B. LeMaster, Danny Shultz, J. Nyla, Gray Bowers, and Rusty Rust. “Unlearning Cisheteronormativity at the Intersections of Difference: Performing Queer Worldmaking through Collaged Relational Autoethnography.” Text and Performance Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 2019, pp. 341-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2019.1672885
The first issue of Gendertrash From Hell, a zine produced by and for transsexual and transgender people. This issue contains a variety of submissions ranging from poetry, artwork, and articles regarding trans activism.
The third issue of Gendertrash From Hell, a zine produced by and for transsexual and transgender people. This issue contains a variety of submissions ranging from poetry, artwork, and articles regarding trans activism.
This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly changing understandings of gender diversity. From the…
In recent years, media attention to drag performers has increased transforming the once-hidden leisure activity of gay men and lesbians into a publicly recognized phenomenon. Many of these representations of drag have fallen short in offering reflective illustrations of the connections among gender identity, performance, misogyny, patriarchy, and activism. In response, we find ourselves studying…
Callaloo, the premier African and African-American literary journal, publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide. The journal offers a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this…
Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued…
On Documenting Marginalized Communities: ln the process of making a film, 8 million questions run through my head: Who are we representing and who hasn’ t already been represented? What is the most egalitarian way to approach this project? What is a feminist, antiracist approach? Who am I to make this? What will l fill…
“I use my most recent film, Thick Relations, to argue that traditional narrative structures are by definition oppressive and controlling. Traditional narratives demand a straight progress through time, through life, through love, through sexuality and conflict and family—a straight progress that would have us believe in and desirous of state-sanctioned institutions and relations. Queer lives…
In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. As Jones reveals, some of the best-loved devices of our shared social media language are a result of Black…