... and race, from queer aesthetic servi- tude to metrosexual life and work pressures, from heterosexual abjection to the straight tendency to provide the queerest moments. WHY CAN’T JOHNNY SHAVE? Sasha Torres Why can’t straight guys shave? In episode after episode of Queer Eye for the Straight...

.... 2016. “In Praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club.” Washington Post, June 13. DOI 10.1215/10642684-4254441 I JUST CAN’T EVEN Shaka McGlotten I just can’t even. I just can’t even handle it. I feel like we are living in a nightmare. I watch...

... can’t believe her ears. What bL strange compulsion,” she wonders, subtends Walker’s “astounding state- ment that from 1849 to 1855, Liszt succumbed to a Chopin mania, a spooky, ‘posthumous inspiration These, after all, “were the years when Liszt was devoting himself to the orchestra...

... that someone would only (lo one thing. I find it kery Iiizarrc that someone would sing in a musical-altliough I shouldn’t say that Iwcause that’s the one thing I can’t do, I can’t sing and I can’t dance-I find it very strange that someone should perform in a show without knowing what...

...Eli Clare Duke University Press 2003 The GLQ Archive GAWKING, GAPING, STARING Eli Clare Gawking, gaping, staring: I can’t say when it first happened. When first a pair of eyes caught me, held me in their vise grip, tore skin from muscle, muscle from bone. Those eyes always shouted...

... - halberstam/. Torres, Justin. 2016. “In Praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club.” Washington Post, June 13. DOI 10.1215/10642684-4254441 I JUST CAN’T EVEN Shaka McGlotten I just can’t even. I just can’t even handle it. I feel like we...

... Extract from “Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific” Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Every day is Ladies’ Day at Richmond. We love them and can’t do without them. Now they do a big part of the job. Who are they? Our women. —Headline from Fore ’N’ Aft, Kaiser Shipyards Safety Magazine, June...

... is under consideration. We can’t tell how fast it is growing. It is her2neu positive and estrogen receptor negative. These are cause for concern. Do I not want to remember? Had I not felt a lump in the fall? Didn’t you notice anything? asked the gynecologist. Would a few months have made any dif...

... that affected me. In our working-class apartment building all the kids would just run around together, and everyone’s doors were open—I’d just go around and visit all the apartment neighbors, and it was so much about connection. I can’t say that “Korea...

... need your prayers and thoughts to get more speci c and start asking why how he overstayed his visa, leaving the violence in his country for this? some families can’t get here mothers and fathers seeking humanitarian permissions who just want to mourn their babies erasure revictimizes you...

... this (California) for manners & human forms, evidently, too; I am curious to see more of it, & I shall have more to tell you; but into this I can’t now go. I remain in these parts (I mean hereabouts,) for another month exactly, & then return to the East...

... My transmasculinity confuses the guards when it comes time to be searched before finally entering the visiting room. Sometimes they call me “young man,” and yet I'm also asked to shake and snap the bottom of my bra (I don't wear one), and when I can't produce the characteristic snap of an elastic...

... communities, but it’s also a call to queer trans politics. JC: Why can’t it be lesbian, too? Having lived this incredible moment in the late eighties/early nineties when lesbians and gays got on the dance floors and into the streets together and called it queer, I am not ready for any “Queer Eye...

... with Mi’kmaq history, language, and cultural practices. As a rheto­ ric scholar by training, I can’t help but notice the way Cruz represents Mi’kmaq modes of transmitting Two-Spirit/queer memory and identity in these drawings: the wampum belts bordering the pages, the use...

... get split, broken apart by time, by others, by any attempt at its telling, or perhaps it is in the telling that there is some failure of reclamation, as in the fact that I can’t quite render any particular start of the situation, or recognizable order, let alone gauge its impact through what I...

..., and we surely led very different lives. I can’t say that she and I ever came to be close. Yet I believe I remember every conversation we had. One started as a discus- sion of Merrill’s poetry and then meandered. It took place probably a few years after she wrote the essay now...

... for pregnancy, it's already been criminalized? You can't actually get an abortion in prison or jail, whether it's legal or not in that state, more often than not. And then you're coming up with solutions that leave out the vast numbers of Black women and people with capacity for pregnancy who are on probation...

... chunk, too. In fact, this must be true because if you have identical twins who are discordant [one gay and one not], they have the same genes so it can’t be that [which determines their sexual orientation], and they have the same parents and the same household, so it can’t be that either...

.... [I ask Sinnette to tell me what he thinks keeps people coming to the Chatroom.] It’s the experience. It’s the therapeutic value of the Chatroom. You can’t deny that talking and venting about things helps. It’s undeni- able. Even persons who don’t like to talk come to Chatrooms...

... . 2016 . “ Black Gay (Raw) Sex .” In No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies , edited by Johnson E. Patrick , 239 – 61 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Bowleg Lisa . 2013 . “ ‘Once You’ve Blended the Cake, You Can’t Take the Parts Back to the Main Ingredients...