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WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
Number of Followers: 15  Subscription journalISSN (Print) 0732-1562 - ISSN (Online) 1934-1520 Published by Project MUSE  [305 journals]
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- Introduction
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Abstract: This special issue of WSQ, Nonbinary, reflects upon the work that the concept “nonbinary” does in terms of unsettling the codes of gender, sexuality, race, and other categories of being and knowing. For this issue, we understand nonbinary to serve as a direct challenge to the tenacity of binary logics, ethics, and orientations. We also acknowledge that we have made a choice in using the word “nonbinary” that is only a gesture at the breaking of binaries that utilize other words and languages. Nonbinary is a moving thing, and the word may become outdated in the near future, as queer language is wont to do. Not only located, but perhaps most recognizably found, in discussions of gender and sexuality, nonbinary must ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Self-Portrait with Mom Fixing My Hair
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Abstract: In the early ’90s I played a lot with drag and photography as a way to explore my feelings about my own gender. We had words like “androgynous,” “tomboy,” and “soft-butch.” Currently, identifying as nonbinary seems much more accurate as I don’t identify as male and I also don’t identify as female. My explorations were more psychological and when I played with drag in relationship to another person it got really interesting. My mom is probably the person in the world who I most formed my gender identity in relationship to. She lives now with advanced dementia and continues to be nonjudgmental, embracing me for all of who I am. Linc Ross. Self-Portrait with Mom Fixing My Hair, 1992. Silver gelatin ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Nonbinary Pronouns in Literary History: Queer(ing) Pronouns in the Works
of Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish-
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Abstract: There are many reasons why a literary studies approach that focuses on pronouns as elements of form can help us gain new perspectives on some of the current, frequently transphobic and racist, debates on gender-neutral language. First, despite supposed grammatical or aesthetic shortcomings, gender-neutral pronouns, including singular they, have been in use, in literary as well as quotidian discourse, for centuries. Through an exploration of queer(ed) pronoun use in seventeenth-century British literature, this essay seeks to show how nonbinary, gender-neutral, and ambiguous pronouns have not only functioned as practical linguistic means to refer to people of unknown genders but have been used to explicitly refer to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Nature Is Nonbinary: Gender and Sexuality in Biology Education in Chile
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Abstract: According to the Spanish Royal Academy’s dictionary, the third of four uses of the letter o is for disjunctive conjunction, which means it “denotes difference, separation or alternative between two or more people, things or ideas” (RAE 2021), exactly as the word “o” is used in its English form, “or.” This disjunction is commonly used in everyday vocabulary to separate actions or objects into dichotomous categories, such as “Do you prefer tea or coffee'” In the following paragraphs, the necessary and innocuous use of the disjunctive conjunction will be overshadowed by its discursive dangers in topics related to sexuality, since the letter o in Spanish indicates binarism. As we see it, this linguistic binary use ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- #Nonbinary Joy—Tristan
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Abstract: This is an image from my personal project celebrating #NonbinaryJoy. #NonbinaryJoy is a series of joyful, colorful, fun portraits of nonbinary individuals!TristanGender: Trans Masc/NonbinaryPronouns: He/They“To me it means I am not limited with how I express myself and am able to live my truth. Oftentimes I don’t like to even identify my gender at all, but prefer to use the umbrella term ‘trans,’ since to me it’s most inclusive.”—Tristan Salgu Wissmath. #Nonbinary Joy—Tristan, 2022. Digital ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Seasons of Nonbinary and Neurodivergence; or, So What If We’re All
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Abstract: There is anxiety in the air. The odor of restlessness wafts under our noses. As the spring of our emergence comes to an end, summer arrives for us nonbinary people. It’s a long, hot season. What once felt fresh and open to possibility is settling into something more durable. The bud of our identity has blossomed, and now it longs for direction. When to spread its petals wide, when to curl up into itself, how to feed, and where to fall' Nonbinary people are adjusting ourselves to the demands of a new season. No longer an uncommon identity that skirts clear definitions in the shadows, nonbi-nary is in direct sun as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the Canadian census, and Target’s Pride Collection. Whatever ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Dedication to Brianne Waychoff
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Abstract: Brianne always showed up. They supported me as a colleague when I took my first adjunct position at Bronx Community College. They invited me to present alongside them on a panel about feminist activism when I was just starting out in graduate school. They cosplayed Billy Hoyle (from White Men Can’t Jump) at a Halloween party I threw in the Bronx. Brianne was a genuine spirit who cared about building community, laughing, and making a path for others along the way. Thank you, Brianne, for being a friend, mentor, and a kick-ass Billy Hoyle! Rest easy. ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Editors’ Note
