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GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 146–147.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Roderick A. Ferguson Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race . Abdur-Rahman Aliyyah I. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xi + 200 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 146 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 346–348.
Published: 01 April 2020
... markers in order to understand the expansive eroticism in Carnival (sight/visual), Calypso (sound/vibration), and HIV/AIDS activism (touch/ feel) (15). The history and erotic traditions of Carnival (chap. 1) serve as the nec- essary context for analyzing the white, gay Carnival designer Minshall (chap...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 145–147.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and Iona Peazant, as a form of “erotic chaos.” In the Audre Lordean sense—inclusive of, but not limited to the realm of the sexual—the erotic is a transcendent gathering space, in which one's coming into relation with “the productive tension of difference” disorients and unmoors the self (145). Lastchild's...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (2-3): 277–295.
Published: 01 June 2012
... in the Caribbean region run by and for self-identified gay men—to see how these men have used the erotic to survive. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Chatting Back an Epidemic Caribbean Gay Men, HIV/AIDS, and the Uses of Erotic Subjectivity Lyndon K. Gill In the popular imagination...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 352–354.
Published: 01 April 2020
... for young Samburu men with a long history of eroticization could be seen as an ethnosexuality of sorts, Meiu reframes that question about the geopolitical and historical determinations of sex as one of ethno- erotic econo- mies, by showing how the more recent participation of these young men in sex...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 497–510.
Published: 01 October 2011
... Sedgwick's continuing interest as both a critic and a poet in the erotics of genre, especially as it reappears in A Dialogue on Love . © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 “Surprising Recognition” Genre, Poetic Form, and Erotics from Sedgwick’s “1001 Seances” to A Dialogue on Love Kathryn R...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (2): 273–296.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Bobby Benedicto Drawing on the writings of Georges Bataille and Leo Bersani, this essay reexamines the long-held association of homosexuality with a radical erotics of death from the vantage of queer of color critique. While notions of suicidal ecstasy, self-shattering, and masochistic jouissance...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (2): 205–233.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Adrienne Adams Gregory D. Victorianne's Buti Voxx is a window into the diffuse erotic networks across the African diaspora who forged international information networks between the 1980s and early 2000s. The Afro‐erotic zine occasions an opportunity to tease out what the author calls ephemera fever...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 267–289.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 453–479.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of erotic subjectivity in the modern period. That sameness — an erotics of normative masculinity — is left uninterrogated as an important historical formation in and of itself and also as a means by which the hetero-homo binary was constructed. Instead, the histories shift their attention from sexual-gender...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 407–437.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Zeb Tortorici This essay focuses on how viscerality refracts as an issue for archival studies of early modern sexuality (and beyond). Through a microhistorical examination of textual representations of necrophilia, fellatio, masturbation, and erotic religious visions from colonial Mexican...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 January 2019
... publication, the questions raised in this special issue are still not only pertinent but deeply necessary, and allow for an angle of approach that attends to the unbearable relations, provocative cross-identifications, and erotic attachments that originally motivated early queer theoretical thinkers...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 467–480.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., and will. The books discussed, moreover, stay attuned to fecund forms of erotic world-making and other mere and provisional pleasures produced in the slippery zones where shame and intimacy intersect. Together, Extravagant Abjection, Sensational Flesh , and A View from the Bottom remind us of the generative force...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 55–86.
Published: 01 January 2022
... they address have stopped caring. The article describes perverse homogenization processes as “homotribalism,” arguing that they provide an erotic basis for ethnonationalism. It then provides a detailed reading of Call Me by Your Name (2017), claiming that its striking contemporary relevance during the first...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 291–314.
Published: 01 June 2018
... romance is portrayed in and against parent-child bonds, while the employment of a mother-daughter erotic reinscribes racial and gender norms. In contrast to Highsmith’s pulp novel, which eventually satirizes the mother-daughter bond in its camp machinations, Haynes’s lyric period film inspires feelings...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (4): 485–503.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of color must reshape and repurpose both public and commercial space to collectively affirm their erotic desires and care for each other through “communal intimacies,” the spatial‐kinship practices that decouple care from the domestic, create a pathway for the transfer of libidinal pleasures, and act...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 189–212.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of eroticism, which he elaborates in his second AIDS novel, The Mad Man (1994a).7 The Mad Man recuperates the radicalism of queer eroticism disavowed by mainstream gay literature and safe sex discourses alike, and through its erotic provocations, it redefines the relationship between experimental aesthetics...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 291–315.
Published: 01 June 2024
... as a commodity. Second, it focuses on the critical pleasure activism of Latin American transfeministas , including educational spaces such as squirting workshops, showing how, for some activists and artists, centering pleasure and the erotic is a space of countersexual world making that makes pleasure a communal...
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GLQ (2021) 27 (3): 407–429.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Central America. In attending to contingency, this essay hints at the necessary work of political erotics and the imagination in renegotiating otherwise fraught social movement histories and epistemologies. Considering this moment, like any queer isthmian temporality, rife with dogged hope in the unknown...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 35–61.
Published: 01 January 2020
... regions. Based on visits to twenty-two sites, I consider how sex museums and other institutions that display explicitly erotic materials frame same-sex media and objects within Kantian cosmopolitan values of sexual universalism, individualism, and equality (Kant 1957, 2010). Rather than take at face value...