Knowledge Commons | LGBTQ Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/lgbtq-studies/ Activity feed for the group, LGBTQ Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:48:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6208fda883aacdfb75d8c6741ddc0277 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884634/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:53 -0400 Since 2023, the UK government's response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 f70af41f7d9ccfeff8ded1a940ad2dfd Angelos Bollas deposited Hegemonic Monosexuality in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866348/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:09:15 -0500 Recent scholarly work has focused on the erasure and mistreatment of bisexuality in histories of sexuality. Such erasure is not only observed in academic work but also in the lived experiences of people who identify as plurisexuals. The present paper brings together studies on bisexuality, hegemony, and sexual politics to explain the discursively…[Read more]

]]> 0 10b45eb0e71aaa78ea3000bde89aff94 Angelos Bollas deposited Viral representations: It’s a Sin in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866336/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:53 -0500 Belonging to the retrovision genre, It’s a Sin (2021) dramatizes the early years of the pandemic. Audiences are shown what reality was like before and immediately after the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. It narrates the transition from a sex-positive era where non-heterosexual people were standing up for their freedom to love, have sex and enjoy life to a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e6b073852f8b5b50b122b41d30b402 Angelos Bollas deposited Men, Sides, and Homosexism: A Small-Scale Empirical Study of the Lived Experiences of Men Who Identify as Sides in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866335/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:49 -0500 The present study contributes to recent scholarship on homosexism and side sexualities by providing empirical evidence that supports stigmatizing societal responses to non-penetrative sexual practices among men who have sex with men as well as to those engaging in such practices. The study provides a close reading of two scenes of the series…[Read more]

]]> 0 19b75ccfa3c63c5e327ae5ada13b9587 Angelos Bollas deposited A framework toward inclusive practices in EFL: The example of LGBTQI+ identities in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866334/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:44 -0500 Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of all educational reforms taking place at this moment around the world. However, the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) industry has not yet followed through. This chapter focuses on the inclusion of LGBTQI+ references in EFL materials as an example of inclusive practice but aims to be adaptable…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2abd5d89046b8dbec700ea605c511a7 Angelos Bollas deposited Homoterrorism: Definition, Application, Subversion in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866333/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:38 -0500 On Friday, September 21, 2018, news reports on Greek corporate media announced the death of a man who had allegedly attempted to rob a jewellery store. The media announcement was accompanied by video footage in which two civilians were shown violently attacking the alleged thief while the latter was attempting to escape the jewellery store. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd7b593a26770dc1ea3d9bce6fe609aa Rafael Neis deposited In Comics: When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865520/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:00:35 -0500 In comics: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity. A blog post commissioned by UC Press Blog about the book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species.

Link: htt…[Read more]

]]> 0 18b9ff61c7e990b8cc3c3f4c125f253e Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850895/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:25:28 -0400 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).

]]> 0 c72350dc331d587b0c75568f0e955dff Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846675/ Sat, 20 May 2023 02:23:59 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e1fd5d96e04e9429f983f4e76e1196e1 Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840433/ Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:23:55 -0400 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]

]]> 0 48467b6a528183066621e38c689862d4 Kyle Frackman deposited Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837865/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:23:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 83299c0529a85b130cbd9111904d12f9 Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818414/ Sat, 22 Oct 2022 02:24:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 efb318dc495f0189092ad4c65cb956ab Gennady Shkliarevsky deposited SETTING RIGHT LGBTQ RIGHTS in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815908/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:27:33 -0400 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]

]]> 0 48f0d9902033d0b66a8513afdb36a3fa Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792027/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:24:57 -0400 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.

]]> 0 d9cedba317803e8f974dc61686f5768d Pramod Ranjan deposited पत्रकारिता और पुस्तक प्रकाशन में नैतिकता का सवाल एक पत्र in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788464/ Sun, 24 Jul 2022 02:24:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f77453b8b0f90915d6c47909c136a7ac Karsten Schubert deposited Sexuelle Befreiung und neue queere Solidarität durch PrEP in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782557/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:23:38 -0400 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

]]> 0 5927907cffff91c97f511f52c50abf51 Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Improbable Modes of Being in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766493/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:24:04 -0500 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]

]]> 0 e9ba4afb6ba1ecad86c4fd4442412951 Eileen Joy deposited All That Remains Unnoticed, I Adore: Spencer Reese's Addresses in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765726/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:25:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 63f1cc990aeea6815a4370c60be05ccb Karsten Schubert deposited Brauchen wir Political Correctness? Ein politisches Streitgespräch in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760882/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:23:51 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a16f6f555384fc581bf13abe1095ab7a Karsten Schubert deposited Konstruktivistische Identitätspolitik. Warum Demokratie partikulare Positionierung erfordert in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758733/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 02:23:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 1cdd5e15fe996c56b7f3d038732d00d9 Karsten Schubert deposited A New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of Homonormativity in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748862/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:23:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ec4619e5ff5f4f633d064ab94c00dca3 Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743678/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:28:12 -0400 “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]

]]> 0 d34a5d19984a64cd29091b16cb0a3dd5 Angelos Bollas deposited A critical discussion of inclusive approaches to sexualities in ELT in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737229/ Wed, 05 May 2021 02:24:08 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0b93958f00c1da30c0d818ed51cb2165 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737228/ Wed, 05 May 2021 02:24:05 -0400 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]