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Abstract: We are delighted to witness the publication of this special issue, Nonbinary, at the beginning of our term as WSQ general editors. The urgency and timeliness of this issue cannot be overstated. We are living in a moment of deep polarization, distrust, and grief; every day we experience deliberate attacks and laws against trans, nonbinary, and LGBTQIA+ communities, and must re-energize our fight against oppression by building coalitions. At the same time, we observe a flourishing of identities and the rise of generations committed to self-expression beyond binaries. This special issue emerges from these material conditions and offers paths to engage with, apply, and celebrate nonbinary plurality without reifying a ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Nonbinary Epistemologies: Refusing Colonial Amnesia and Erasure of
Jotería and Trans* Latinidades-
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Abstract: In the winter of 2020, I taught my first course, Trans* Latinx Studies. During the first two weeks of class, students voiced their discontent with the syllabus, claiming that the initial readings were mainly about gay and lesbian Latinos/as. One of the students, who identified as a mestizo mixed-raced trans and nonbinary student, shared the following: “I took a general intro trans studies class that at least had one week for us. It does not make sense to have the course titled Trans* Latinx Studies if we only read queer Latino history.” In asserting “a week for us,” the student referred to the usual single article or week focusing on trans-Latinx people within listed trans courses—a “week for us” that usually ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Tracing “Gender Critical” Ideology in Turkey: A Study of the Feminist
Movement on Sex/Gender in Relation to Trans and Queer Inclusivity-
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Abstract: Disclaimer: is article may trigger some readers as it analyzes transphobic views and contains participant quotations expressing such a itudes.The notion of sex/gender has been conceptualized in various ways through the history of feminism in the Global North.1 With the influence of Simone de Beauvoir’s famous remark “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” (2011, 330), the second-wave feminists have approached sex and gender separately, where sex is biological and gender is the cultural construction built on it. A radical interpretation on this distinction has been made with the emergence of queer theory in the ’90s. Judith Butler, in their epochal work Gender Trouble (2006), criticizes the binary distinction ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Gender Transgressions: Nonbinary Spaces in Greco-Roman Antiquity and
Ancient China-
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Abstract: Whilst nonbinary as an identity has existed throughout history, the ancient world had no basis for understandings of gender as it has come to be understood in the past decades. The heterosexual matrix, as defined by Judith Butler in their germinal 1990 book Gender Trouble, not only influences our perception of desire, attraction, and sexual acts but additionally distorts and ratifies gender as a binary construct. Nonbinary is an umbrella term for gender identities that fall outside of the modern binary of male or female, and this term entered the transnational public lexicon within the last decade. With transgender studies emerging as a field spearheaded by authors such as Halberstam, Stryker, and Serano ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- You entice me with but one of your eyes
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Abstract: You entice me with but one of your eyes is named for a verse from Song of Songs and modeled after the Ain Sakhri figurine, also known as the Ain Sakhri Lovers. The Ain Sakhri figurine is the first artistic portrayal of sex, between two embracing, genderless figures. The sculpture also depicts ambiguous sex organs depending on the angle from which it is viewed. It was carved eleven thousand years ago in what is now Palestine. It was discovered by a Bedouin, whose name was not recorded, and identified to be of immense historical importance by a French archeologist. In 1958 Sotheby’s sold the Lovers to the British Museum, where they remain to this day.The cave in which the Lovers were discovered sits in an Area C zone ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Transition and Trans*lation beyond Binary History in Mid-century Upper
Egypt; or, Portraits of Transfemininity in Asyut-
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Abstract: The full two-page spread in Ākhir Sā`ahPhallogocentric language, not its particular speaker, is the scalpel that defines our flesh.The task of the translator is to facilitate this love between the original and its shadow, a love that permits fraying, holds the agency of the translator and the demands of her imagined or actual audience at bay. The politics of translation from a non-European woman’s text too often suppresses this possibility because the translator cannot engage with, or cares insufficiently for, the rhetoricity of the original.This is a history of language. The subtitle of the magazine article, pictured above, poses the question “What does psychology have to say about what these people are doing ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Wondrous Bodies: Trans Epistemology and Nonbinary Saints
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Abstract: From debates about the validity of neopronouns, to Euphoria star Hunter Schafer’s “like” of an Instagram post scapegoating nonbinary people as the linchpin in Florida’s recent spate of trans-antagonistic legislation, to Kadji Amin’s scholarly consideration of the genealogy and limitations of the category of nonbinary, questions surrounding nonbinary identity are everywhere these days (Murphy 2016; Amin 2022; Blair 2022). This article responds to these questions by placing contemporary understandings of nonbinary identity in a broader historical and transnational context. I argue for a reexamination of modern categories of gender through the lens of a transgender epistemology of embodiment with particular attention ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Resistant Body
