... for transformations in our public and personal lives. It is the implications of these transformations for the future of queer studies that we hope to explore here. NEW DIRECTIONS IN MULTIETHNIC, RACIAL, AND GLOBAL QUEER STUDIES 125 One Step Global, Two Steps Back? Race, Gender...

...Chris Straayer; Thomas Waugh Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two Critics Speak Out As the second installment of our triptych of roundtables on queer film and video festivals worldwide, we offer here statements by eight...

... hegemonic interventions for queer people of color in order to build viable theories for Native communities. Drawing on the Cherokee basketry tradition of doubleweave, in which two independent yet interwoven designs result, this essay asserts the necessity of Two-Spirit critiques that centralize Native...

... of the social order. If the film is obsessed with the number two, it is equally obsessed with all the ways in which this even number can prove to be odd or strange or queer, as exemplified from the beginning by the male strangers coupled by its title. Such is the force of the film’s obsession with the number...

...Ruth Vanita Duke University Press 2005 BORN OF TWO VAGINAS Love and Reproduction between Co-Wives in Some Medieval Indian Texts Ruth Vanita Fourteenth-century devotional texts from Bengal recount different versions of the story of the hero Bhagiratha’s birth to two queens who...

..., along with the edition actually consulted; the page numbers of references to two-spirits in these primary sources appear in parentheses. Alarcón , Fernando “Report of Alarcón's Expedition, 1540.” Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540-1542 . Ed. Hammond, George P., and Agapito Rey...

...Jodie Medd Duke University Press 2006 “Patterns of the Possible” National Imaginings and Queer Historical (Meta)Fictions in Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys Jodie Medd  — When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You...

...Lisa Tatonetti This essay examines the construction of Two-Spirit identity in three contemporary narrative films, Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes , and The Business of Fancydancing , arguing that, despite each story's focus on a queer Native protagonist, by their conclusions each film fractures Two...

...Jessica Stacey Abstract This article suggests that we might find a new way to address two stubborn questions regarding Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions through a single shift in perspective. These two questions are: What can we make of the antipathy that readers often feel toward this text...

...Erica Rand “Court and Sparkle” looks at effects, ideas, and diversions in discourses around gender authenticity in sport through two 2010 controversies. One involved Kye Allums, who came out as transgender right before his third season playing NCAA Division I basketball for George Washington...

...Ela Przybylo; Danielle Cooper This article works on two axes: first, employing queer archiving to push at the parameters of what might “count” as asexuality, and second, addressing feminist and queer inattentiveness to asexuality through rethinking queerness from asexual perspectives. We argue...

...Michael Nebeling Petersen; Charlotte Kroløkke; Lene Myong Transnational surrogacy and the reproductive practices it entails raise interesting questions about genetic relatedness, kinship formation, and the stratification of reproductive labor and rights. This article discusses two high-profile...

... made to transforming scholarly understanding of medieval culture over the previous two decades. Within the special issue, one contribution was by a man: Allen J. Frantzen's provocatively titled “When Women Aren't Enough,” in which Frantzen charted the shift from the “women in history” approach...

... and Narragansett words. Appropriations from Williams's lexicon introduce the figure of translation into the poem and also allow Stevens to create echoes between present and past. The poem concerns two types of contact: contact as historical phenomenon in the Americas and contact as contemporary sexuality. Stevens...

...Hoda El Shakry Elle Flanders's 2005 documentary film Zero Degrees of Separation subtly weaves together two seemingly distinct narratives: the settlement of Palestine in the 1950s by a hopeful generation of pioneering Jewish immigrants and the challenges of gay Israeli-Palestinian relationships...

... between these two trajectories, we argue, has informed queer theory from its inception. We develop the concept of queer bondsto describe relations radically in excess of humanist and neoliberal accounts of the individual, suggesting queer theory has always been a theory of queer bonds. If sex...

...Joanne Meyerowitz This article puts Gayle Rubin's 1984 article “Thinking Sex” in dialogue with Earl Lind's 1918 book Autobiography of an Androgyne . Rooted in different historical moments, the two works address distinct debates about the nature, politics, and ethics of sexual and gender variance...

... heteroaggrandizing scale conceivable. Each work thus contrives its own ways to diminish, even to oust, elements of the Jesus story that could be seen to challenge sexual orthodoxies and normative familial arrangements. In its treatment of these two recent popular religious blockbusters, this essay extends across...

...Ann Cvetkovich; Allyson Mitchell The GLQ Gallery features Allyson Mitchell's 2010 installation for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge . In a plus-sized version of a sculpture gallery, two large ladies, in luminescent gold and silver, face...