...Stephanie D. Clare The out gay subject is the well-adjusted, neoliberal subject. This essay investigates contemporary lesbian and gay coming out narratives, tracing how the “problem” with gay and lesbian identities appears therein not as one’s gender or sexual queerness but as one’s (potential...

... (national, racial, cultural) according to whose terms we conventionally organize ourselves and others. The piece concludes by suggesting what new forms of knowledge can come out of a critically engaged, “postnational” American studies, and in turn out of a “postnational” Latino studies, a still-emerging...

...Summer Kim Lee This article considers how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to the racial performativity of Asian American asociality. What the author calls “Asian American asociality” speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem...

... (Crawford), and a shift toward expressivity as a framework (Musser). Across the issue, newly imagined sites of collective politics come into view as a payoff for working through the stalled-out imaginaries of sexological binarisms. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This content is made...

.... From temporality to spatiality, from progress to egress, a “will to escape,” as I call it, now organizes the practice of Christian liberation.7 Locked up, tied up, and told to shape up, users come to confess, at times plead, that they want out...

.... Processes and Resources of Identity Politics “Coming out”—self-identifying as gay and presenting that identity to the larger world—serves at least three political functions. First, it enables the individual to acknowledge, engage, and counteract the fear and shame of social stigma. Second...

... to have all in your business. Coming out open folks called it getting a “cap through yo’ ass.” (Leno quipped that we talked too much anyway and this would, at least, save us from all that yelling on the sub-way...

... interested in the ways music and dance, sound and the body, might be sites from which to take up the utopian as a mode of critical analysis. Here I am looking at musical and dance movements coming out of Africa: the first is the form developed...

... as home, albeit in different ways. Displacement in queer studies is often configured through the paradigm of sometimes los- ing family and home, coming out, and gaining a new family, community, and home, ones that are aligned...

... of our big intestine pushing along chunks of mush turning brown with dead bacteria, the biles, the slabs of yellow fat. What we call filth, what provokes repugnance outside are things we come upon that resemble what comes out of our bodies or what is inside them...

... mentality” of the 1960s and 1970s that explicitly confronted anti-Black racism across spatial scales. Berger explains the role Jackson played: “Whereas [Eldridge] Cleaver and Malcolm [X] showed that radical politics could come out of prison, Jackson demonstrated that radical politics could develop...

...,” the multitude “must push through Empire to come out the other side.”11 The other side, of course, is so much better. Paradise is another example. The problem is that a multitude capable of such a feat does not exist—or at least not yet...

... as the production worker is limited to his specialized operations, the manager knows the limits of his job and internalizes those limits as personal traits.” 2 The smiling scowl comes out in full force in a passage describing the middle-manager mindset: Middle managers are persons who have little...

... to which I return shortly) might come out and establish their visibility in their respective neighborhoods.22 The cultural codification of gender, which necessarily hinges on a stabilizing typecasting, mirrors how racial/ ethnic categories become sweepingly...

..., will be useful: Aijaz Ahmad, “The Hindutva Weapon,” Frontline 15, no. 11 (23 May–5 June 1998); Vinay Lal, “Coming Out from Gandhi’s Shadow,” Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1998; Gail Omvedt, “The Hin- dutva Bomb,” The Hindu, 20 June 1998; and Kalpana Sharma, “The Hindu...

..., it takes quiet, a pane of glass through which one looks even if the glass is shattered and one looks out onto a scene of devastation. One still needs the distance to look, to let the rhythms come, to make the poem. I think there is a kind of mnemonic torsion necessary to map out a space lit...

... the heteronormative confines of the traditionally defined “home” and “fam- ily,” being “gay” requires some kind of travel, actual or imagined. The most canonical expression of being gay, “coming out of the closet,” is a quintessential articulation of the link between identity and travel...

..., the Johnsonites had expected that the workers coming out of World War II would be con- tinuing the struggle for dignity that was so powerful in the 1930s. Instead, they began chasing after material things. It was at that point...

... lost its virginity,” he was underscoring this fraught relationship between (hetero)sexuality, normality, the nation, and the vio- lations of terrorism. Not surprisingly, then, coming out of this discourse, we find...

... from the standpoint of the overdeveloped world — the series lacks a single protagonist, but one, the transgender hacker Nomi, is widely seen in fan communities as a stand-in for the sibling creators of the series, both of whom have come out in recent decades as transgender women. Self-consciously...