...Jordana Rosenberg; Amy Villarejo Extending the recent rapprochement among queer studies, Marxist theory, and political economy, this special issue of GLQ responds to the current crisis of capitalism. Contributors consider how methodologies of queer studies are specially poised to reveal the global...

... 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...

... task of editing and providing an opening for the posthumous publication of José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown . While dwelling on the book's incompleteness yet its long time coming, Chambers-Letson and Nyong'o provide a beautiful genealogy of Muñoz's scholarship in queer studies, Latinx studies...

...Bonnie Ruberg Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Anthropy Anna . 2012 . Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form . New York : Seven...

...Cameron Clark Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State , Dillon Stephen , Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . vii + 189 pp. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 References Cohen Cathy . 1997 . “ Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens...

...Kirk Fiereck This article explores how Black LGBTQ-identified and other gender nonconforming South Africans juxtapose the queer with the customary as they constitute forms of biofinancial personhood that are paradigmatic of capitalisms globally. These hybrid forms of personhood inadvertently index...

...David Serlin Duke University Press 2003 CRIPPLING MASCULINITY Queerness and Disability in U.S. Military Culture, 1800–1945 David Serlin In the spring of 1945 Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., spon- sored a series of weekly revues, featuring big band orchestras...

...David Caron Duke University Press 2005 The GLQ Archive MY FATHER AND I Jewishness, Queerness, and the Marais David Caron My relationship with my father is a disaster.1 Let me give you an example. One day, in the fall of 1998, he and I took a little walk through the Marais, the old...

...Mary Zaborskis Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance . Rifkin Mark . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . xxii + 293 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 References Berlant Lauren Warner Michael...

...Sean Patrick Larvie Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 QUEERNESS AND THE SPECTER OF BRAZILIAN NATIONAL RUIN Sean Patrick Larvie snJune 1996 Lair Guerra de Macedo Rodrigues, director of Brazil’s National Program on Sexually Transmissible Diseases and AIDS (NPSTD...

...Jens Richard Giersdorf Duke University Press 2006 WHY DOES CHARLOTTE VON MAHLSDORF CURTSY? Representations of National Queerness in a Transvestite Hero Jens Richard Giersdorf For Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East German transvestite, 2004 was a signifi- cant year. Clad in her...

...Carrie Sandahl Duke University Press 2003 QUEERING THE CRIP OR CRIPPING THE QUEER? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance Carrie Sandahl As the interdisciplinary field of disability studies develops its own theoretical paradigms...

...Regina Kunzel This review essay considers the “state of the field” of queer studies, as pondered by participants in the conference “Rethinking Sex.” Held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 4–6, 2009, “Rethinking Sex” honored the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's...

...David L. Eng This essay reviews two books, M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred and Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures , both of which focus on the intersections of queer...

...Xavier Livermon This essay argues that liberation is as much a sociocultural construct as it is a political or economic one. Extending the South African queer scholar Mikki van Zyl's analysis of the distinction between citizenship and belonging, I examine the concept of freedom in postapartheid...

...Elias Walker Vitulli This essay reviews three recently published books that stand at the intersection of queer/trans studies and critical prison studies. These books show the multiple and complex ways that queerness pervades the US prison system and the devastating effects of criminalization...

... of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the need to understand the Midwest otherwise. This special issue offers...

...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...

...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...