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...Mel Y. Chen This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the affectivity and relationality—indeed the bonds—of queerness as it is presently theorized. Approaching toxicity in three different modes, I first consider how vulnerability, safety, immunity, threat...

...Dana Luciano; Mel Y. Chen © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Figure 1. Laura Aguilar, Grounded #114, 2006, digital. Courtesy of Laura Aguilar and the UCLA Chicano...

...Dana Luciano; Mel Y. Chen “Queer Inhumanisms” from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist , and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands...

...V Varun Chaudhry The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen's deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book's methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses...

..., Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect . Chen Mel Y. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . 298 pp. Sex and Disability . McRuer Robert and Mollow Anna , eds. Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . 417 pp. Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity...

... female homoeroticism. The stories were accompa- nied by an article by Chen Xiaoming, critic of Chinese avant-garde literature and postmodernism. Chen begins by admiring Lin’s exotic personal aura and her audacity in probing forbidden subject matter. Slipping effortlessly from the issue of geographic...

.... Mel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012, Alan Bray Memorial Award) explores questions...

...), Precarious Life (2004), and most recently, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009). Mel Y. Chen is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, with research interests in feminist, critical race and queer theory, environmental and animal studies...

... and Gender Insubordination .” In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader , edited by Abelove Henry , Barale Michèle Aina , and Halperin David M. , 307 – 20 . New York : Routledge . Butler Judith . 2004 . Undoing Gender . New York : Routledge . Chen Mel Y. 2012...

... Dana Chen Mel Y. . 2015 . “Has the Queer Ever Been Human?” GLQ 21 , nos. 2–3 : 183 – 207 . Mancuso Stefano Viola Alessandra . 2015 . Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence . Translated by Benham Joan . Washington, DC : Island...

... to the lithosphere where plants grow. These toxicities —  often concentrated in poor and minority communities — contribute to childhood asthma, lung disease, and the spread of various cancers. In an account of living with toxic sensitivity to airborne heavy metals, Mel Chen...

... is not to say the silkworm's exemplary trans identity. Here I am following the work of many other scholars operating at the interface of trans and animal studies. Mel Y. Chen ( 2012 : 135) has written of the “ prefixial trans- ” as “a way to explore that complexity of gender definition that lies between human...

... modes of relations that are sexual, erotic, and affective but also extractive and life denying. Disability scholar Mel Chen reminds us of the ongoing planetary catastrophe that is settler colonialism in one of the book's final chapters, “The Deaths of Reproduction.” Paying particular attention...

... (Three Monologues and a Hairpiece) .” Critical Inquiry 40 : 305 – 40 . Chen Mel . 2012 . Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chen Mel Luciano Dana 2015 . “ Introduction: Has the Queer Ever Been Human? ” GLQ...

... of fish and plankton. This porous interactivity is a promising model for crafted and becoming modes of transgender reproduction. In a collaborative politics of risk and vulnerability, the devaluing of human and inanimate bodies share an economy; as Mel Chen writes...

... trans digital studies from Jian Neo Chen ( 2019 ); Nicole Erin Morse ( 2022 ); and Z Nicolazzo, Alden C. Jones, and Sy Simms ( 2022 ). Underscoring the intersectional critiques of algorithms, cárdenas appeals for scholars not to cede “the power of algorithms to oppressive forces,” arguing...

... . “ Nothing Common about ‘The Commons’: Settler Colonialism and the Indigenous Politics of Land Dispossession .” Paper presented at Brown University , October 9 . Luciano Dana Chen Mel Y. , eds. 2015 . Introduction to “ Queer Inhumanisms ,” special issue , GLQ 21 , no. 2 : 182 – 207...

... on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism. Along with Tina M. Chen he is the editor of Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production (2007). Erin Calhoun Davis is an assistant professor at Cornell College where she teaches in sociology and women’s studies. Her areas of specialization...