...Eunjung Kim This essay questions the perspective that distinguishes humans from objects on the grounds of ability and considers the departure from recognizable markers of humanity. Thinking through performances by Marina Abramović and through the 2006 South Korean film I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK...

...Kane Race Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has so far emerged as a reluctant object in much gay community discourse, primarily because of its association with the supposed excesses of unbridled sex. Its approval in the United States sparked bitter debate and a new round of sexual health moralism...

...Jill H. Casid Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire Jennifer Doyle Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press , 2006 . xxxi + 184 pp . Duke University Press 2009 Jill H. Casid is associate professor of visual culture studies and director of the Visual Culture Center...

..., inanimate objects, and things in between can be queered and racialized without human bodies present, quite beyond questions of personification. Theorizing this animacy offers an alternative, or a complement, to existing biopolitical and recent queer-theoretical debates about life and death, while the idea...

... variables, the essay addresses their intersection. The first part briefly outlines how queer collections, regardless of the stylistic and iconographic affiliations of particular objects, are constituted in “family resemblances” among objects that tend, overall, to inflect the entire array in terms...

... to be haunted by spectral appearances of gender, sexuality, and racialization, particularly where the to-be-commodified object is concerned. What I focus on is how a particular—and multiply displaced—subjectivity inhabits the scene of commodity fetishism and how commodity fetishism structures and marks not only...

...Cynthia Barounis This essay develops a new crip application of the camp aesthetic that explores how early framings of camp, as a coping mechanism and an affective relation to and between objects, can resonate powerfully with the recent turn in disability studies toward mad feminism, new materialism...

... regions. Based on visits to twenty-two sites, I consider how sex museums and other institutions that display explicitly erotic materials frame same-sex media and objects within Kantian cosmopolitan values of sexual universalism, individualism, and equality (Kant 1957, 2010). Rather than take at face value...

.... The theoretical pressure that the visceral conjures as the line between subject and object becomes increasingly obfuscated in the neoliberal, postcolonial, and neocolonial, environmentally apocalyptic world. Our goal in calling for this work was to map that abject and erotic territory — the blood and guts...

... as (always and only) a victim of military inspection, turning him instead into an object of desire well aware of his desirability. Furthermore, focusing on the most common search routine practiced by the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint, the lifting of Palestinian shirts to ensure...

... for a queer feminist ethics. Reading Irigaray's ethics of eros through an ethical Foucauldian lens, the essay accomplishes three objectives: (1) it analyzes the virtually unexplored relation between Irigaray and Foucault to make the case for a queer Irigaray; (2) it unravels the aporetic knot of sexual ethics...

... fundamentally and diversely gendered in that the organization of same-sex desire flowed from the varying performances of, and identifications with, masculinity and femininity. Beginning with World War II, however, object choice displaces gender as the defining feature of homosexuality. This essay disputes...

...Ramzi Fawaz; Shanté Paradigm Smalls This essay calls for a reinvestment in queer readings of queer literary objects by invoking the Queer Nation polemic, Queers Read This! Tracing the importance and variety of queer reading as a modality of living, an intellectual specialty, and form of sociality...

...Amalle Dublon Abstract The dossier section contains shorter writings that allow the reader to appreciate varied objects of study, and the potentially wide field of subjects and methods, relevant to the theme of a queer commons. From sound art and the internet, to urban activism and relationality...

...Andy Campbell Beginning with a brief rumination on a series of works produced by the artist Glenn Ligon in the late 1990s, this article considers a special double-issue of GLQ edited by Richard Meyer and David Román dedicated to unspooling “visual objects and cultural episodes as a queer way...

... sidelined. Through examining this institutional history in conversation with theoretical debates about “transgender” as an object of inquiry in queer studies, the author argues for a discursively and material significant separation of “transgender” from the LGB(T)Q acronym, if only to examine the category...

... to understand the encounter between object choice as the organizing dimension of sexuality and its collision with other sexual knowledges and organizations: intimacy, bodily practice, positionality, sexual acts, behaviors, desires, and so forth. Reading across literary, sexological, legal, and religious...

... this structural adjustment, is unable to articulate “particularity” or “difference” (since fungibility presumes an object stripped of human qualities, such as identity). The article analyzes the “murder” of Steen Keith Fenrich as a trapped within the crevices of this methodological problem. Onticide is presented...