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GLQ (2020) 26 (4): 701–722.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Fintan Walsh This article examines the role of pugilistic gesture and form in queer performance, focusing on Franko B’s Milk & Blood (2015) and Cassils’s Becoming an Image (2012). Walsh considers how pugilism functions as a mode for “working out” queer fights—personal and cultural—that offers...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Howard Chiang In the 1930s, Peking Union Medical College oversaw the most advanced neuropsychiatric unit in China. Li, a married twenty-two-year-old college student, sought treatment there in 1937 for his anxiety disorder. In ten months with therapist Bingham Dai (1899–1996), Li worked out his...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 465–485.
Published: 01 October 2013
... to online forums that play out the enforcements of normativity in the generation of both ruthless anonymous comments and impassioned defenses. Such comments about gender, bodies, and sexualities were the catalyst for the exercise works and are incorporated into their defiant performances of self-realization...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and Word Is Out transform the private space of the home into a decidedly public one. They both open with images of reconfigured domestic spaces that house their respective sub- jects: the former with Jim working out in his apartment, the latter with Nadine Armijo (one of twenty-­six people featured...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (3): 529–560.
Published: 01 June 2020
... in African technologies of queerness that emphasize interdependency and elusiveness. As queer Kenya becomes increasingly out, loud, and sexy, Wainaina’s work serves as a powerful reminder that ambiguity can be theatrical too. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Binyavanga Wainaina queer African...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 365–369.
Published: 01 June 2011
... This text was composed for a gathering held at The University of California, Berkeley, in Barbara Johnson’s memory shortly after her death; we had been invited to read a short passage from her work. 1. Barbara Johnson, “Bringing Out D. A. Miller,” Narrative 10, no. 1 (2002): 3 – 8; D...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 April 2009
... in a way that privileges their long-term well-being over societal norms. They also argue that, while feminist scholars have been critically important in developing the theoretical underpinnings of the intersex rights movement and sometimes in carrying out the day-to-day political work of that movement...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (2): 143–165.
Published: 01 April 2013
... American studies, the queer implications of her work deserve to be brought out — not in order to claim Johnson for the canon of queer theory but to help us rethink what counts as “queer” in the first place. Johnson's work explicitly and implicitly ties queer reading to the figure of astonishment, a kind...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (4): 529–563.
Published: 01 October 2012
.... At its most fundamental level, the actor-­oriented approach involves “recog- nizing the ‘multiple realities’ and diverse social practices of various actors, and requires working out methodologically how to get to grips with these different and often incompatible social worlds.”7 This focus...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (3): 397–439.
Published: 01 June 2009
... writers, came out in 1993 and 1995, respectively.8 Gordimer, however, was the first heterosexual writer to take serious note of this cultural and political shift. Her work should be credited with opening up the panorama of the mainstream South African novel — and the families...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (4): 611–612.
Published: 01 October 2009
... to address how power plays out in graduate school, often in the minute exercises of discipline and learning understood through sexual metaphors. The authors also exhibit a noteworthy interest and investment in popular culture that leads each to consider the larger implications of their intellectual work...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Eben Kirksey Abstract The experiment in China that produced the world's first babies with “edited” DNA comes out of an international research program aimed at producing an HIV cure. An atmosphere of secrecy surrounded this experiment at the edge of the law. Volunteers who signed up...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 5–39.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., and two-spirit activism, and the scholarship that has grown out of that activism. He warns that times may well be getting worse rather than better for this kind of scholarship and activism, and encourages readers to understand the collection as a rallying call to further and more complex and critical work...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (4): 599–610.
Published: 01 October 2010
... that while they do not speak for all Palestinian LGBTQs, and that they do not necessarily agree among themselves on strategies or details (the women's rights approach of Aswat is different from the queer activism of Al-Qaws), they do succeed in laying out the major challenges facing their work...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 97–105.
Published: 01 January 2011
...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...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 321–341.
Published: 01 June 2015
... be discriminatory. If any of the race did, after all, prove to be fit to survive, they would survive — they would be picked out with a sure and automatic justice from the over-­ready condemnation of all their kind.”70 Inconsistencies and gaps remain in Wells’s work where it is unclear...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 477–500.
Published: 01 October 2023
... and the “focus on the family” during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s—in which whiteness was under siege. Taking its cue from Toni Morrison's articulation of the white imaginary and W. E. B. Du Bois's history of the (Black) and white working class, this article looks at representations of queerness...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (2): 183–214.
Published: 01 April 2023
... appropriation of the pink triangle plays out the tensions between representation and abstraction. 16. For catalogs of work by Catherine Opie and Zoe Leonard that shows this oscillation between landscapes, still lives, and portraits, see Blessing and Trotman 2008 and Leonard 2008 . For a valuable...
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GLQ (2018) 24 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and imagination have rarely been recognized within extant discourses of the commons. This introduction sets out differing genealogies of thought within scholarship on the commons and, building on the work of the performance studies scholar José Esteban Muñoz, it asks how, if at all, it is possible to theorize...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 83–112.
Published: 01 January 2017
... , Denmark . ———. 2015 . “Moren er død, moren leve” (“The mother is dead, long live the mother”) . Kvinder, Køn og Forskning , no. 2 : 34 – 48 . Nunokawa Jeff . 1991 . “‘All the Sad Young Men’: AIDS and the Work of Mourning.” In Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories , edited...