... be appropriated by the state, I contemplate how we might read differently to find alternative ways to analyze family-centered politics that enable us to “disidentify” with the state and delegitimate its monopoly on violence. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 “If I Turn into a Boy, I Don’t Think I Want...

... girls didn't understand the allure of holes. You were sometimes wrong. We know something about slipping in and out of cells, animate and still. Like Gretel I want to map my trip into the dense forest of you, dropping these words so I can get back out. But I've read her story (so many stories now...

..., we take an explicitly reparative position toward the paranoia that the text models, and toward the queer encounters it records? This approach involves seeking empathy away from where the text directs us, giving Rousseau a version of what he wants while challenging his tyrannical program that sets out...

...Beenash Jafri Abstract What can narratives of suicide tell us about diasporic and Indigenous relationships to the white settler state? This article engages relational critique to examine trans/femme/bisexual South Asian Canadian filmmaker Vivek Shraya's short film I want to kill myself ( 2017...

... based on nonfictional experiences. And it just completely opened my eyes, my heart, my everything. I was stunned at how quickly I felt myself doing all that self-reflection and personal growth. The honesty of their writing inspired me to in turn want to be truthful in what I wanted to share. I also...

... must want a lot. you don’t have to tell me, we all do. you want so much, your want is like the color purple in the night sky or wind forcing its way through a closed window or a dancer spinning a hundred pirouettes, breathcutting & imperious. you want something impossibly possible only here...

... at people for not being there, or not being there as much as she wanted, or not giving her feedback, much as she loathed the word, or, conversely, giv- ing her feedback, regurgitating what she didn’t want to see...

..., if the world doesn t end first) that allowed me to see myself and my surroundings with new eyes. I do not ever want to stop feeling like an imposter in US academe, even as I acknowledge that this culture is also mine. It has been over two decades, after all, since I first stepped foot in and began waging invis...

... of the first questions the department head, Elizabeth Kennedy, asked me was who I wanted to invite to be my official mentor. I chose Monique Wittig. It was not an obvious choice. Wittig was hardly someone whose time at Arizona had included firsthand experiences with making one’s way to and through...

... it is fitting to celebrate the end of our collaborative relationship with GLQ here with the promise of a new collaboration. Therefore, we want to use this, our final issue, to introduce Kara Keeling, the new editor of the Moving Image Review, to our readers. She actively collaborated with us...

...., “If I were a man, I would fart and burp in public and treat every- one badly or, conversely, Emma Bovary–style, they imagined being the sort of men they wanted to be courted by but had apparently never encountered. (Among other things, the assignment provided...

... it’s something that we sliould talk about, otherwise you get this . . . really in a way it’s what Gloria is fighting against. It came up again with our recent Marivaux production [The Came ofLoz7e and Chance], where we didn’t want to say out loud, “We’re doing an interesting revival of a rare...

... together here, after all, is what and how we want; but since in many ways what we want is simultaneously here and wanting-and since, to the extent that we find it here, it is subject to wants that may not include us-might we not say that the condition of wanting, as overdetermined...

... the decisions we made about Cynthia’s health, both mental and physical. Over the years, my dad had developed Alzheimer’s disease. It seems to have lingered in an early stage for quite some time. This complicated the decision making, for we wanted to include her, but we were uncertain how much she...

... come to constitute the audience that they fantasize as already existent: a reader re-cognizes stereotypes at the behest of Yoshikawa or learns to read their ambivalence by reading Bascara. If so, we might always want to choose work that imagines...

....                                                                              xxx i want my friends to love me,            but how does one do that? i want them to never say mija , assume i have somewhere to go when my jeva kicks me out, or that the mother that gives me the strongest embrace in the park, knows there's no continuity between her photos...

...-between Franco-American and French-Canadian, anglo- phone and francophone, United States and Canada, the university and the 66 community,” literary studies and the social sciences. My audience included people in all these categories, but I especially wanted to speak to those intel- lectuals...

...- tasies, mistruths, or misunderstandings that circulate around a place as it is con- ceived by outsiders. Makgano Mamabolo describes this tension: “People want to essentialize Africa: Africa is poor, Africa is sick, Africa is weak, poor Africa. Now you have a new narrative...