... Figure Skating Politics and the Many Pleasures of Life Claire Carter Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice Erica Rand Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2102. x + 309 pp. On a recent visit with an old high school friend...

...Julie R. Enszer Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women Rupp Leila J. New York : New York University Press , 2009 . xii + 302 pp . © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Books in Brief “Many Have Loved You with Lips and Fingers” Julie R. Enszer Sapphistries...

... and others. The essay concludes with two interconnected claims: first, rather than direct attention away from the world, religious experience helps queers of faith—many of whom are queers of color—achieve the consistency and courage they need to recalibrate their lives so that they can conduct themselves...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick This essay, written in 1976–77, is concerned primarily with James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” which was published in 1976. The poem tells of many nights spent by Merrill and his partner, David Jackson, in communication with a spirit named Ephraim, whose messages...

... the triangle trade crisscrossing that first ocean but as a continual navigation of many bodies of water—Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, Pacific—and many waves of migration? These are some of the questions explored in this work of historical fiction, which draws from oral histories to imagine...

... of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been thought, and articulated, by so many, and it does a violence to pretend otherwise. Our piece ends with a reflection on the way...

... States Embassy, and many Christian institutions. This article diverges from these biomedical and moral panics by attending to the shifting temporal allegiances of sarimbavy spirit medium-activists. Interlocutors’ roles as mediums to spirits of former reigning monarchs ( tromba ) necessitated an onerous...

...Ryan Patrick Murphy This essay offers a genealogy of lifestyle, a category widely used in the 1960s to mark dissident kinship networks and sexual practices: single parenting, bisexuality, gender nonconformity, polyamory, cohabitation, and communal living, among many others. I argue that the concept...

..., the cum and shit — and in doing so push at the cartographic and historiographical edges of food studies, critical race theory, and sexuality studies. As scholars engaged in thinking about consumption in and through these frameworks, we and the authors in these two issues see many points of convergence...

...Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé In the 1960s, camp's ironic register expanded to many of the decade's cultural and artistic discourses, becoming hegemonic in historical accounts. This essay examines the response of two queer diasporic Puerto Rican artists, the filmmaker José Rodríguez-Soltero and the drag...

... that exposes a flat stomach in a sudden opening of a hidden side zipper, a white T-shirt with a large heart-shaped opening exposing most of the chest, and many more articles of designed clothing, all partially covering, but mostly exposing, the top part of the body. In her reading of this piece, Hochberg...

... Asian diaspora in Gopinath's study. As sexuality travels in the global system, we witness its transformation into many other things: a discourse of development; a dialectic of Enlightenment; an emblem of democracy, progress, and liberation; a tale of racial, religious, or cultural barbarism; an index...

... that “there is not one but many silences,” queer theory continues to read celibacy as the sign of another practice: homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name” or the “impossibility” of lesbian sex. Mapping celibacy across sexuality studies' major conceptual grids (homo/hetero, acts/identities, fantasy...

... includes his pathbreaking study, The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry (1979), and influential writings on American, British, and Canadian authors, artists, and theorists, including E. M. Forster, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and many others. Duke University Press 2008 The GLQ Archive Queer...

...Nikki Sullivan We live in a world in which “the body” is conceived as a malleable substance in a state of potential transition and, moreover, the vast majority of bodies are experienced as “wrong”: they have too few (or too many) limbs or digits; they (or parts of them) are the wrong size...

... many television texts feature gay men as fathers. These texts usually present gay parenthood as a positive phenomenon and sometimes even as more successful than heteronormative parenthood. The recasting of gay parenthood as positive is achieved through various devices, some of which are familiar from...

... many personal/professional relationships that have made this generation of Black queer scholarship possible, Tinsley asks: Why does a next generation of Black queer scholarship feel less possible now than ten years ago. Allen proposes that this exchange be used to resituate “Black/Queer/Diaspora...

... intervened in key debates between optimistic and antisocial queer projects and has had a lasting impact on the field. Many of the questions, puzzles, and problems posed by GLQ ’s contributors in 2007 continue to hold relevance today. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 queer temporality...

..., in response to the narrator's demand for total empathetic identification? And, how can we draw out the text's queer potential? Versions of these two questions have been asked many times by critics, but always in the register of unveiling, unmasking, exposing. What if, rather than deconstructing or diagnosing...