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... George Povinelli Elizabeth A. . 1999 . “Thinking Sexually and Transnationally: An Introduction.” GLQ 5 , no. 4 : 439 – 49 . Cumings Bruce . 1997 . “Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies during and after the Cold War.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars...

... . ON BEING AREA-­STUDIED A Litany of Complaint Keguro Macharia I am an Africa-­based queer scholar. I am an Africa-­based scholar who has accepted an invitation to participate in a conversation that will live behind a paywall and, thus, will be inaccessible to many in Africa. I am an Africa-­based...

...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan This essay revisits “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies” (2016), a special issue coedited by Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel. It considers both the overall aims of the issue, including that of reading the politics of queer and area studies as “coincident...

...Kareem Khubchandani Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Reference Gopinath Gayatri . 2005 . Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . 206 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES QUEERING AREA...

... theory and practice useful to both area studies and indigenous studies by exploring the discussion generated from the screening of Kumu Hina , a documentary about a Hawaiian Māhū in the Beijing Queer Film Festival and a brief history of ku'er (queer) media culture and discourse in China. Thinking beyond...

... studies with diaspora studies, area studies, and postcolonial theory. These books help forge the burgeoning field of “queer diasporas,” which works against the genealogical and heteronormative reproductive logic of conventional diaspora studies. At the same time, the field of queer diasporas also...

... and queer communities in Chicago and internationally, their strategies for sustainability, and their enduring contributions. I argue that through small and large accomplishments, both LLENA and Amigas Latinas advance significant cultural and political change in the Chicago area. The collective effort...

...-century Milwaukee, this essay adds to the emergent scholarship within queer studies that has challenged the previously dominant notion of what Judith Halberstam has termed metronormativity , wherein large metropolitan areas are assumed to provide queer subjects with opportunities that rural spaces...

... of analytical agendas: casting light on the importance of language and its discursive reach in popular understandings of same-sex desire, overturning the problem of long-standing heteronormative biases in area studies, grappling with the ghost of Western concepts of gender and sexuality, and jostling...

...Gregory Mitchell In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian government engaged in a militarized campaign to clean up favelas, blighted areas, and red-light districts so that it could “develop” them. Based on ethnographic work in Rio de Janeiro, London, and Cape Town...

...Kale Bantigue Fajardo Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Filipino seamen in metro Manila (Philippines), the San Francisco Bay Area (California), and the Pacific Ocean, this essay examines how heterogeneous Filipino masculinities (heterosexual and transgender tomboy) are cocreated...

... based in San Francisco, and its work confronting the hypergentrification of the Bay Area propelled by the tech industry. While positive attachments and shared identification are argued to be necessary for a liberatory politics, in contrast Gay Shame builds an affective commons through negative...

..., were classified as “Coloured” under apartheid and lived in District Six, Cape Town, when it was declared “Whites Only” in 1966, after which approximately 60,000 residents were forcibly removed as the area was almost completely bulldozed. This collection of photographs has become somewhat embedded...

... between queer theory and area studies, in our case the study of the Middle East as transnational. We come to this question in thinking through disciplinary and archival locations of knowledge production, and the political, economic, and social cartographies that animate both queer theory...

... and a star. I stopped to listen. Following a spirited rendition of “Ode to a Gym Teacher,” a comedic ballad about a young girl’s crush on her physical education instructor, the singer paused to comment on the difficulties of “growing up gay” in a rural area. Her advice to onlookers who had friends...

... Alice Dreger on a book that juxtaposes medical narratives of hermaphrodites with their personal narratives. Patricia Elliot teaches courses in women’s studies and sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She has published in the areas of feminist theory and ped- agogy, psychoanalytic...

... The ground zero of gender and sexuality studies has not dramatically shifted, its “area” unsurmised. Or, it has at least not been sufficiently undermined, just rela- tivized with the qualifying brackets of West, Anglo-­European, US, or something of the like. And then the work that those concepts are set...

...´, and Udruga LORI 2017). However, less is known about the experiences of those living in rural areas due to obstacles that make research access to LGBTI individuals in small communities more difficult. Most cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation that have been taken to court and have been covered...

... of important events, remains underdeveloped, except perhaps in the area of historical preservation. This essay explores ways that trial dossiers can be assessed for applied scholarship and contemporary activism. By returning to the scene of these so-called crimes, and to the repressive activities of police...

.... These characteristics provided the perfect environ- ment for the 2009 World Out Games (the largest gay-­themed international sports and cultural event held in the area), which consequently cost 4.5 million dollars to host. The magazine also focused on John Goss, the inventor of Utopia-­Asia (www. utopia-­asia.com...