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Transgender and Language: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for the Future
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GLQ (1999) 5 (4): 605–622.
Published: 01 October 1999
...Don Kulick Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 TRANSGENDER AND LANGUAGE
A Review of the literature and Suggestions for the Future
Don Kulick
At some very basic level, globalization and transnationalism- the themes of
this special issue of GLQ-imply both...
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National Drag: The Language of Inclusion in RuPaul's Drag Race
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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 501–520.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Matthew Goldmark This essay analyzes season 1 of the reality television series RuPaul's Drag Race to argue that the program presents drag as a path for upward mobility in the contemporary United States. At the same time, it demonstrates how language—in particular Spanish—troubles the program's...
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Yiddish Sexology: A New Language for the History of Sexuality
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 77–90.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of philology followed the same logic, deeming the Yiddish language—like the Jewish body—inferior and impure. While much has been written about the pathologizing of Jewish bodies by European sexologists (Gilman 1991 ; Pellegrini 1997 ), and while the role of Jewish scholars in the study of deviance has been...
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“AND THROUGH ITS NAMING BECAME OWNER”: Translation in James Thomas Stevens's Tokinish
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 191–206.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Sarah Dowling In this essay I read the long poem Tokinish by the Mohawk poet James Thomas Stevens. Stevens borrows passages of prose description from Roger Williams's 1643 Narragansett lexicon, A Key into the Language of America , as well as the earlier text's structure of facing columns of English...
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PUO'WINUE'L PRAYERS: Readings from North America's First Transtextual Script
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 243–252.
Published: 01 April 2010
...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...
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The 1001 Seances
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 457–481.
Published: 01 October 2011
... in the poem's language, which has to do “with the behaviors of liquids, with currents, obstruction, diffusion, and circulation.” She explores this thematic range in the relation between Ephraim and his mediums, Merrill and Jackson, in which there is more play, variously shifting among flattery, voyeurism...
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QUEER MEDIA LOCI IN BANGKOK: Paradise Lost and Found in Translation
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in English-language media. This article juxtaposes Thai media and lived experience to displace, recontextualize, and expand the prevailing Western view. It argues that Western gazes that depict Thailand as especially tolerant of homosexuality and gender variance may in fact inhibit the free expression...
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Queering China: A New Synthesis
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GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 353–378.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of analytical agendas: casting light on the importance of language and its discursive reach in popular understandings of same-sex desire, overturning the problem of long-standing heteronormative biases in area studies, grappling with the ghost of Western concepts of gender and sexuality, and jostling...
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“I Cherish My Bile Duct as Much as Any Other Organ”: Political Disgust and the Digestive Life of AIDS in Tony Kushner's Angels in America
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 121–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Ramzi Fawaz This essay explores the use of viscerally charged language around digestive dysfunction in AIDS cultural productions of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I coin the phrase “the digestive politics and poetics of AIDS” to describe the use of metaphors that linked the digestive dysfunctions...
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Discreet Talk about Supernatural Sodomy, Transgressive Gender Performance, and Male Same-Sex Desire in Zanzibar Town
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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 521–559.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of the communicative practices discussed are similar to secret “gay” languages in other contexts, but talk about spirits, and about Popobawa in particular, offers a unique way for transgressive men to respect local conversational norms while discreetly revealing their own identities and desires. © 2015 by Duke...
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BETWEEN GULAGS AND PRIDE PARADES: Sexuality, Nation, and Haunted Speech Acts
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GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 263–287.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., which was depicted as fighting for survival. The poem's offensive language was haunted by ghosts of a violent Soviet past, evoked through Soviet criminal jargon and intertextual references to gulag memoirs where same-sex relations were described as disgusting and monstrous. Following Judith Butler's...
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Queer Relay
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GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 569–597.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Lisa Henderson This essay seeks a new language, rooted in the concept of relay, for the politics of queer cultural production and representation. Relay refers to a cultural process of catching and passing on across the divides of sexual difference and capital. To make its operation concrete...
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Queer Lineations: Robert K. Martin and Gay Literary Studies
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GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 599–602.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Jay Grossman At the December 2006 MLA convention, the Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature organized a session titled “Queer Lineations: Robert K. Martin and Gay Literary Studies” to recognize the scholarly inventiveness and political commitment of one of the pioneers in LGBTQ studies...
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Writing “INFINITYLOOPS”: Sericultural Trans-Migrations through Literature and Cultural Theory
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 453–475.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the way to a less anthropocentric account of transmigratory processes. This essay shows how silkworms and silk cross and recross the constructed lines dividing East and West, matter and language, natural and synthetic. In doing so, silkworms enter a broader collective of trans-migrating bodies in which...
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How Meat Changed Sex: The Law of Interspecies Intimacy after Industrial Reproduction
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GLQ (2017) 23 (4): 473–507.
Published: 01 October 2017
... of these statutes have been enacted within the past three decades and most contain language that explicitly exempts animal husbandry and veterinary medicine from prosecution. The article explores the legislative politics that produce these exemptions and exposes an underlying ambiguity: in the age of industrial...
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Reading to the Letter: No Future and the Question of Rhetoric
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GLQ (2019) 25 (3): 431–455.
Published: 01 June 2019
... and summarizing the book’s ideas rather than analyzing its language. Countering this tendency, this essay reexamines No Future and the debates surrounding it in two ways: first, it resituates Edelman’s contributions to queer theory in relation to deconstructive theories of rhetoric, irony, and linguistic...
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Conjugality
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GLQ (2020) 26 (3): 377–403.
Published: 01 June 2020
... recent scholarship that examines marriage, as well as the law/legal infrastructure and language that offer conjugal rights, that is, social, economic, and legal rights, and confers statuses of personhood to those who have access to them. Bride , regardless of the specific gendered status and personhood...
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“Víctima del terremoto del amor y la pasión”: The Homoamorous Poetry of Francisco X. Alarcón (1954–2016)
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GLQ (2020) 26 (4): 649–671.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that captures the love and sexual satisfaction that can grow from a committed relationship. These periods are marked by different imagery, language, and poetic structure. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 bilingual poetry homoerotic poetry homoamorous poetry gay identity References...
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Can I Be Frank with You?: Laverne Cox and the Historiographic Dramaturgy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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GLQ (2021) 27 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the problematic nature of Rocky Horror ’s language and dated identity politics. Released in 1975, Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been a touchstone of queer popular culture for more than forty years. Rocky Horror is constructed as a self- conscious pastiche of multiple cultural...
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Representational Refusal and the Embodiment of Gender Abolition
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GLQ (2022) 28 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as an infrastructure of oppression upheld in part by the dominant narrative that people of color, poor people, and queer people are “dangerous” (to the white-capitalist-heteropatriarchy), it is critical to examine the visual language of criminalizing queerness and to further consider the work of artists grappling...
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