... of butchqueens who've discovered that they were really trans. They all thanked me for bringing it out of them. So yes. I've brought several people out to the light. It's not just the incarcerated queens that you've brought out into the light, Kitty Jayne. Your ways of seeing me resound deeply within...

... to economic marginality. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Critical Bonds “His Way” Heather Love on D. A. Miller D. A. Miller’s Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style opens with a description of Austen’s appeal to “all of us who read [her] early.”1 Her “thrillingly inhuman” style held out...

...” of contemporary African, British, and African American dandy artists. Through- out the book, Miller is interested in the way the iconography of black dandyism travels across time and space, creating spectacular, hybrid performances of race, gender, and identity. How are we...

...Sarah E. Chinn Duke University Press 2003 FEELING HER WAY Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch Sarah E. Chinn The Problem of Skin How can we talk about how lesbians have sex with each other? This is no trivial question: if sexual connection with other women is at the core...

... University Press, 1997. xiv + 234 pp. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom Beth Mintz and Esther Rothblum, eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. 298 pp.$78.99 cloth, $24.95 paper Duke University Press 2002 Book Review THE EASY WAY OUT Gays and Lesbians in Academia...

... practitioners’ awareness of the more subtle and minute exercises in sex and learning: between teacher and student or in the “selling” of oneself in job markets. In a lesser way, race and class also become a part of this in-between equation. Finally, as students of media...

... the same body? The event of colonization has impacted us in a way that cannot be turned back, with lamentable byproducts like the notion of communities isolated from civili- GLQ 27:3 DOI 10.1215/10642684-8994042 © 2021 by Duen Sacchi, Dana Galán / David Aruquipa, Ochy Curiel, and Marlene Wayar 330 GLQ...

...Stephen Dillon Abstract In this essay, the author examines June Jordan's poetic invocations of violence in order to consider their implications for future abolitionist thought. Jordan uses violence in her poetry to envision ways of feeling and being that make the present impossible and unimaginable...

...Benjamin Kahan; Greta LaFleur This introduction maps the ways in which sexual scientific thought circulated during the fin de siècle, tracing the interconnections between and breaks in the global circuits of sexological thought and how this circuitry continues to structure sexuality in the present...

...Juno Jill Richards This study follows the oceanic routes of female migrant laborers as a way to reconsider the geographies of queer theory through the colonial port city. In so doing, the author highlights feminized forms of migrant labor, including sex work and care work, as a central facet...

... scholarly debates over sexual identities and practices in the Arab world, also reinforce this narrative of impossibility in a way that makes little room for the diverse lived experiences of gay Palestinians. In order to move beyond this narrative, Paul rereads these documentaries with an emphasis...

..., and self-birth, in ways that challenged long-established notions of queer identities and scholarship. The present article adopts the trope of lightning strikes to consider the ways that Barad’s Frankensteinesque approach has reshaped and extended scholars’ approaches to queer theories and methodologies...

... in descriptions of the district as home to a way of life or culture, variously described as “gay” or “queer,” generally accepted if not celebrated by its wider community. Drawing on audio recordings featuring their collector, Kewpie, and remaining attentive to the differing and at times contradictory ways Kewpie...

... in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina to (1) understand the ways in which poor whiteness solidifies through queer moments of “bad” sex; and (2) reveal the ways in which “bad sex” retards white subjectivity/progressivity. The racialization of whiteness was, in this context, a queer process in which...

... and 23andMe, the 2019 study concluded that “many loci with individually small effects,” which are spread across the entire genome, contribute in statistically significant but highly unreliable ways to an individual's sexual behavior. The study was thus greeted by geneticists, science journalists, and even...

... subject positions that are distinct from the identities promoted and encouraged by activist lesbian organizations in Indonesia. In this article I examine the ways both lesbian activists in Jakarta and individuals in Padang selectively appropriate circuits of queer knowledge to make sense of their own...