... they were suspected of being gay or lesbian.40 In addition, President Eisenhower’s executive order required defense con- tractors and other private corporations with federal contracts to ferret out and dis- charge their homosexual employees.41 “Other private industries adopted the poli- cies...
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Evidence for Queer Genes: An Interview with Richard Pillard

Edward Stein
GLQ (1993) 1 (1): 93–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1-1-93
Published: 01 November 1993
... a commentary. Edward Stein: Could you please describe your latest study involving twins and homosexuality? Richard Pillard: What we did was to put out advertisements for gay men who had a twin brother-either gay or straight-or an adopted brother, adopted into the family at an age less than...
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THE USES OF ABJECTION

David Kurnick
GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 329–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-141
Published: 01 April 2009
..., their relationships are outside the scope of family law” (113), even as she notes Massachusetts’s gay marriage statute three pages later. She writes, “Second- parent adoption is the primary way for lesbian co-parents to secure parenthood for the nonbiological mother” (69), and goes...
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TRANSPARENT FIGURES

Michael D. Snediker
GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 332–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-142
Published: 01 April 2009
..., their relationships are outside the scope of family law” (113), even as she notes Massachusetts’s gay marriage statute three pages later. She writes, “Second- parent adoption is the primary way for lesbian co-parents to secure parenthood for the nonbiological mother” (69), and goes...
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OF LESBIANS AND TECHNOSPERM

Laura Briggs
GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 335–337.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-143
Published: 01 April 2009
..., “Second- parent adoption is the primary way for lesbian co-parents to secure parenthood for the nonbiological mother” (69), and goes on to lament the unfairness of this, citing fees and the intrusiveness of home studies — without noting that this legal route...
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