...Sandra K. Soto Duke University Press 2005 CHERRÍE MORAGA’S GOING BROWN “Reading Like a Queer” Sandra K. Soto Every person who comes to a queer self-understanding knows in one way or another that her stigmatization is connected with gender, the family, notions of individual...

...Kathryn Bond Stockton Duke University Press 2007 Feeling Like Killing? Queer Temporalities of Murderous Motives among Queer Children Kathryn Bond Stockton Charged with the drainage of dreams, the police catch them in their filters.  — Jean Genet, Querelle de Brest (E...

...Monica Bachmann Duke University Press 2000 1045-02.Bachmann 5/31/00 3:08 PM Page 377 “SOMEONE LIKE DEBBY” (De)Constructing a Lesbian Community of Readers Monica Bachmann Many scholars agree that the 1940s saw dramatic changes...

... Responses to the Poems of Joy Harjo, or What’s an Old-Timey Gay Boy Like Me to Do? Craig Womack (Muscogee Creek) Suspicioning. I’ve used the word a number of times, mentioned my grandmother, Velma Jones, who treated it as a verb, always going about suspicioning things, as in I suspicion...

... of Society . translated by Holmes Stephen Larmore Charles . New York : Columbia University Press . BOOKS IN BRIEF 203 LIKING, LIKENESS, ALIKENESS Marcie Frank Like Andy Warhol Jonathan Flatley Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. viii + 276 pp. Jonathan Flatley s Like Andy Warhol...

... the depth of the screen that keeps my body here and yours there. When we made our plans, the screen was flat. But you went right through yours (I saw you leach under the silver light) and now all my computer screens, smoke screens, are open orifices and I am like Alice again falling through. You used to say...

... often-disqualified experiences of depression and anxiety. Taking paranoia and its causes seriously, both Hothead and The Witch allow us to shift our focus away from what camp looks like and toward the question of what camp feels like. Thus, against queer discourses of camp that emphasize irony, humor...

... of the performative’s structure as irreducibly contingent; its structural rule is the possibility of the failure of the performative, rather than its success. The cultural milieus of postapartheid South Africa are also spaces where financial instruments like derivatives, social theory, and pharmaceuticals actively...

...” in an effort to query the conceptual pressures undergirding the process of scaling the quotidian to the erotic and political blueprint. The conundrum of the black vernacular is that objects like Buti Voxx become locked into the affective expectations and hermeneutic feedback loops set in motion by altruistic...

... is the clearest expression of his queer anthropomorphism, the belief that animals are not only human-like but that humans are irrepressibly animal-like because of their shared sexual nature. Through a highly confessional and sexualized discourse, Treadwell's text registers a sacrificial and masochistic desire...

...Peter Coviello What does sex radicalism look like—for queer theory but not only queer theory—in a critical dispensation tuned less to the liberatory promises of sex than to matters of biopower ? This article takes up Henry David Thoreau's vexed relation to the ascetic imperatives of nineteenth...

... into the present, questioning the lack of memory and discourse on AIDS in contemporary US culture. Like Román, I insist on the importance of humanistic discourse on AIDS through embodied, cultural interventions. Moreover, I point to discursive backlash that humanistic discourse often solicits via a critique...

..., critical perspective, particular alliances with dominant power structures may often look like blatant and cynical attempts at self-advancement, there is abundant evidence that they are more often experienced as emotionally driven, personal choices that are different from political ones and superior to them...

... material institutional practices, I argue that queer studies scholars often produce stories about queer studies that are strikingly at odds with what the field actually looks like on an institutional level. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 queer theory queer studies anti-empiricism...

... of neoliberalism on sexual citizenship in the United States and abroad, and narratives of safety in authoritarian systems like the state and the prison. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 safety security queer neoliberalism References Amar Paul . 2013 . The Security Archipelago...

... organizational narrative is deeply imbricated. Organizations like Dutch international human rights funder Hivos that have funded the championing of sexual rights often fail to fully engage with and interrogate this (colonial) cultural archive. This is the customary in its hegemonic form. By deploying...

... but still-fraught figures for the self such as the “martyr,” the “saint,” or the “heretic.” Queer astrology unquestionably breaks the fearful mold beheld by critics like Aby Warburg and Theodor Adorno. But is it political? And if it is, how so? What are its potentials? How do we construe a queer...

.... This article takes up the question of what queer theory can do for intersex, with particular focus on queer temporality. I consider the example of “hypospadias repair,” a surgical intervention justified by invoking restrictive norms of what the penis should look like and be able to do at some point...

...Emma Train Abstract The author elaborates the intersection of environmental theory and queer theory through a reading of the figure of the lesbian, which scholars, like Robyn Wiegman, Valerie Traub, and Lynne Huffer, have recently used to argue for a more nuanced reconsideration of gender...