Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past…
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children’s and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across…
Blue House Monthly is the monthly trans webzine created, edited, and published by Blue House and is dedicated to trans culture and advocacy. Volume 3 Issue 2 April 1, 2024 CONTENTS Cover Art: “Propaganda Poster 2” Blue House Canada Meetup Recap Framing Trans Prison Reform Heart/Break Saigo Takamori: The Last Samurai Spring 2024 Group Picture…
Blue House Monthly is the monthly trans webzine created, edited, and published by Blue House and is dedicated to trans culture and advocacy. Volume 3 Issue 1 March 1, 2024 CONTENTS Cover Art: “Adam Unto Eve” Hazbin Hotel: a Helluva Review Trans in Hong Kong: Interview with a Jellyfish Dealer Borrasca V: Echoes of the…
Blue House Monthly is the monthly trans webzine created, edited, and published by Blue House and is dedicated to trans culture and advocacy. Volume 2 Issue 6 February 1, 2024 CONTENTS Cover Art: “National Gallery” Makoto Shinkai, the New Hayao Miyazaki? Trans in Russia: Interviewing Saffron Simple Succulent: Realism in VFX Happy People: A Year…
Blue House Monthly is the monthly trans webzine created, edited, and published by Blue House and is dedicated to trans culture and advocacy. Volume 3 Issue 6 August 1, 2024 CONTENTS Cover Art: “Polarized” Attack Helicopters and Gender: Chelsea Manning’s Readme.txt Visual Art: “Waves” A History of Gender & Sexuality in Harvest Moon Visual Art:…
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of…
The essays in Bible Trouble all engage queer theories for purposes of biblical interpretation, a rare effort to date within biblical scholarship. The title phrase Bible Trouble plays on Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, gesturing toward a primary text for contemporary queer theory. The essays consider, among others, the Lazarus story, the Ethiopian eunuch, gender trouble…
Gender Rolls is a collection of short stories with transgender protagonists. The tales span a variety of genres, from sci-fi to fantasy to superhero.
The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class…