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Abstract: This visual text was co-created with a nonbinary child. At the center is an outline of their body with quotes from their own moments of self-definition. They also contributed to the design and artistic choices of the piece. On my end, it is a form of literature review exploring the historicized creation of the gender binary and the deep ties that political project has to white supremacy (Bederman 1995; Schiebinger 2004; Schuller 2018). Surrounding their body are quotes from my reviewed texts arranged haphazardly in layers of white paint and black marker. These narratives are visible but somewhat difficult to read, similar to how these discourses are around us all the time, impressing upon young bodies and forcing ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Desi Genderqueerness: The Mystery and History of Gender Diversity in India
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Abstract: Forms of art such as music have always been of importance in gauging India’s rich culture and heritage. The Hijra community, for instance, has historically been considered outcast and abject yet sacred and spiritually gifted, all of which mostly derives from their ambiguous gender identity (Sherinian and Nyong’o 2019). With mythological roots to their significance, the traditional occupation of Hijras has been performing—singing and dancing at baby showers, weddings, and other auspicious events—rituals of cultural importance. Hijras are said to embody the Mother Goddess in Hindu mythology, where their impotency is linked conversely to the power of generativity. They also link to Lord Shiva, who embodies both the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Queerly Comprehensible: The Nonbinary Art of Kris Grey
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Abstract: What does it mean to be a nonbinary artist when “nonbinary” instantiates not only one’s gender but also one’s aesthetic' What is a genderqueer mentality, and what is its relation to a nonbinary art practice' What generates what' Reflects' Instructs' Critiques' This article maps some of the strategies that genderqueer artist Kris Grey takes up in order to “irritate gender” and some of the binaries that Grey thus undoes. I argue that Grey’s art-making pushes for gender beyond taxonomy and that their reference in Homage to the doubting apostle Thomas radically links their nonbinary art to religious iconography, thus queering a master discourse.Kris Grey embraces all pronouns. This meaningful choice is consequential in ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Trans* Lives of Jadzia Dax: A Queer Ecology Reading of Symbiosis in Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine-
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Abstract: Star Trek (1966–) is one of the biggest franchises to imagine and speculate on the possibility of a utopia. Following the captains, lieutenants, and ensigns of the United Federation of Planets, Star Trek brings extraterrestrial adventures with an emphasis on diplomacy, peace, and equality. Regardless of the conflicts and hardships, the basic premise of the franchise lies in the possibility of a peaceful existence between humans and nonhumans. On the more critical side of the franchise lies Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), produced in a transitioning and turbulent era for politics and civil rights movements, which often impacts the stories Star Trek depicts onscreen. This series, unlike the others, does not ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Nonbinary Blackness of Pauli Murray and Ornette Coleman: Constraint
and Freedom within the Glandular Imaginary-
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Abstract: In “Becoming Glandular: Endocrinology, Mass Culture, and Experimental Lives in the Interwar Age”, historian Michael Pettit explores how, in his words, “the human sciences work to refigure what counts as selfhood” (2013). He focuses specifically on the rise of endocrinology as a medical specialty in the late nineteenth century, and the eventual emergence in popular culture of beliefs in, and discourses about, the power of hormones to alter the conditions of embodied being-in-the-world. Against the historical backdrop of this “glandular age”, Western embodiment and subjectivity increasingly came be seen as sites of bio-medical and technological intervention, capable of transformation according to ideological ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Not to Be Dramatic But
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Abstract: My work is rooted in an existential search for self and community, and driven by my personal experiences with queerness, mental illness, and spirituality. As a transmasc/genderfluid/nonbinary person, I am drawn to self-portraiture as an attempt to externalize my varied self-perceptions and visualize my constantly morphing gendered self-states. These prints are physical expressions of my experiences and are manifestations of myself that are untranslatable into written or verbal language. Kyra Gregory. Not to Be Dramatic But, 2022. Woodblock relief print on ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Dear Theresa, from Stone Butch Blues
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Abstract: Dear Theresa:I’m lying on my bed tonight missing you, my eyes all swollen, hot tears running down my face. There’s a fierce summer lightning storm raging outside. Tonight I walked down streets looking for you in every woman’s face, as I have each night of this lonely exile. I’m afraid I’ll never see your laughing, teasing eyes again.I had coffee in Greenwich Village earlier with a woman. A mutual friend fixed us up, sure we’d have a lot in common since we’re both “into politics.” Well, we sat in a coffee shop and she talked about Democratic politics and seminars and photography and problems with her co-op and how she’s so opposed to rent control. Small wonder—Daddy is a real estate developer.I was looking at her ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Old Days, from S/HE
