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... conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them away from the future. I turn to Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) to consider what erotics might remain for these children...

... of toxicity proposes an extant queer bond, one more prevalent today than is perhaps given credit. Such a toxic queer bond might complicate utopian imagining, as well as address how and where subject-object dispositions might be attributed to the relational queer figure. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... of nonstandard sexualities and erotic attractions. The second part considers how Freud handled the question of family romance in his most notable treatment of a famous historical artist, Leonardo da Vinci, and suggests that a concept of queer family romance, though overlooked by Freud, might extend and improve...

... speaks to how condoms have been a way to manage communal fears about sexual excess in the era of AIDS, providing not only a latex barrier but also symbolic reassurance that gay sex might in some way be made “safe.” Another mode of attending to what is risky and exciting about sexual and scientific...

...Eric Stanley Abstract Through Indigenous critiques of the commons, this article asks what forms of collectivity might be built against the drives of settler-sovereignty. By centering various scales of forced removal and its resistance, I offer a reading of Gay Shame, a queer direct action group...

... of risk but also to show how racist violence itself might stem from the disavowal of the urge to dissolution that homosexuality is said to represent. The essay suggests, in turn, that this disavowal might be read as part of the ongoing conversion of homosexuality into a form of life, a process usefully...

... such as: Could this encounter between decolonial thinking and queer theory produce something else that might be thought of as “decolonial queer” (as enunciated in this article’s title)? Or are these theories incompatible, given that the term queer , rendered in English, signals the very sort of geopolitics...

... in the future . In contrast, intersex activists invoke post-medical futures, structured by norms of consent and bodily integrity. While queer approaches to temporality might challenge the notion of intervening surgically on an infant for the sake of the future adult the child will become, might this queer...

... queerness, which might initially seem marginal in this context, do in fact play a central role in both facilitating and transgressing the current hostile and oppressive relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. Duke University Press 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher...

... and rights, freedom and democracy, public and private, church and state. They show that the boundaries between church and state, public and private, identity and rights, race, sexuality, and religion are not as clear as they might seem. The solutions they offer push far past demands for identity-based rights...

... and the encroachment of the Nazis on Vienna. Against this murderous imposition, the memoir embraces a temporality defined by brevity and contingency—we might call it momentary time or ephemeral time. As such, this queer text speaks to queer theory's oppositions between normative and nonnormative time...

...Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography—or better, oceanography—of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading...

... what queer migrants might bring back home. I suggest that these repeated artistic homecomings trouble prevalent perceptions of migration as a movement from repression to freedom for queer migrants, perceptions that render such a return to the supposedly more “repressive” Dominican Republic undesirable...

...Iain Morland In this essay I explore how queer theory might account for postsurgical intersex bodies of diminished genital tactility. In other words, I evaluate whether a critique of surgery's effects is possible from a queer theoretical perspective on the body. I contend that for this purpose...

... what purchase might accrue conceptualizing this conversation as an instance of a “queer bond.” © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Part That Has No Part: Enjoyment, Law, and Loss Elizabeth A. Povinelli Like, pretend I am telling you about a woman who cut us. Beth...

... subjectivity might be reconceived otherwise, even as genealogical inheritance continues to haunt its instantiations. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Critical Bonds Daddy’s Girl Carla Freccero on Leo Bersani What still links democratization . . . to fraternization cannot always...

... of the Lacanian concept of perversion, which, James Penney argues, might offer a way beyond current stalemates in queer politics underwritten by Michel Foucault's critique of liberalism. Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis Nobus Dany and Downing Lisa , eds. New York...

... is embedded in and supportive of the racist discourses of Israeli nationalism and the violent practices of the Israeli state. I argue that the “checkpoint,” rather than the “closet,” offers a more productive metaphor against which queer activists and thinkers might organize their efforts. I conclude...

..., and wonder. The dedications included in the series “Lecture” are gifts slipped between the title page and the frontispiece of books that trace what might be called queer culture. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Moving Image Review Lesbian Archives For this Moving Image Review we brought...

... of participant observation but also its methods of interpretation, of writing and analysis—the essay queries the epistemological ground of our desires for sexual knowledge (data) that might exceed queer studies' theoretical categories. Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America...