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GLQ (1995) 2 (4): 379–398.
Published: 01 October 1995
...Peggy Phelan Because I cannot now love you body to body I will try to love you in words. Hand to eye, my fingers playing lightly across your closed eyes, tongue to ear. Can you still hear my voice there? Sliding across the screens we dreamt we'd make our different dreams live on, I pause and feel...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 413–437.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to a double-bind in which queer Appalachian writers often profess to find themselves: on the one hand, dismissed as coal-loving “white trash” by urban environmentalists; on the other, subjected to right-wing violence at home. Mann's writing negotiates this tension through poetic engagement with “hillbilly...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (4): 617–647.
Published: 01 October 2019
... scholarship in feminist new materialism as well as its critics, this essay considers the implications of these imaginings. On the one hand, the modes of agency that Case’s songs invoke frequently entail a circumvention or suppression of specific political interests, making them susceptible to antifeminist...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 493–516.
Published: 01 October 2010
.../Palestinians, occupiers and occupied. The discourses about gay rights and sexual tolerance, on the one hand, and the strict state regulation of sexual behaviors, identifications, and bonds, on the other, both come to crisscross and complicate the more common and openly discussed concerns associated...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 135–143.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., the major site of struggle over sexuality in the past 150 years. These campaigns situate their critiques of heterosexuality outside conventional heterosexual intimacy and marriage by carving off an allegedly unique and dangerous zone (in public, for money, at the hands of strangers) in which sex...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 January 2022
....” This article takes this incident of rumor or accusation as a critical opportunity to think about the archival reality of Black queer sexuality, on one hand, and sexual violence in Black gospel music history on the other. Using the legal documents from Christopher B. Harris v. Irwin Goldring as Special...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 267–289.
Published: 01 June 2018
... literature that allows for its reclamation for lesbian use. Furthermore, the essay demands a return to the terminology associated with lesbianism, rather than queerness, because of the woman-centeredness of the texts at hand, structural elements drawn from lesbian sexual and relational practices...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 95–120.
Published: 01 January 2015
... as the primary site of (post)colonial intervention, understood as both a replication and a critique of colonial violence. Placing the visceral so firmly within the alimentary tract allows Marechera to bring out the literal and metaphorical properties of consuming that, on the one hand, foreground the power...
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GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 433–452.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to know my Characters; for my Letters are rather like Characters, then well-formed Letters. Said the Emperess, you were recom- mended to me by an honest and ingenious Spirit. Surely, answered the Duchess, the Spirit is ignorant of my hand-writing. The truth is, said the Emperess...
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GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 521–545.
Published: 01 October 2005
... themselves somewhat helplessly shepherded to the story’s conclusion. This lesson is not an easy one, for by way of a discursive sleight of hand, “The Gift of Sweat” induces us to make a mistake so that, no matter what, we fi nish the story as shamefaced respondents...
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GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 257–261.
Published: 01 April 2003
..., “Freak, retard, cripple,” demanding an answer for tremoring hands, a tomboy’s bold and unsteady gait I never grew out of. It started young, anywhere I encountered humans. Gawking, gaping, staring seeped into my bones, became the marrow. I spent thirty years shutting it out, slamming the door...
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GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 263–305.
Published: 01 April 2003
... making me feel even worse about my incurable shame and transparent cowardice. Her Baldness, on the other hand, though she spouted a good line, had places she would not go. She also had times...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 287–308.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and heteronormativity, especially when heteronormativity is displaced within the sociality of settler colonialism. On the one hand are questions that accumulate around shared jouissance and the kind of social bond it creates. Leaving aside the particularities of Ruby Yarrowin’s...
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GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 307–319.
Published: 01 April 2003
... tentatively. I intimidate them.” I replied, “You do not intimidate me.” Here in this bed I want to touch her very self-assuredly and start to do just that. I move my hand in and out of her ass, faster and then faster still. She is moaning now and opens up for me a little more...
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GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2007
... with stones, blotched with green. He moves diagonally across the frame, his body hug- ging the low raised mound that runs upward from the lower left-hand corner to the upper right-hand corner of the frame and divides one field from its neighbor. The shot continues in real time as the camera pans down...
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GLQ (2007) 13 (4): 553–561.
Published: 01 October 2007
... a bit before sunset. They walk solemnly while beating their tambourines with bare hands. Their bod- ies are without clothes, and on their heads they wear silver-colored caps. One by one they carry the bodies to the pool where they let them fall with great splashes. One...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 273–293.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Ecologies of Transgender Matter Jeanne Vaccaro Crochet Coral Reef (2005 – ) is a woolly exoskeleton of coralline geometries and sea critters made by a collective of hands joining animal and plastic fibers in hyperbolic shapes. The reef is a “testimony to the disappearing wonder of liv- ing reefs...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (1): 111–130.
Published: 01 January 2001
...—for example, hands on hips, fingers forward—which are used to diagnose gender identity dis- order, a category of mental illness listed in the DSM-IV, the current diagnostic handbook of the shrinks. Luckily, when the friction of my teenage misery burst...
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GLQ (2003) 9 (3): 367–391.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., possessively, even brutally protective—“Too free with my boy?” As James R. Kincaid demonstrates in voluminous detail, we imag- ine there is always a seductive Quint, even a ghastly Miss Jessel now and then, lying in wait to corrupt the sexual innocence of every child today, just as there is always a hand...
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GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 389–423.
Published: 01 June 2002
... aphoristic units of sense, much as does the end-stopped English heroic couplet. For Leoninus and his contemporaries, the elegiac couplet was above all the meter of Ovid’s amatory verse and thus, in the hands of its more accomplished medieval practitioners, the vehicle for sophisticated wit and wordplay...