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Abstract: Standing in the pit of the auditorium, you are someone I don’t know yet, handsome in silky shirt and tie, hair clipped close almost as skin on your fine-boned head. You read a story about bar raids in the 50s, a dawn scene on the street between a butch just released from jail and the woman who has waited for her and now smooths her shirt, mourns the indelible bloodstains that will never wash out. As you read, I am the woman who touches the shirt, startled to be so translated to a place I think I’ve never been.Yet later I remember that when I got to the trailer she had already showered and changed out of her overalls. The plaid shirt, her favorite shirt he had slashed with his knife, was a heap on the bathroom ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Making Pictures: Disabled Nonbinary Praxis in Leslie Feinberg’s
screened-in Photography Series-
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Abstract: In 2014, as Leslie Feinberg lay dying, zie said, “Remember me as a revolutionary communist” (Feinberg and Pratt 2014). That hir last words were instructions for how zie wished to be remembered highlights the way zie was misrepresented in life. Feinberg is most praised for hir novel Stone Butch Blues and often hailed as a lesbian to the exclusion of hir stated transgender identity (Prosser 1998, 171–207). A groundbreaking transgender activist and writer, zie helped to popularize the term “transgender” in its most common usage today: a wide variety of gender non-normative identities that zie hoped would unite in solidarity (Stryker 2017, 153). However, Feinberg’s intended meaning for the term “transgender” was more ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Generations of Ex-lovers Cannot Fail: Rethinking Lesbian Feminism Today
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Abstract: Executive Director Sarah Chinn of the (then) Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)1 co-organized the Lesbians in the 1970s conference in 2010 to “commemorate, celebrate, and evaluate the diverse contributions of lesbians over the course of the 1970s” (Chinn 2011). In her CLAGSNews newsletter retrospective, Chinn delightedly records that hopeful estimates for 250 registrants were surpassed with 450 attendees(!) “filling the halls of the [CUNY] Graduate Center with more lesbians than the building has ever seen and most likely ever will see!” She adds how exciting it was that paper proposals “came from younger women (and a couple of men), who were engaging lesbian experiences in the 1970s as meaningful topics for ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Sex and State Are Action Verbs
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Abstract: In the face of the present moment’s relentless culture-war legislation against transgender people, Sex Is as Sex Does is a gift to educators who want to teach transgender studies from a political science perspective. This book is accessible and clearly written in a way that makes it especially suitable for undergraduate students as well as people outside of academia who want to deepen their understanding of transgender politics. Paisley Currah’s experiences as both an advocate for transgender rights and a social theorist guide readers to look at big-picture questions about the social construction of sex in and through governance practices, without losing sight of the immediate material needs of trans people for ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- TransArchitecture
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Abstract: Redefining its objectives based on the current needs for social change (based on freedom, equality, and mutual aid), Adrians Black (they/their/them)’s radical-social art and its approach to the moving contexts of present times can be a political instrument to unveil and struggle for new landscapes. Their interdisciplinary artworks take the shape of urban interventions, performances, photos, happenings, trans-media events, and environmental projects. They operate the mutual contamination of diverse media that is immersive, collaborative, and participatory in nature and intended to stimulate critical thought (articulating art with anarko-feminist-trans-queer and anti-colonial set of positions). Promoting potency ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- The Creative Resistance of Trans of Color Culture, Technology, and
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Abstract: Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement, Jian Neo Chen’s book debut, engages transdisciplinary critique through the examples of trans, gender nonconforming, and disabled artists and activists of color working across film, performance, literature, and digital media, among other cultural practices. Chen locates radical aesthetics and activism that challenge dominant paradigms ordering the world according to racial and colonial binary sex/gender systems (4). Taking as its departure point the 2014 Time magazine cover featuring actress Laverne Cox announcing the “transgender tipping point,” the book critiques the ways in which racialized trans identity has become minoritized in our ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- “Mic check, one, two, one, two”: Hip Hop Heresies: Queer
Aesthetics in New York City-
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Abstract: Shanté Paradigm Smalls comes in hot with their recently published Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City. In the first few pages, Smalls clearly defines why NYC, why aesthetics, and why queer; then shifts deeper into defining both queer and Black aesthetics—ultimately answering the question of why hip hop. As they remind us that “hip-hop is middle-aged,” they very clearly maintain it is a genre housed squarely with young adults and teenagers. Hip hop’s mercurial nature is one that constantly changes underfoot—making it solid ground to build a queer, Black, hip hop aesthetic framework. Smalls decided to locate hip hop aesthetic in “disorganized street culture” permitting messiness. This beautiful chaos ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Writing about Mentorship, and Mentorship through Writing
