... on Homosexuals in the Military.” The New York Times 20 July 1993 : A14 . STATUS. CONDUCT. WORD. AND DEED - - ~~ ~ --I -- -- I I A RESPONSE TO JANET HALLEY~ Judith Butler J anet Halley’s enormously thorough...

... 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...

... Joseph Gilley is associate professor of anthropology and director of the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2370306 The Sense of Responsibility Richard T. Rodríguez On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives...

... it with a response I posted to one of the several smart and engaged comments readers shared on the blog. Notes 1. See Tim Miller and David Román, “Preaching to the Converted,” Theatre Journal 47 (1995): 169 – 88. 2. Dan Basila, e-mail message to author, October 15, 2005. 3. Jill Dolan...

... a 2017 federal court ruling ( Cherokee Nation v. Nash ) that Freedmen descendants have all rights and responsibilities of Cherokee citizens as stipulated in the Nation's 1866 treaty with the United States, and further struck the words “by blood” from the Cherokee constitution in reference to citizenship...

... (ingestion, defecation, and excretion) worked to rearticulate public culture's disgust with the bodies of people with AIDS to a disgust with government neglect. I argue that the play's affective investment in the gut as a site for intuiting one's response to American political life resonated with an array...

... centered on the promise and pitfalls associated with pushing beyond disciplinary frameworks and methodological conventions toward, for example, narrative theorizing and creative responses as a legitimate way to represent black women's (erotic) histories. Whither interdisciplinarity? What are the limits...

...Mitra Rastegar Through an analysis of Western lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activist responses to the executions of two youths in Iran in 2005, this article considers why an interpretation of the executions as a case of antigay persecution became predominant despite reasons...

... historical archives, this essay traces what I term the visceral archives of the body to show how particular acts and desires come into archival being (and thus into historicity) by eliciting visceral responses — “gut feelings” — on the part of suspects, witnesses, colonial authorities, scribes, archivists...

...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...

... issuing mainly from gay community-based commentators, with initial uptake much slower than expected. This article considers early gay community responses to PrEP and connects them to the failure of existing HIV scientific practices to produce inhabitable sexual pedagogies. The controversy surrounding PrEP...

... in the context of the boom in LGBT documentaries of the time. Putting Rechy's text in conversation with the contemporaneous documentary Word Is Out (1977), by Peter Adair, the article establishes The Sexual Outlaw as both a response to and a parody of these landmark films, specifically by shedding light...

...Brian J. Distelberg An analysis of gay male reviewers' responses to major commercial publishers' expanded offerings of fiction by and about gay people during the 1970s reveals how reviewers constructed a machinery of gay-identified criticism, negotiated new definitions of gay identity, and forged...

... by the predominantly Baptist Cherokee majority, this essay argues instead for a modern queer Cherokee aesthetic that is both responsive to the contemporary experiences of gender- and sexuality-variant Cherokees and inspired by the late Mississippian category of “anomaly” as a queer-inclusive tribal model for belonging...

...Carla Freccero This essay, originally delivered as a response to Leo Bersani's presentation “Father Knows Best” at UC Berkeley's “Queer Bonds” conference, provides a critical appraisal of Bersani's reading of Claire Denis's film Beau Travail , exploring both the film's neo- and postcolonial...

...D. A. Miller D. A. Miller's “Call for Papers” is an homage to Barbara Johnson on the occasion of a memorial service held for her in Berkeley. She was, for Miller, a “critic's critic”: in a posthumous response to her “Bringing Out D. A. Miller,” a review of his book Bringing Out Roland Barthes , he...

... in their philosophical and political contexts, I then use A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746) to show how Edwards's evolving response to revivalist disruptions of hierarchy led him to describe a sentimental structure of desire similar to masochism as a defense against a modern subjectivity that would allow...

... of historical legacies, the vigor as well as the fragility of counterpublics, the tensions between individualizing and collectivizing responses to disaster, and the social management of despair. Yet despite their virtues, these books also raise questions about the limitations of accounts that isolate HIV/AIDS...

...Jessica Lawless This essay is a collection of statements, thoughts and opinions that exploded across the internet in response to a controversy that occurred during the 2007 LGBT film festival season. Catherine Crouch's short, The Gendercator, is the first film to be accepted and then removed from...

... multiple queer modernities and result as much from local responses to similar economic conditions as from foreign cultural influences. The alternative narrative of queer histories beyond the West presented here decouples the spread of capitalism from cultural Westernization. It highlights moments where...