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...Elisabeth Ladenson Duke University Press 2001 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. GLQ 7.3-01 Ladenson 5/24/01 1:36 PM Page 371 THE SPECIAL ISSUE THAT SHAGGED ME...

... 2004 Announcements Essays Sought for a Special Issue of GLQ on Queer Arts GLQ is currently soliciting essays for a special issue on queer arts, to be guest- edited by David Román and Richard Meyer. The editors encourage new and innovative work on any aspect of the visual...

...Joseph M. Pierce; María Amelia Viteri; Diego Falconí Trávez; Salvador Vidal-Ortiz; Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal Abstract This special issue questions translation and its politics of (in)visibilizing certain bodies and geographies, and sheds light on queer and cuir histories that have confronted...

...Chase Gregory This article revisits Joshua J. Weiner and Damon Young’s “Queer Bonds” special issue of GLQ , arguing that the issue’s focus on the impossible-yet-persistent nature of queer sociality effectively reinvigorates tired debates in the field of queer theory. Seven years after its...

...Daniel Heath Justice; Mark Rifkin; Bethany Schneider This special issue proposes that dialogue between Native studies and queer studies can contribute to our understanding of the U.S. nation-state, Native polities and peoplehood, and the complex role of culture(s) in political expression...

...Diane Watt In 1993 Speculum , the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, published a special issue titled “Studying Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism.” It was a milestone in medieval studies, marking, belatedly, institutional recognition of the important contribution feminism and gender studies had...

...Jennifer Doyle In a discussion of the problem that Caster Semenya's velocity poses to the category woman, the introduction to this special issue shifts focus from Semenya's body (which has been the topic of much discussion during Semenya's temporary suspension from competition while officials...

... 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...

...Lauren Jae Gutterman; Martin F. Manalansan, IV; Stephen Vider This essay serves as the introduction to a special issue of GLQ , “Queering the Domestic.” The essay both summarizes the interventions of the essays in this special issue and introduces readers to the concept of queer domesticity...

...Elizabeth Freeman This essay reflects on the contents and the afterlife of a 2007 special issue of GLQ, “Queer Temporalities.” It also describes the process of inventing the GLQ roundtable discussion and writing a manual for how to edit a special issue of the journal. Copyright © 2019 Duke...

...Whitney Monaghan To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of GLQ , this essay explores the significance of the 2007 special issue on queer temporalities. Edited by Elizabeth Freeman, this issue marked queer theory’s distinct turn toward temporality as a critical frame. Its contributors proposed...

...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan This essay revisits “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies” (2016), a special issue coedited by Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel. It considers both the overall aims of the issue, including that of reading the politics of queer and area studies as “coincident...

...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...

..., “Queers Read This! LGBTQ Literature Now” takes seriously how, why, and what queers read. Looking to both Eve Sedgwick’s foundational 1996 special issue of Studies in the Novel , as well as the work of Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Gloria Anzuldua, and other queer writers of color in the 1970s and 1980s...

...Gil Z. Hochberg The introduction to this special issue of GLQ analyzes the intricate and most complex dynamics defining the relationship between what can be called “queer politics” and “the question of Palestine/Israel.” It sets the parameters for the theoretical questions raised by the following...

...Amal Amireh In this afterword I engage the essays of this special issue by highlighting the challenges military occupation, racism, and homophobia pose for discussions of queer issues in the Palestine/Israel context and for Palestinian queer activism. I argue that the visibility/invisibility...

...Marquis Bey; Jesse A. Goldberg Abstract “Queer as in Abolition Now!” introduces the special issue “Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition.” The issue brings together scholars, artists, and writers working at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and radical activist movements...

...Gil Z. Hochberg; Haneen Maikey; Rima; Samira Saraya One of the most important contributions of this special issue of GLQ is the forum for three queer Palestinian activists to speak about the complexity of their identities and politics. In this roundtable conversation, these activists make clear...

...Heather Love This introduction for “Rethinking Sex” frames the contributions of Gayle Rubin to the contemporary field of sexuality studies through a discussion of her 1984 essay “Thinking Sex.” It discusses the 2009 conference that was the basis for this special issue as well as the significance...

...Joshua J. Weiner; Damon Young This special issue considers how queerness constitutes and designates forms of sociality. Specifically, it explores how a utopian, inventive impulse in sexual sociabilities is simultaneously articulated with a dehiscent, corrosive pull away from sociality. An interplay...