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Abstract: My copy of Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology is thin and pink, floppy almost, with title matter written in modern, lowercase letters. Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman, both English professors and themselves a mentor-mentee pair, introduce the book humbly and autobiographically, musing on COVID, the ’80s proto-girlboss film Working Girl, and their own experiences with mentorship and feminist community. For these and other reasons, including an intrusive, gen-Z cynicism about second-wave feminism that try as I might I can’t always suppress, I picked up Feminists Reclaim Mentorship expecting reminiscences about boys’-club academia, open-secret sexual harassers, older women hardened by their own ascents to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Ben & Brianne @ Home
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Abstract: Brianne Waychoff. Ben and Brianne @ Home, 2020. Pen and ink.Brianne Waychoff. Ben and Brianne @ Home, 2020. Pen and ... Read More
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- Trans Visibility Cloak
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Abstract: One Sunday afternoon, as Aiden walked through the vestibule of their Brooklyn apartment building, they saw a long cape hanging on a coat hook near the mailboxes. They thought this odd. Often there were packages dropped off here on the floor, but they’d never seen a tenant use the coat hooks. It was a remnant of a bygone era when this brownstone was inhabited by one family instead of split into three apartments.Aiden had been a goth girl in high school, wore a homemade cape then, a thing that shrouded their ever-changing body in mystery. It made the hated curves of their body invisible but made them a target of merciless teasing. In the New Jersey suburbs of the 1990s, it got Aiden the nickname Dracula. Secretly ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Another Way to Fly, from Terry Dactyl
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Abstract: The first time I met Sid she was on the dance floor in a silver and gold tube dress pulled over her head except it wasn’t just a dress because the fabric went on and on and somehow she knew the exact spot on the dance floor where the light would shine right on her or that’s how it felt when she was writhing inside this tube of fabric, pulling it up and down, a hand out and a hand in, and then her face exposed in harsh white makeup and black lipstick with long glittering eyelashes and then she rolled onto the floor, she was crawling or more like bending but also she was completely still in the bouncing lights and all this was somehow happening on a crowded dance floor at the Limelight while I was sipping my cocktail ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Palmetto, from Black Girl in Triptych, Part 1
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Abstract: The short man muttered to himself as he limped toward his seat in the fifth car of the Palmetto leaving Charleston, South Carolina . . . the car where Negroes sat. His body was slight, wisp-like, but his mouth sounded like he was swishing seven marbles. He spoke kind of funny because apparently, he never left his Haitian accent back in Acul-du-Nord, even though he arrived in Edgefield County, South Carolina, ten years earlier. The pout of his lips, from which the accent fell, was why they called him Frenchy—a name a lot of South Carolinians called Haitians who first came to Charleston in the 1700s from Saint Dominique.Frenchy boarded the train in his gray pants and light-blue short-sleeve polo shirt. He had the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- Trans CUNY Zine
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Abstract: Elvis Bakaitis. Trans CUNY Zine, 2023. Pen and ink.Elvis Bakaitis. Trans CUNY Zine, 2023. Pen and ink.Elvis Bakaitis. Trans CUNY Zine, 2023. Pen and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- QPOC Conference Keynote: UCSB
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Abstract: I would like to thank QPOC Conference here at UCSB, the organizers, the students, the late nights and missing meals, the gas money and the delusion it takes to create social justice and critical and party space all in one dreamy QTBIPOClandia is a feat. If you get new ideas, get new crushes, have new protest chants, it’s because of those who’ve brought you here. Thank you to everyone who brought us here, the people who clean and care for this building, the earth that feeds us, the native and indigenous, Two-Spirit communities whose land we are occupying, specifically the Chumash community. Gratitude to those who, like my mama, a motel worker, are globally exploited, forced migration, for this clean air, and my own ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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- NB-ous: On the Coalitional Drive of the Nonbinary
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Abstract: The aim here is not to give an incessantly clear definition of nonbinariness, such that we would then have an “accurate” or “correct” definition. Indeed, this impulse—to clarify pristinely, to excavate etymological roots in order for a term to be illuminated once and for all, obviating misuse—is one I have long had, and I feel its tugs now. But that will not save nonbinariness from misuse or misunderstanding. There is in fact something in nonbinariness that refuses this impulse, it seems—something that has long asserted that even if this or that meant X (or shall we say “Q” or whatever other non-X/Y letter so as not to imply gender- and sex-laden allusions) in its supposed origins, in its etymological DNA, as it ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-10-24T00:00:00-05:00
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