]]> 0 12f07dde0332ab1130251311a93247ca Angelos Bollas deposited 'Literature as Activism - From Entertainment to Challenging Social Norms: Michael Nava's Goldenboy (1988) in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737227/ Wed, 05 May 2021 02:24:01 -0400 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]

]]> 0 614ef6c0239d9135d2e3053d220e30dc 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1731817/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:28:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6ff642b087f88c9e8d07cee268658bec Karsten Schubert deposited Umkämpfte Kunstfreiheit - ein Differenzierungsvorschlag in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727966/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:23:49 -0500 „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]

]]> 0 6014f1f2e2e20367f0b02f6a7669107d Karsten Schubert deposited Queere und schwule Theorie (Foucault Rezeption) in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717505/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:23:54 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9378ebcef49fb343038ec9290243a470 Karsten Schubert deposited Queerness and Liberal Law: The Tension between Emancipation and Naturalization. Comment on Elisabeth Holzleithner in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708832/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:25:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6e55ed03656276b3144992a053280a5c Karsten Schubert deposited PrEP als demokratische Biopolitik. Zur Kritik der biopolitischen Repressionshypothese - oder: die pharmazeutische Destigmatisierung des Schwulseins. in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708820/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:25:18 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d3fb863090ace95327b6e2c2b4ff8850 Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29–12:20 and 20:1–18 in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707752/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:27:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f5932be2dc123d667c4fedb880de6ccc Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP - Conference - LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/lgbtq-studies/forum/topic/cfp-conference-lgbti-and-queer-arts-culture-activisms/#post-29156 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:46:10 -0500 The deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.

]]> 4ba414e2336f4a0b02f0a11e518094d1 Louise Barrière started the topic CfP - Conference - LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/lgbtq-studies/forum/topic/cfp-conference-lgbti-and-queer-arts-culture-activisms/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 15:43:10 -0500 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]

]]> aa3d417f39ddedcb56b6bba7e662fbd8 Hannah Gillard deposited Que(e)rying Antiwork Politics: Queer Identities, Agency, Affect and the Normalcy of Work in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674264/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:30:53 -0500 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]

]]> 0 bbafda954c9b8f4e4012f2847ec35f8f Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670094/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:05 -0500 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]

]]> 0 1b6f2ba23a1518e75140bc2a0feb34ef Kenji Khozoei deposited Decolonising the Commons: Fugitivity and Future Planning in End Times in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668575/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:25:40 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0e9889843df1087fbebb4099ab1010c7 Karsten Schubert deposited The Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668462/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:37:05 -0400 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]

]]> 0 39fad03b327f96cc4947af9c153a612d Karsten Schubert deposited Sexuelle und geschlechtliche Selbstbestimmung als Menschenrecht in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668457/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:36:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f4f45eca977988720a3e788792a96367 Karsten Schubert deposited Langer Weg zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung. Der Schutz von LSBTI durch die Vereinten Nationen in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668452/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:36:48 -0400 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]

]]> 0 8c2c799ac4928a2a7da0e3455693e693 Kyle Frackman deposited “Du bist Nummer 55”: Girls’ Education, Mädchen in Uniform, and Social Responsibility in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643725/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:25:23 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4632dca99431d26ad18d860a3e83b8a8 Eileen Joy deposited Working Darkly and Beautifully at the Bottom of Our Game: Failing, Fragility, and Making Things in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642312/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:27:28 -0400 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]

]]> 0 3421907a7241e1dcc3014fcc169c95f7 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642305/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:27:00 -0400 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.

]]> 0 b91b30755a7f08c8fdd781f78669c271 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625537/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:26:00 -0500 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]

]]> 0 5cca3077687c01bce4779d71ece80c05 Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617060/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:26:32 -0400 "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]

]]> 0 194d392d42db5a0c901462697fd278b0 Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615230/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:24:15 -0400 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]

]]> 0 3538caf9ca1bc234fd50e97cb3672332 Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609935/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:13:07 -0400 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]

]]> 0 8cbf07f98c76dba3af349ad063b8bbe7 Masahiro Morioka deposited Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594629/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:38:17 -0500 "Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality" is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 b86b88679bf9fc8b826ab3c38264e37d Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/lgbtq-studies/forum/topic/cfp-literature-as-activism-stony-brook-university-english-graduate-conference-4/#post-9823 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:55:31 -0500 The deadline is approaching!

In order to participate in the 2018 Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit your abstract of 250-300 words to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18, 2017.

]]> d1376748d1104d455f4dc00af99601a5 Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/lgbtq-studies/forum/topic/cfp-literature-as-activism-stony-brook-university-english-graduate-conference-4/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:54:46 -0400 Stony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more]

]]> 53872151bd7ef1fc1365b108340a725a Yvonne P. Doderer deposited SHINING CITIES. Gender and Other Issues in Urban Development for the Twenty-First Century in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581255/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 01:00:21 -0400 In the twenty-first century, the majority of people are living in cities—at least this is the credo communicated frequently. This statement has been strengthened by the “urban renaissance” that dawned at the beginning of the twenty-first century and by a globally evident increase in capital investment in urban-development projects. Such plann…[Read more]

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