For those interested in thinking the humanities through the analytical categories of sex and sexuality.
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Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
This is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).
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Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
In this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.
Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Like other Eastern Bloc countries, East Germany sought to control even its citizens’ leisure time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of making it useful or at least not subversive to state interests. Certain hobbies, like amateur photography, found support from the state in the form of increased access to equipment and supplies. Other s…[Read more]
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Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Focusing on rural white communities in the early twentieth century, this article examines how disability, queerness, and economic estrangement were intertwined in American eugenic assessments of the “unfit.” In doing so, it attends to the knotty relations of power by which such communities were simultaneously adjudged deviant and bestowed with the…[Read more]
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Gennady Shkliarevsky deposited SETTING RIGHT LGBTQ RIGHTS in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
In the current social and political turmoil, few issues are more divisive and cause more controversy than issues related to the rights of sexual minorities and gender dissidents. The polarizing impact of these issues is really astounding given the size of these two groups. Explanations for this divisiveness of LGBTQ rights focus on either the…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited पत्रकारिता और पुस्तक प्रकाशन में नैतिकता का सवाल एक पत्र in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
यह पत्र नई दिल्ली से प्रकाशित फारवर्ड प्रेस नामक द्विभाषी पत्रिका और पुस्तक प्रकाशन संस्थान के मालिक को लिखा गया था। यह पत्रिका वर्ष 2011 से 2016 के बीच अपने तार्किक तेवर और दलित, आदिवासी व अन्य पिछड़े वर्गों की हिमायत करने के कारण चर्चित रही थी। पत्रिका ने अन्य अनेक कामों के साथ इस दौरान हिंदू मिथकों का दलित-बहुजन नजरिए से पुर्नपाठ प्रस…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Sexuelle Befreiung und neue queere Solidarität durch PrEP in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Politikwissenschaftler und Sozialphilosoph Karsten Schubert beleuchtet den Zusammenhang von Sexualität und schwuler Politik und fragt, welche Art von Politik in welcher Situation der HIV-Pandemie begünstigt beziehungsweise verhindert wurde. Dazu erläutert er zwei Thesen
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Improbable Modes of Being in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This mini-essay was published as part of a “dossier” of authors discussing various forms of “queer inhumanisms.” In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault’s 1981 interview, “Friendship as a Way of Life.” These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited All That Remains Unnoticed, I Adore: Spencer Reese’s Addresses in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece’s “addresses” in his book “The Clerk’s Tale: Poems” (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson’s work on the “apostrophe” in her book chapter “Toys R Us,” in her book “Persons and Things” (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman’s…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Brauchen wir Political Correctness? Ein politisches Streitgespräch in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Für ein Gespräch über die Themen Political Correctness, Identitätspolitik, Streitkultur und die Rolle der politischen Bildung kamen im Juli 2021 Saba-Nur Cheema von der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank und Dr. Karsten Schubert von der Universität Freiburg in einem Zoom-Raum zusammen. Die Fragen stellten Prof. Dr. Beate Rosenzweig und Petra Barz, beide…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Konstruktivistische Identitätspolitik. Warum Demokratie partikulare Positionierung erfordert in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Identity politics is subject to similar critiques in contemporary public debate and political theory. A central topos of this critique is that identity politics is essentializing: it fixes subjects to their social position and resorts to a politics of
particularity that leads to divisions in national citizenship and democratic discourse (the…[Read more] -
Karsten Schubert deposited A New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of Homonormativity in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Gay men have been severely affected by the AIDS crisis, and gay subjectivity, sexual ethics, and politics continue to be deeply influenced by HIV to this day. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new, drug-based HIV prevention technique, that allows disentangling gay sex from its widespread, 40 yearlong association with illness and death. This…[Read more]
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Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
“Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive” analyzes the archive story of a queer, crip, wheelchair-using researcher at a U.S. archive. The article considers the archive as a material site where disability studies and disability history are practised; crip time and crip knowledge; the experience of feeling out of sorts; and the tension between the…[Read more]
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Angelos Bollas deposited A critical discussion of inclusive approaches to sexualities in ELT in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
The aim of this article is to challenge heteronormative as well as homonormative practices in English language teaching. In doing so, the paper demonstrates that both complete absence of LGBTQI+ references in ELT materials, as well as recent attempts to provide more inclusive approaches to materials design and classroom practices, can be…[Read more]
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Angelos Bollas deposited Masculinities on the Side: An Exploration of the Function of Homosexism in Maintaining Hegemonic Masculinities and Sexualities in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Following the work of Hellman, this paper examines homosexism (the stigmatisation of non-penetrative sexual activities of men who have sex with men as non-sexual practices) in relation to hegemony, masculinity, and sexuality theories. In doing so, it discusses the function of sides, men who have sex with men but do not engage in penetrative sexual…[Read more]
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Angelos Bollas deposited ‘Literature as Activism – From Entertainment to Challenging Social Norms: Michael Nava’s Goldenboy (1988) in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
The aim of this article is to examine how Michael Nava appropriates the conventions of Detective/Crime Fiction to engage in artivism, whereby art is used to challenge sexual and ethnic social oppression and inequality. By providing an analysis of the heteronormative conventions of the Detective and Crime Fiction genre, the article focuses on the…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Christian Roots of Critique. How Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh Sheds New Light on the Concept of Freedom and the Genealogy of the Modern Critical Attitude in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Finally published 34 years after his death, Foucault’s book Confessions of the Flesh sheds new light on the debate about freedom and power that shaped the reception of his works. Many contributors to this debate argue that Foucault’s theory of power did not allow for freedom in the ‘genealogical phase,’ but that he corrected himself and presented…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Umkämpfte Kunstfreiheit – ein Differenzierungsvorschlag in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months 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]
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