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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 58–64.
Published: 01 May 2016
... as a transmasculine and transfeminist person has been in an almost exclusively bio-woman feminist space. What does trans presence mean in fiercely antitrans spaces? What can the power of Audre Lorde's erotic do in transforming feminist communities toward transfeminist power? Copyright © 2016 by Duke University...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 598–604.
Published: 01 November 2020
... profile: Figure 2. Excerpt of SCRUFF profile, unknown user, 2019. In these situations, we see Lou Sullivan (b. 1951, Milwaukee, d. 1991, San Francisco) facilitating an erotic encounter. In “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power,” Audre Lorde 1 ( 1993 : 54) describes the erotic...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 211–221.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to extract the field of the possible. Joy, we may say, has one gamble: to grasp this lacking presence we call body. When Lorde speaks of joy, there is an evocation of the erotic as differentiated modalities of speaking linked to body as differentiated in its substance. However, one grasps...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (3): 277–282.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., “Debris and Desire: Negotiating Erotic Spaces in Southwest China,” begins at night, in Kunming, China, amid piles of demolition debris that make evident rapid gentrification attempts, to consider the ways that temporality, transgender networks, and affect become constitutive of Southwest China's...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 2022
... when she places it alongside her cisgender experience of pregnancy and childbirth) or earlier autotheoretical works like Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Touching Feeling . With its explicit approach to erotics, Reverse Cowgirl is at home with autotheory and critical...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 February 2020
... and racialized world order. In her fine, earlier book Thiefing Sugar, Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature ( 2010 ), Tinsley lyrically explored the rich tradition of erotic relations between women in the poetry and prose of Dutch-, English-, and French-speaking Caribbean women writers, a theme...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 426–448.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and limitations of what Audre Lorde ( 2007 : 53, 57) names “erotic knowledge”—a notion of the erotic and erotic experience as a distinctly feminine source of “power and information” and a “lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence.” Ultimately, he indexes an erotic knowledge that provides...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 February 2018
... with Sharon Bridgforth's The love conjure/blues Text Installation , a haunting and powerful multivocal “biomythography” ( Lorde 1982 )of spiritual, political, social, and sexual resistance and resilience by Black ancestors who offer a “wealth of knowledge and experience that extends back indefinitely in time...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
... This was a highly eroticized and gendered form of union, but for revivalists in Whitefield's tradition, Christ was also represented in highly feminized erotic formulations, particularly those expressed by Moravian pietists like Nikolaus von Zinzendorf. These early Moravians sought to experience intimate communion...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 481–490.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Alexandra can dream toward Toyland because she will never truly reach it, though, as L. H. Stallings ( 2015 : 211) reminds us in Funk the Erotic , “It is only in recognizing one's mythical status that the process of making inventive futures can begin.” Alongside freedom dreams, Kai Green's deployment...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (4): 620–634.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and pronouns are a form of poetry—following Audre Lorde's articulation—read into the world to give it new shape. In trans naming practices and poetry, self-indulgences are also demands made of another, a new name or unexpected pronoun asking for an affirmative repetition, a performative reflection: mirror...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 501–516.
Published: 01 November 2014
... production, and I want to make a connection here between Stryker's vision and Audre Lorde's ( 1984 : 53) understanding of love, joy, and the erotic as knowledge production, as a “source of power and information within our lives,” and anger, which she figured similarly as “loaded with information and energy...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (2): 164–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
... is not a high-security prison, not one that houses drug lords or high-profile offenders, in an all-encompassing gore capitalism it is not unreasonable to assert that the masculinities that dwell in such a space recall what Valencia terms “ endriago ” subjects, a monstrous subjectivity born out of a gore...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 48–57.
Published: 01 May 2016
... write out of need, for some of us, this is not a luxury, as Lorde said. Now, after so many years of taking them, I realize that in these pills there is a home for me, these pills, and all the changes they've brought to my body and life, have brought me to a place of commitment to building a home...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (3): 327–348.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and three hours and took place in locations chosen by each individual. I also analyzed trans-inclusive practices from observational data I documented through field notes. My analysis is informed by feminist standpoint (Haraway 1988 ) and intersectionality (Lorde [1984] 2007 ; Collins 1993 ; Crenshaw...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 427–444.
Published: 01 August 2020
...-already be where “the positionality of subterranean and submersed thought” (Snorton 2017 : 197) attends to “the nameless so it can be thought” (Lorde 1984 : 37). For black people, the trans*ness and queerness of our relation to gendered categories not only animates our past but is what makes “carrying...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 297–314.
Published: 01 August 2019
... lenses as a means of flight for the khwaja siras—from the limitations of the body, the troubled and bloody land, the shackles of the worldly lords, from Muslim orthodoxy, and from daily persecution. Khwaja sira displays of piety and the powers to bestow blessings and curses do not stay...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... Riley Snorton's concepts of captivity and fugitivity, Meyers argues in favor of establishing bodily autonomy oppositional to the “cis gaze.” Grounded in the work of Dean Spade, Suzanne Kessler, and Audre Lorde, Jennifer Yusin's contribution emphasizes justice with intersex and trans* joy. Yusin...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 239–265.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of “polymorphous and ‘undifferentiated’ erotic disposition” with “transsexuality” (221). However, Metcalfe argues that this primordial transsexuality is not an origin story for current transgender identification because it does not explain how, from this state of openness and plurality, fixed identities emerge...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (2): 243–265.
Published: 01 May 2017
...)woman.” On the other hand, she celebrates the love, desire, and pleasure that become possible when masculinity is untangled from normative gender expectations. These possibilities blossom in an erotic scene between McDonald and a female stud. She narrates, “Me, the girl who was penis obsessed...
