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The Ontologies of Putas: Feeling the Visual Archive of Sex Work and Working Sex
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 346–350.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Yessica Garcia Hernandez [email protected] Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex . Juana María Rodríguez . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2023 . xiii + 272 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 In Spanish-speaking countries the quotidian use...
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Queer of Color Critique and the Decriminalization of Sex Work
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 337–341.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Juana María Rodríguez This contribution to Q 2 is a discussion of the urgency of addressing the ongoing criminalization of sex work in the current historical moment. The article links the myriad issues related to the stigmatization and criminalization of sex work to the theoretical origins of queer...
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Oceans, Archives, Perverts: Sex Work in the Colonial Port City
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GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 541–566.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Juno Jill Richards This study follows the oceanic routes of female migrant laborers as a way to reconsider the geographies of queer theory through the colonial port city. In so doing, the author highlights feminized forms of migrant labor, including sex work and care work, as a central facet...
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Anti/social Abolitionism
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 265–290.
Published: 01 June 2024
... utopian knowledge projects. Then, another triangle, this one of utopian political projects: police/prison abolition, sex work decriminalization/destigmatization, and visions of queer/trans liberation. The author attempts to outline shared discursive strategies between these projects and how they inflect...
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Evangelical Ecstasy Meets Feminist Fury: Sex Trafficking, Moral Panics, and Homonationalism during Global Sporting Events
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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 325–357.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of the political economic conditions or systems of governance. By destroying safe and legal venues for sex work, these actors have created the very exploitation they purport to prevent. The article also links these actions to US foreign policy mandates and a broader shift in governmentality in Brazil predicated...
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“Jai Hijra, Jai Jai Hijra”: Self-Respect and Performance during the 2015 Telangana Swabhimana Walk
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GLQ (2025) 31 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 January 2025
... translates to “self-respect”) from globalized notions of pride and caste-based understanding of dignity and respect. In the process, it highlights how working-class trans activists “disidentify” with the Hindu caste system as well as Dalit and anti-caste critiques of sex work to rally for the dignity...
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“Homosexuals in Adolescent Rebellion”: Central City Uprisings during the Long Sixties
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GLQ (2023) 29 (2): 157–182.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and economic norms shared by those who took collective action: the self‐defined “kids on the street” who often traveled from central city “tenderloin” to “tenderloin,” connecting far‐flung districts through migratory circuits. Sustaining themselves through sex work and other criminalized economies, kids...
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Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded: Disability and Nonheteronormativity in Rural White Eugenic Family Studies
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GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 515–540.
Published: 01 October 2022
... concerned about same-sex sexuality and other nonproductive sexualities among the unfit, despite their focus on the “science of better breeding.” This article first analyzes how eugenicists defined a desire for work as the counterpoint to perverse sexual desire. Next, it examines how state institutions used...
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“THE Viper's Traffic-Knot”: Celibacy and Queerness in the “Late” Marianne Moore
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GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 509–535.
Published: 01 October 2008
... temporality in relation to recent work on queer temporality. Under both these rubrics, time is an ideological force that regulates sex: for example, the “old maid” is “late” according to a trajectory of normal sexual maturation that must pass through marriage. Moore's Tell Me, Tell Me offers a depathologized...
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PROGRESS AND POLITICS IN THE INTERSEX RIGHTS MOVEMENT: Feminist Theory in Action
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GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 April 2009
... activist and academic experiences. They argue that, in the last fifteen years, much progress has been made in terms of improving the medical and social attitudes toward people with intersex, but that significant work remains to be done to ensure that children born with sex anomalies will be treated...
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Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson's Performances of Self-Realization
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 465–485.
Published: 01 October 2013
... cultivated and punished, and her works expose the slippery relations between self-admiration and same-sex desire that underwrite the pursuit of normative bodily ideals. These performances are placed in the context of Hawk Swanson's earlier investigations of conflicted self-objectification — in particular...
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Yiddish Sexology: A New Language for the History of Sexuality
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 77–90.
Published: 01 January 2023
... diverse transnational Jewish communities and reflecting varying engagements with the emergent science of sex. This article focuses on the work of one doctor, Leonard Landis, working at the turn of the twentieth century in New York, who was by far the most prolific (and controversial) author of Yiddish...
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Beyond Prostitution: Sexual Commerce as Precarity and Possibility in Mumbai, India
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GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Maura Finkelstein Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai . Shah Svati P. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . xvii + 280 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 154 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES
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GLQ (2016) 22 (4): 541–568.
Published: 01 October 2016
... to be protecting children, then it may be a long time before sexual liberty
comes to unmarried parents — not to mention anyone who engages in presumably
less “dignified” practices such as polyamory and sex work.10 It may also be bad
news for the children of such persons, who seem likely...
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Sex Hotels and Squirting Workshops: Queering the Value(s) of Pleasure in and beyond Mexico City
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 291–315.
Published: 01 June 2024
... attended a sex education workshop put on by Vulgar, a collaboration between Sucia Urrea and Melina Gaze, whose work centers pleasure in relation to social justice. They worked together in Mexico City for several years, although Sucia is originally from Colombia, and Melina, who is Ecuadorian American...
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Queer Medieval: Uncovering the Past
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GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 639–658.
Published: 01 October 2008
... did people really do with/to each other
(and do we care to know)?13 In medieval studies, for instance, is courtly love
embodied erotics or just a literary game (or both)? Is same-sex affectivity passion-
ate, or is it “ennobling love”? Stephen Jager’s eponymous work sees alleged state-
ments...
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Realizing Rights in Manila: Brokers and the Mediation of Sexual Politics in the Philippines
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 529–563.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Ryan Richard Thoreson In recent years, a great deal of scholarly work has focused on global queering and the roles that nongovernmental organizations and activists play in diffusing models of sex and sexuality. With its focus on large-scale phenomena, however, this scholarship has tended to gloss...
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White Trash and the Queer South: Doing Sex Badly in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 477–500.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... How does this work? In Bone's case, the court marks her a bastard because her father does not claim her. Illegitimacy indicates not only familial abandonment and privation but also sex outside the bounds of normative kinship. 28 If “bastardy is a discourse of missing parts” (Kraus 2003 : 197...
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(Trans)gendering Abolition: Black Trans Geographies, Art, and the Problem of Visibility
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GLQ (2022) 28 (2): 259–276.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947–1959 . Atlanta, GA : Dust-to-Digital . Maynard Robyn . 2012 . “ Carceral Feminism—The Failure of Sex Work Prohibition .” Fuse Magazine 35 , no. 3 : 28 – 33 . McDonald CeCe . 2015 . Foreword to Captive Genders: Trans...
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Queer Imaginings
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 October 2012
... practices such as dance, sex work, and erotic friendships (160 – 61). He
suggests that although Afro-Cubans are negatively “hailed,” many find a means
to use such interpellation to individual and/or communal advantage — though
in a manner markedly different from...
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