... is, as a result, not a critique of developmentalism itself, serving instead as an exercise in thinking through how development might be made to be more inclusive of different sexuality-­ and gender-­based constitu- encies, and suggesting that these inclusions might transform...

... context to describe “congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical”; instead the preferred term henceforth would be disorders of sex development (DSDs). The announcement met with significant controversy, which I here examine in terms of the historical...

... of displacing low-income and racialized people through deregulation of housing policy and unimpeded capitalist “development” of neighborhoods. Through the prism of corrective development, we can witness disposability politics as the convergence of hyper-carceralism, police killings, and social exclusion...

... A summary, standard view of American painting after 1945 might describe its development in close relation to a modernist discourse that emphasized pure visu- ality, so that the most highly valued work tended to be abstract. The central artist would be Jackson Pollock, while the chief exception would...

... pornographies, I develop the term black anality to describe how black pleasures are represented as peculiarly and particularly oriented toward the anus, and thus as peculiarly and particularly attached to anal ideologies . In doing so, I depart from black feminist scholarship, which has long examined...

... a community of gay intellectuals and authors intent on using their own mainstream success to make evident to all the creativity and value of contemporary gay life. By decade's end, this gay literary elite had developed ideas about gay cultural politics and the proper relationship between activism...

... in particular the relationship of academic feminism and intersex advocacy; proof of and reasons for success in intersex medical advocacy; and intersex identity politics, especially with regard to the nature-nurture debate and terminology ( intersex versus hermaphroditism versus disorders of sex development...

... studies project precisely through its roundabout technique — its refusing the straight path going directly to the point. As part of an ongoing development in embodiment studies to resituate the biological sciences as a resource for feminist and queer thinking, this essay further reflects on critical...

... associated with HIV/AIDS to a political aversion, or disgust, for the state of American politics at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Specifically, I develop a close reading of Tony Kushner's Angels in America that examines how the play's linguistic and performative engagement with alimentary processes...

... more forcefully in this world, thereby expanding their agency and capacity for flourishing in an impoverished city; second, despite queer theory's investment in secular modes of critique and analysis, the realm of the religious and the sacred provides many queers of color with a resource for developing...

...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...

... and instead developed notions of “good” and “bad” practices, positioning surrogacy in California as ethically regulated, while surrogacy in India was framed as fraught with ethical issues and exploitative. The article concludes that the two cases point to how specific formations of gay surrogacy work...

..., and the victories of feminism seem short-lived. The major developments of the past two decades that have transformed our understanding of medieval culture and society have been the growth of the history of sexuality as a (sub)discipline in its own right and the impact of queer theory on literary criticism...

... publications on the LGBT movement, I argue that within the LGBT movement there is a tension between queer radicalism and professionalism (which is often conflated with homonormativity and assimilation.) As the national LGBT movement grew, it inevitably developed professional, formal organizations. Although...

...Louis Esme Cruz; Qwo-Li Driskill In the formative years of the developing cultural relations between the Mi'kmaq of the Maritime Provinces of Canada and European Judeo-Christian missionaries, Father Chrestien Le Clercq systematized Mi'kmaq written language in order to convert the Original People...

...Susan Stryker This article is a personal testimonial to Gayle Rubin, delivered as an introduction to her keynote address at the 2009 “Rethinking Sex” conference convened in her honor at the University of Pennsylvania. It makes a few brief remarks on Rubin's contribution to the development...

... between these two trajectories, we argue, has informed queer theory from its inception. We develop the concept of queer bondsto describe relations radically in excess of humanist and neoliberal accounts of the individual, suggesting queer theory has always been a theory of queer bonds. If sex...

... is shaped by the complex and changing relation between her identity as a poet and her developing profession as a literary critic. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Figure 1. North...

... Asian diaspora in Gopinath's study. As sexuality travels in the global system, we witness its transformation into many other things: a discourse of development; a dialectic of Enlightenment; an emblem of democracy, progress, and liberation; a tale of racial, religious, or cultural barbarism; an index...

...Alexandra Juhasz In its time, at the Woman's Building, video played a central role in a unique feminist art education organized around the dangers of female representation and its associated pleasures of self-realization. Its collective video practices developed to acknowledge simultaneous points...