... with a discussion of the subversive potential of queer Palestinian activism as a politics that challenges multiple oppressions and undermines, rather than naturalizes, the racist, antidemocratic logic of the nation. How Do You Say “Come Out of the Closet” in Arabic? Queer Activism and the Politics...

..., gossip, pedagogy, love, fear, and neglect. The thematics of liquids, she suggests, includes the thematics of fixation but does not synthesize it. “It spaces, distributes, circulates it.” There is, she says, a formal impartiality to the distribution throughout this long poem of its many disparate elements...

...Catherine Lord A dedication is a speech act. Like saying, “I do thee wed,” to write, “I make you a gift of the words I have written” is to cause to be true the statement uttered, to tender oneself to another upon the material support that makes writing itself possible, and with it narrative, logic...

... of postcolonial subjects in Cape Town and Hong Kong. In a moment of intensified counterterrorism, necropolitical nationalism, and resurgent yet covert forms of empire, both works have much to say about how the lives of sexual minorities are simultaneously affected by and resist Western imperialism. Thus they also...

...-century capitalism in the context of his determination, as he says in Walden , to “love the wild not less than the good.” It tracks Thoreau's interest in the wild as part of his career-wide effort to imagine carnal life away from the forms of biopolitical coding and optimization that he understood...

... some LGBTQ+ advocates as heralding the demise of the mythical “gay gene.” However, the study itself did not drive a stake through the heart of the “born this way” idea. In fact, the researchers framed their efforts as having revealed the “genetic architecture”—which is to say the blueprint or design...

... the depth of the screen that keeps my body here and yours there. When we made our plans, the screen was flat. But you went right through yours (I saw you leach under the silver light) and now all my computer screens, smoke screens, are open orifices and I am like Alice again falling through. You used to say...

... in which sexual pleasure is pursued, purchased, and weaponized, that is to say, valued in different ways. It first examines sex hotels and other spaces that, although historically part of a cisheteropatriarchal infrastructure, have increasingly allowed for a wider scope of persons to purchase pleasure...

... when they are not busy here. Some say that there are many other beings like those we know as well as other bodies and other gardens. Some rare afternoons after the feedings the regurgitations and the naps there are rebel- lions. One of the bodies complains, crying and yelling...

... collection, Gay Plays: Volume Four. As well as writing and translating, Bartlett often acts in and directs Gloria’s shows. My first question to Neil Bartlett was about Gloria’s perhaps unexpectedly busi- nesslike quality. Neil Barlett: Our businesslikeness is-I was going to say it’s a well-kept...

..., or was linked to other sorts of accounts of assaults, almost or deadly. (Say, the chair in the Chelsea Dallas BBQ that hit the white head, say the head that got chaired was taking mad shit, say that the head that got hit was hit by the force of an anger more complicated than any straight hate crime. Say...

.... Thus, there are holes in our collaboration. Huge holes. We are not holding out on you. We contra- dicted ourselves, and occasionally we lost our sense of irony. We didn’t say thank you with much...

... memory and to organize in his name. And there are so many other people. The last thing I'll say, and it is related to this book called Practicing New Worlds (Ritchie 2023 ) I just finished. (I'm pretty sure it's my last one.) It is not about all the things that I've talked about before—the things I...

... conclusion of the study is that there’s a significant genetic basis for sexual orientation. Now could you say a little bit more about what’s EVIDENCE FOR QUEER GENES: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD PILLARD in this computer program that indicates that this has got a genetic...

... the Blackpentecostal worship space tell us about life and love as queer horizon and thrust? In his argument about words and things, about knowledge and how it is ordered, Michel Foucault turns to the enunciative power of the breath, of the word, of the spoken, which is another way to say, he turns to the performance...

... of its charming kind that I know to have been concerned with a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children “We say, of course,” somebody exclaimed, “that two children give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them.” —Henry James...

..., a wish frustrated by their experience of their sexuality. If they could, they would eschew any critical awareness of their predicament. Contestation and politiciza- tion regarding innovative sexual futures are not what they are drawn to. In my book Never Say I, I investigated the uneven...

....                                                                              xxx i want my friends to love me,            but how does one do that? i want them to never say mija , assume i have somewhere to go when my jeva kicks me out, or that the mother that gives me the strongest embrace in the park, knows there's no continuity between her photos...

...Eli Clare Duke University Press 2003 The GLQ Archive GAWKING, GAPING, STARING Eli Clare Gawking, gaping, staring: I can’t say when it first happened. When first a pair of eyes caught me, held me in their vise grip, tore skin from muscle, muscle from bone. Those eyes always shouted...

... 12th, a month before it was supposed to go to Frameline, The Gendercator screened at Chicago Filmmakers in Chicago to an audience of two: Sam Feder and Jules Rosskam, creators of the acclaimed trans documentaries “Boy I Am” and “TransParent.” Sam Feder says, “While endorsing and aiding the bodily...