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GLQ (2021) 27 (1): 61–84.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., democratic reform. In surrendering to the seemingly antidemocratic weight of divine queen-kingship, sarimbavy mediums became “possessed” by political organizations irreducible to the modern nation-state and its colonial genealogies and, furthermore, produced human-spirit relationalities that thwarted Western...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 521–559.
Published: 01 October 2015
... women, men he calls magays (a Swahilization
of English “gays and spirit possession rituals that involve cross-dressing. He
also uses English code switching, both indexing affiliation with a globalized “gay”
community and allowing him to draw on the sexual connotations of certain English
terms...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 January 2022
... introduced the concept of “possession-performance” to account for the Haitian spirits’ standardized (and often gendered) characters regardless of whom they possess, while J. Lorand Matory's ( 2005 ) scholarship has explained the sacramental cross-dressing of male Yoruba priests as a sanctioned transgression...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 91–107.
Published: 01 January 2023
... ). As Omis'eke Tinsley ( 2018 ) explains, Mildred/Dred's theorization of the Haitian roots of their drag practice subjects the term fluid —a gender identity included in contemporary queer taxonomies—to the torque of the Vodoun ontology of spirit possession as a means of gendered becoming. Indeed, Mildred/Dred's...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 253–284.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., to provide a positive alternative to the unacceptable term berdache: Two-Spirit
Extermination of the Joyas 279
people are “Aboriginal people who possess the sacred gifts of the female-male spirit,
which exists in harmony with those of the female...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 243–252.
Published: 01 April 2010
... survival. In “Puo'winue'l Prayers: Readings from North America's First Transtextual Script,” I continue this conversation while engaging the script from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective. Duke University Press 2010 (Mi'kmaq/Acadian and Irish) (Cherokee) Puo’winue’l...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 353–384.
Published: 01 June 2022
... treasured possessions, long stored in their home, over to the Southwest Museum. Nabor's means of livelihood was most unusual—he worked as a sculptor in circus sideshows! Taking a piece of wet clay, he would model in a few minutes the head of an elephant. This he would show to the audience, then flop...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 457–481.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick This essay, written in 1976–77, is concerned primarily with James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” which was published in 1976. The poem tells of many nights spent by Merrill and his partner, David Jackson, in communication with a spirit named Ephraim, whose messages...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 January 2015
... abstraction's hidden truth. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Karl Marx Rob Halpern abstraction Visceral Abstractions
Sianne Ngai
“the spirit and the beef”
—Rob Halpern, Music for Porn
Eating Face
Barbara Johnson opens Persons and Things with a memorable anecdote about
her...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 565–594.
Published: 01 October 2012
...” piety may also entail other cultural traditions such as West African
spirit possession: in a narrative dictated to “a young lady,” James Gronniosaw, a
former slave in New York, “saw (or thought I saw) light inexpressible dart down
from heaven upon me, and shone around me for the space of a minute...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 October 2012
... pp.
Queer Indigenous Studies is a collective endeavor by scholars, activists, and artists
who are Native and/or queer, Two-Spirit (the 2 in GLBTQ2), or GLBT-identified.
The collection rightfully demands readers approach the colonial archive from a
Native perspective and argues clearly...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 618–620.
Published: 01 October 2012
... and/or queer, Two-Spirit (the 2 in GLBTQ2), or GLBT-identified.
The collection rightfully demands readers approach the colonial archive from a
Native perspective and argues clearly that sexuality, including queerness, is a
construction of settler colonialism: heterosexism prevalent among contemporary...
Journal Article
GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 621–623.
Published: 01 October 2012
... and/or queer, Two-Spirit (the 2 in GLBTQ2), or GLBT-identified.
The collection rightfully demands readers approach the colonial archive from a
Native perspective and argues clearly that sexuality, including queerness, is a
construction of settler colonialism: heterosexism prevalent among contemporary...
Journal Article
GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 624–626.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., and Literature
Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and
Scott Lauria Morgensen, eds.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. vi + 246 pp.
Queer Indigenous Studies is a collective endeavor by scholars, activists, and artists
who are Native and/or queer, Two-Spirit (the 2 in GLBTQ2...
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GLQ (2006) 12 (1): 27–59.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., and self-
possession.”26 In essence, the schools are to orchestrate and manage the process
of courting, forbidding virtually all communication between boys and girls unless
it is superintended by teachers and matrons,27 and there is little to no concern
about relations among...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 2018
... (lack of illocutionary intent and feeling) occur.
Insincerities emerge when one does not possess the correct intention associated
with a performative statement (e.g., one states “I pronounce you husband and wife”
without the requisite intentions in stating the phrase...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 171–173.
Published: 01 January 2009
... produce “kindred specters,” presences that —
by challenging notions of mortality and immortality, body and spirit, life and
death — trouble “conventional” American conceptions of kinship (16). Reading
Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and William...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 January 2009
... produce “kindred specters,” presences that —
by challenging notions of mortality and immortality, body and spirit, life and
death — trouble “conventional” American conceptions of kinship (16). Reading
Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and William...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 January 2009
... produce “kindred specters,” presences that —
by challenging notions of mortality and immortality, body and spirit, life and
death — trouble “conventional” American conceptions of kinship (16). Reading
Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and William...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 January 2009
...
and striking: all of these figures produce “kindred specters,” presences that —
by challenging notions of mortality and immortality, body and spirit, life and
death — trouble “conventional” American conceptions of kinship (16). Reading
Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Woman, Toni...
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