For those interested in thinking the humanities through the analytical categories of sex and sexuality.
Karsten Schubert deposited Umkämpfte Kunstfreiheit – ein Differenzierungsvorschlag in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
„Political Correctness“, „Identitätspolitik“ und „Cancel Culture“ werden heutzutage überwiegend als Waffen von Konservativen eingesetzt, um ihre Privilegien gegen emanzipative Neuregelungen zu verteidigen. Solche Neuregelungen als Einschränkung der Kunst- und Meinungsfreiheit zu kritisieren ist deshalb meist falsch. Tatsächlich tragen „Politic…[Read more]
Karsten Schubert deposited Queere und schwule Theorie (Foucault Rezeption) in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Foucault bildet eine zentrale Grundlage der queeren und schwulen Theorie, die sich seit den späten 1980er Jahren insbesondere in den USA entwickelt hat. Seine Macht- und Subjekttheorie ist die Basis für eine nicht- essentialistische Analyse von Sexualität und für die Kritik ihrer normierenden Wirkung, die Foucault selbst in Der Wille zum Wis…[Read more]
Karsten Schubert deposited Queerness and Liberal Law: The Tension between Emancipation and Naturalization. Comment on Elisabeth Holzleithner in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
Thank you very much for this excellent presentation. In my comment I aim to render more explicit some fundamental tensions or contradictions between legal emancipation and queerness, which are at stake in your description of the legal frameworks for the protection of queers. It thereby reopens the question of the strategic choice between appealing…[Read more]
Karsten Schubert deposited PrEP als demokratische Biopolitik. Zur Kritik der biopolitischen Repressionshypothese – oder: die pharmazeutische Destigmatisierung des Schwulseins. in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
PrEP (Präexpositionsprophylaxe) ist ein relativ neues Mittel zur Prävention von HIV-Infektionen. HIV negative Menschen nehmen antivirale Medikamente ein, die verhindern, dass der Kontakt mit dem Virus zu einer Infektion führt. Im Gegensatz zum Kondomgebrauch basiert dieses Präventionsverfahren auf Medikamenten und nicht auf einer Ver…[Read more]
Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29–12:20 and 20:1–18 in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia Serano calls gendering. Through this article, we see how the third-party accounts of Sarai in…[Read more]
Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.
Louise Barrière started the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
LGBTI & QUEER ARTS, CULTURES, ACTIVISMS CONFERENCE (Metz, France)
Conference dates: 11th and 12th June 2020
CfP Deadline: 28th February
[Deadline might be subject to extension due to an ongoing strike in French universities. I will inform you if this is the case, but we recommend to get your abstract in as soon as possible in any case.]
Conference…[Read more]Hannah Gillard deposited Que(e)rying Antiwork Politics: Queer Identities, Agency, Affect and the Normalcy of Work in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
People’s relationships to paid work are many and varied. For some it is an important indicator of their identity, while for others it is a form of inescapable drudgery, boredom, or a place of exploitation. For those under- and unemployed, this unbearable state of boredom might itself be an aspiration. Current literature on queer identities and…[Read more]
Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]
Kenji Khozoei deposited Decolonising the Commons: Fugitivity and Future Planning in End Times in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
They say the global proliferation of colonial and neoliberal (ir)rationalities and the techno-managerial enclosure of the ‘commons’ (Hardt & Negri 2000; Harvey 2004) has resulted in a ‘foreclosure of politics’, prompting calls for a renewed technocultural hegemony for a post-capitalist future (Srnicek & Williams 2015) or a return to the revolut…[Read more]
Karsten Schubert deposited The Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a relatively new drug-based HIV prevention technique and an important means to lower the HIV risk of gay men who are especially vulnerable to HIV. From the perspective of biopolitics, PrEP inscribes itself in a larger trend of medicalization and the rise of pharmapower. This article reconstructs and evaluates…[Read more]
Karsten Schubert deposited Sexuelle und geschlechtliche Selbstbestimmung als Menschenrecht in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Diskriminierung und Menschenrechtsverletzungen gegenüber LSBTI-Personen werden heute international thematisiert und angeprangert – ein vergleichsweise neues Phänomen. Dennoch tragen die herrschenden Normen von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit und Heterosexualität weiterhin zur Diskriminierung bei: So sind gleichgeschlechtliche Partnerschaften in fast alle…[Read more]
Karsten Schubert deposited Langer Weg zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung. Der Schutz von LSBTI durch die Vereinten Nationen in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Menschenrechtsverletzungen aufgrund sexueller Orientierung und Geschlechtsidentität (SOGI) wurden auf internationaler Ebene lange Zeit kaum zur Kenntnis genommen. Doch seit einigen Jahren wird dem Thema in den Vereinten Nationen breiterer Raum eingeräumt. Die Yogyakarta-Prinzipien und eine Studie des Amtes des Hohen Kommissars für Me…[Read more]
Kyle Frackman deposited “Du bist Nummer 55”: Girls’ Education, Mädchen in Uniform, and Social Responsibility in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Christa Winsloe’s Mädchen in Uniform texts offer a means to examine the role of education in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German society while also exemplifying the genre of boarding school literature. This article provides an overview of educational debates in Prussia and the German Empire in the second half of the nineteenth ce…[Read more]
Eileen Joy deposited Working Darkly and Beautifully at the Bottom of Our Game: Failing, Fragility, and Making Things in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This essay argues, through various personal anecdotes, for a university in which our work and lives would turn away from impersonal professionalism and more towards a praxis where we would recognize better, as Brantley Bryant has written, that our “very strength, our very expertise, comes from darkness, indeterminacy, unmarketably disastrous…[Read more]
Eileen Joy deposited This Is Not My (or, Our Time), so Please Take Ecstasy With Me: The Necessity of Generous Reading in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
A plea for more generous modes of reading each other’s scholarship in order to arrive at a University that values productive dissensus within a framework of shared endeavor and solidarity. The essay also argues for new relational modes in which personal, professional and other identities would be rejected in favor of cruising each other’s thought and work.
Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
“Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]
Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]
Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
This essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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