...Mel Y. Chen This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the affectivity and relationality—indeed the bonds—of queerness as it is presently theorized. Approaching toxicity in three different modes, I first consider how vulnerability, safety, immunity, threat...

...: spatiality, waste, toxicity , and filth . These analytics, I argue, allow black feminists to consider how black female sexuality is imagined to be rooted in (and perhaps generative of) certain kinds of filthy spaces, particularly the ghetto; how black sexuality is constructed as literally and metaphorically...

... as a “security threat” and the Palestinian's forced cooperation function as pretexts for underlying hidden and forbidden (homoerotic) desire, here exposed as the subtext of a toxic national conflict sealed in heteronormative sexual perceptions of masculinity and its absence. Duke University Press 2010...

.... DOI 10.1215/10642684-4254459 THE ORLANDO(S)CENE Eng- Beng Lim As the ongoing epidemic of toxic masculinity in the United States is spread far and wide by compulsory white nationalism and capitalist thuggery, its systematic legitimation by a Republican White...

..., “In other queer clubs, on other nights, other bodies have fallen victim to the toxic masculinities that imagine violence as the solution to shifts in the status quo that might shake up hierarchies of sex and gender. But on this night, in this club, the target of steroid- fueled...

... Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Dewachi Omar . 2013 . “The Toxicity of Everyday Survival in Iraq.” Jadaliyya . www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/13537/the-toxicity-of-everyday-survival-in-iraq . Massad Joseph A. 2008...

... and small bodies, and can shift as bodies entangle and disentangle spatially. With industrial pollu- tion, lower atmospheric space abounds with plumes of toxic gases (methane, car- bon dioxide, and carbon monoxide) as well as noncarbon by-­products (e.g., nitrous oxide...

... As the ongoing epidemic of toxic masculinity in the United States is spread far and wide by compulsory white nationalism and capitalist thuggery, its systematic legitimation by a Republican White House staffed by birthers and thugs is turn- ing the contagion into a public health threat...

... to languish in proximity to human- made hazards, including toxicity, maiming by police or mili- tias, exposure to environmental lethality, and the incarcerating practices of ongo- ing settler colonialisms. One continuing goal of Puar s work is to challenge liberal categories of discrete minority identities...

... a tentacle-­like shape between transgender and its environments: administrative, aesthetic, cellular, woolly, toxic, oceanic. As Donna Haraway asks in her manifesto for cyborgs, “Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?”3 Oscillat...

... related to normal- ized, toxic antiqueer cultural values (Halberstam 2011; Sedgwick 1990; Wozolek, Wootton, and Demlow 2016). While the toll of this toxicity is paid by queer bodies and beings, the notable dearth of proactive practices for prevention can be under- stood as an (un)intentional explicit...

... of “multiple objects interspersed and in exchange” generate affective and epistemo- logical relations (204, 209). Chen details, in the course of Animacies, how the lead contained in painted toy trains from China triggered a racialized panic; how an ecology of toxic substances is also...

... governed by a logic that forecloses the truth by overdressing vulnerability. Healing through collective truth making is about deep listening and responding to stories with embodied change rather than toxic judgment (Haga 2020 ). Inasmuch as public etiquette reinforces the myth of the disembodied thinker...

... analysis — like bod- ies moving in syncopated and erotic fashion on the dance oor. We invite readers to join us on the dance oor. Not to deny the deadliness of toxic masculinities, racialized violences, or Trumpism writ large. But, rather, to remind us that we must continue...

...—about toxicity and trash, the enclosures produced by property and waste flows, the way the surveillance of Blackness turns Black bodies into matter—charts transversal flights through white supremacy's ecologies (Harney and Moten 2013 ). Proximate to the detritus of property's determinations of matter...

... to be quintessentially sinful and historical. Queerness immediately signals such sin because Baldwin understands just how toxic Western, religious rhetoric, even in its black church form, is for the queer body. Its condemnations produce disastrous results, including successful...

... at the Nanyang Techno- logical University in Fall 2017. He is the author of Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias (2014) and is working on performances of toxic masculinity and queer intoxication in the diminishing US Empire, and Asian megastructures...

... is disidentification. José Esteban Muñoz’s influential formulation seems to resolve Goffman’s “identity ambivalence”: Muñoz holds that disidentification is “a mode of performance whereby a toxic identity is remade and infiltrated by subjects who have been hailed by such identity categories...

... is taught to have a taste for Indians, while the unnamed child in Zitkalaa’s pieces yearns at first for the food of whiteness, becomes herself food, and through that process of being digested understands, too late, the toxicity of the white food she must both prepare and eat...

... , 89 – 111 . New York : International Society for Language Studies . Sexton Jared Yates . 2016 . “ Donald Trump’s Toxic Masculinity .” New York Times , October 16 . nytimes.com/2016/10/13/opinion/donald-trumps-toxic-masculinity.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 . Sowards Stacey K...