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The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

Sue-Ellen Case

GLQ (1993) 1 (1): 79–82.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1-1-79

Published: 01 November 1993

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Black Femme Menace: How Queer Battle Fatigue Intersects with Blackness and Gender

Kaila Adia Story

GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 233–236.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8141788

Published: 01 April 2020

...Kaila Adia Story Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Lorde Audre . 1988 . A Burst of Light: Essays . Ithaca, NY : Firebrand Books . Story Kaila Adia . 2017 . “ Fear of a Black Femme: The Existential Conundrum of Embodying a Black Femme Identity...

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THE FIGURE OF THE BLACK FEMME AND HER RADICAL ELSEWHERE

Stacy I. Macías

GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 349–351.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-148

Published: 01 April 2009

...Stacy I. Macías The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense Kara Keeling Durham, NC: Duke University Press , 2007 . ix + 209 pp . Duke University Press 2009 Stacy I. Macías is a PhD candidate in women's studies at the University...

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The Potentiality of the Latina Femme Gesture

Alessa Dominguez

GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 143–145.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3315289

Published: 01 January 2016

...Alessa Dominguez Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings . Juana María Rodríguez . New York : New York University Press , 2014 . x + 245 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 THE POTENTIALITY OF THE LATINA FEMME GESTURE BOOKS IN BRIEF 143 Alessa Dominguez...

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COLD WAR FEMME: Lesbian Visibility in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All about Eve

Robert J. Corber

GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 1–22.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-1

Published: 01 January 2005

...Robert J. Corber Duke University Press 2005 COLD WAR FEMME Lesbian Visibility in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All about Eve Robert J. Corber In the ﬁnal scene of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 Academy Award–winning ﬁlm All about Eve, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), the ﬁlm’s manipulative...

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Queering the Pinup: History, Femmes, and Brooklyn

Amber Jamilla Musser

GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 55–80.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3315229

Published: 01 January 2016

... and femme agency remains consistent. Yet the ways in which time, place, gender, and race meet are not straightforward. Through the various iterations of the calendar, we can see that these contemporary performances of femme-ness are part of a particular affective attachment to the 1950s. This essay...

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FIFTIES FEDS, FAGS, AND FEMMES

John Howard

GLQ (2005) 11 (1): 162–164.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-1-162

Published: 01 January 2005

... York: Ballantine, 1991). Jonathan Alexander is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati. 162 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES FIFTIES FEDS, FAGS, AND FEMMES John Howard The Lavender Scare: The Cold War...

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Reframing Suicide: Queer Diasporic and Indigenous Imaginaries

Beenash Jafri

GLQ (2021) 27 (4): 577–602.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9316852

Published: 01 October 2021

...Beenash Jafri Abstract What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself ( 2017...

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MY BODY, MY CLOSET: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming-Out Discourse

Ellen Samuels

GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 233–255.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-233

Published: 01 April 2003

... to explore constructions of coming out or passing in a number of social contexts. In the third section I further explore these issues through a focus on two “invisible” identities: lesbian-femme and nonvisible disability.1 Thus each section seeks to “queer” disability in order to develop...

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Transnational Discourses and Circuits of Queer Knowledge in Indonesia

Evelyn Blackwood

GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 481–507.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-002

Published: 01 October 2008

...: that of normatively female/women (the girlfriends) and physi- cally female/men (the tombois). Lesbi in Padang are also familiar with the English words butch and femme, which they encounter via tomboi connections with lesbi individuals or communities in Jakarta. Lesbi in Padang...

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MONIQUE WITTIG'S MATERIALIST UTOPIA AND RADICAL CRITIQUE

Brad Epps, Jonathan Katz

GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 423–454.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-001

Published: 01 October 2007

..., as some of her critics have contended, but as a pragmatic demonstration in the here and now that the putatively natural division of the sexes, with its basis in heterosexual reproduction, is “in fact” artificial, that is to say, political (“On ne naît pas femme,” PS, 51 n. 3).3...

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Divas on the Dance Floor

Joshua Chambers-Letson

GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 639–641.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9991383

Published: 01 October 2022

... for wearing the wrong outfit, having the wrong body, too thick an accent, too dark a skin tone, too femme a formation, or for juking with a little too much abandon and uncouth swish. In Ishtyle there is no way to be the wrong kind of queer, or the wrong kind of desi. Instead, as one settles into this book...

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Queer Arab Sexualities and the Grind against Heteronormativity

Dina Georgis

GLQ (2024) 30 (2): 252–254.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11028982

Published: 01 April 2024

... to femme , a Western identity formation that emerged post–World War II and was popularized in the 1990s, signifying a queer or non-normative femininity. Like femme, banat as Shomali treats it celebrates brazen feminine expression and offers an apt way to represent the spectrum of subjects who refuse...

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LESBIAN MODERNISM?

Suzanne Raitt

GLQ (2003) 10 (1): 111–121.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-1-111

Published: 01 January 2003

...” (11). Lisa Walker considers the possibility that the occlusion of the femme lesbian both in early sexology and in some later lesbian communities—the fact that “lesbianism came to be deﬁned in a way that marginalized femmes” (xvi)—is a defense, born of the same anxiety...

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THE USES OF ABJECTION

David Kurnick

GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 329–331.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-141

Published: 01 April 2009

... of the Black Femme and Her Radical Elsewhere Stacy I. Macías The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense Kara Keeling Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. ix + 209 pp. In The Witch’s Flight, Kara Keeling seeks to reveal through analyses of black...

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TRANSPARENT FIGURES

Michael D. Snediker

GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 332–334.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-142

Published: 01 April 2009

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OF LESBIANS AND TECHNOSPERM

Laura Briggs

GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 335–337.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-143

Published: 01 April 2009

... of the Visual Culture Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-147 Books in Brief 349 The Figure of the Black Femme and Her Radical Elsewhere Stacy I. Macías The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic...

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