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...Richard T. Rodríguez On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility . Martínez Ernesto J. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2013 . xiii + 199 pp . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Books in Brief Deconstructing Queer Settler Colonialism Brian Joseph...

... . APPREHENDING THE ANGRY ETHNIC FAG The Queer (Non)Sense of Shame in Justin Chin s Currency and Lick My Butt Chris A. Eng Lick my butt cos I m an angry ethnic fag & I m in so much pain so lick my butt Justin Chin, Lick My Butt (1997a) Romanticizing, of course, occurs when one is moving from one class...

... are exacerbated for the most underprivileged. Nonetheless, no Reynosa's resident escaped terror, which circulated through rumors on narco violence, and produced a form of intimacy between all inhabitants (see chap. 2). In chapter 3, Luna discusses how sex workers often felt a sense of obligation as mothers...

... community engagement project, The Magical Order (2014), which brings these divergent discourses together. Her collaboration with Larkin Street Youth Services, which serves homeless youth in San Francisco, explored weaker modes of engagement that bring to the fore the sense of force embedded...

... it yet nonetheless can be felt and perceived even though—or especially if—it remains unrecognizable or unintelligible to our current common senses. We can think of what escapes these operations as the content that exceeds its expression, that through which poetry from the future might be perceived yet...

...Paul Sendziuk; Roger Hallas; Jim Hubbard; Debra Levine In the age of AIDS, film and video became one of the principal means for grief-stricken activists and artists to bear witness and make sense of the epidemic and the loss of their lovers and friends. This Moving Image Review comprises short...

...) or identity disorders. Queer theory needs to reconsider sexuality in the Freudian sense of polymorphous-perverse, in its ungovernable, compulsive, and unconscious dimensions. Third, “the antisocial thesis” and the relation of queer theory to queer politics are discussed with regard to Lee Edelman's book...

... of the familiar and thereby position us, in a sense, to anachronize the present, to see our own ways of seeing the world as contingent, curious, and changeable. Duke University Press 2010 Thinking Sex with an Androgyne Joanne Meyerowitz More than twenty-­five years ago, when I first read Gayle...

... families constituted extrabiologically (i.e., in activities of generating cultural forms) can function psychically and socially as family in the fullest sense, they deserve more attention in contemporary debates about the legal-political status—even the very identity—of nontraditional family structures...

... subject positions that are distinct from the identities promoted and encouraged by activist lesbian organizations in Indonesia. In this article I examine the ways both lesbian activists in Jakarta and individuals in Padang selectively appropriate circuits of queer knowledge to make sense of their own...

...” can help us make sense of the history of medicalization and its pernicious effects, but in addition can allow those with intersex conditions and their allies to understand the positive possibilities that the change from intersex to DSDs can bring. Duke University Press 2009 Imperatives...

... destabilize the narratives we often use to make sense of both modern sexual identity and modernist literary aesthetics. In fact, this is why his work warrants more critical attention than it has traditionally received: it provides us with new ways of thinking about the relationship between queerness...

...Renugan Raidoo This article argues that homophobia should be read as a political engagement with social and economic uncertainty and its perceived causes through an extended analogy with the work on the modernity of witchcraft. “Figuration” is theorized as a way to account for, first, how senses...

... have remained largely silent on the ongoing surveillance, harassment, assault, arrest, and public shaming of men who cruise public restrooms. How might we make sense of this discrepancy? This essay offers a hypothesis for this relative silence: cruising is intolerable to liberals insofar as it evokes...

..., Nevada is written in opposition to hegemonic narratives of transition, rejecting the ideals of positivity and self-actualization embedded in such stories. In this sense, Nevada plumbs queer and trans negativity, but in so doing, it generates a more open-ended form for trans narrative, inviting the trans...

...” sense of freedom and transgression in/as the aftermath of the Dzi performances. Lastly, the article elaborates on the notion of the Dzi contagion and charts its affective and sociopolitical potentials by analyzing the articulation and dissemination of ontologies, subjectivities, and vocabularies...

..., it illustrates how whiteness is regularly affirmed as common sense in contrast to racial otherness. The essay additionally insists on examining films defying the customary aesthetic expectations of film critics in order to investigate the evocative representations they proffer. Copyright © 2019 Duke University...

... to stretch beyond the in/visibility debate surrounding transgender representation in popular media. It proposes that Soloway’s creative process designates open, imaginative space for audiences (both cisgender and transgender alike) to witness how gender comes to matter for Maura, both in the sense...

...James Huỳnh [email protected] The Sense of Brown . José Esteban Muñoz . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . xxxiii +185 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In their introduction, Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o write about the complicated...