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Leatherdykes, Queer Temporality, Threadbared, Etc.
I just posted several texts to the Readings page that we were talking about on Monday with Juana María Rodríguez: Hale, Jacob. “Leatherdyke Boys and their Daddies: How to Have Sex without Women or Men.” Social Text 52/3 (1997): 223-36. … Continue reading
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Blog Prompt 6: Queer Domesticity & Course Wrap Up
By 11 pm on Thursday June 16, please post a 700-word min. response to BOTH of the following prompts (700 words total is fine, but feel free to write more if you want): 1. Juana María Rodríguez traces the recent … Continue reading
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Fetishism: Capitalism, Desire, & Affective Economies
We were talking in class about the fetish and how the language of “fetishism” was used in the readings to describe capitalism and war. apinkray raised a great question about why this sexualized language of fetish is being used in … Continue reading
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Keith Hennessy & Circo Zero
Great discussion last night about Delinquent! Check out Keith’s other work with his company Circo Zero here. Several of his other works also address the prison-industrial-military complex, most notably Box (1985) and Mercy (2004, about the US torture of prisoners … Continue reading
Blog Prompt 5: The Prison-Industrial-Military Complex & Forced Immobilities
By 11 pm on Thursday June 9, please post a 600-word min. response to the following prompt: 1. How are mobility and immobility at work in the prison-industrial-military complex? What connections do you see between the juvenile justice system critiqued … Continue reading
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Blog Prompt 4: Contagious Movements & National Anxieties
By 11 pm on Thursday June 2, please post a 700-word min. response to the following prompt: Priscilla Wald, Nayan Shah, Mel Chen, and Catherine Waldby all analyze how contagion narratives function to construct the body politics through ideologies of … Continue reading
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Social Justice Activism & Memorialization
Check out this post by the Pittsburgh-based artist/activist collective Just Seeds–on social justice, memorialization, and anti-slavery activism in relation to Memorial Day.
Some Amazing Gender Friendly Bathrooms
From the blog of the best vintage store in Sacramento, Thunderhorse Vintage. The photos themselves are apparently from Richmond, Virginia: Too awesome for words.
Orientalism
We were talking quite a bit tonight about Orientalism and its relation to immigration policy, the ugly laws and disability, and sexuality. Below are some resources you might find useful for thinking through this stuff. The key text that lays … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, empire, history, knowledge, orientalism, race, representation, sexuality
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Toilet Politics
We were talking the other day about the politics of bathrooms in relation to the public/private divide, and I mentioned a new edited collection about the topic: Molotch, Harvey, and Laura Noren. Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, books, disability, gender, privacy, public, restrooms, surveillance
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Blog Prompt 3: Visuality, Citizenship, & Producing the Nation
By 11 pm on Thursday May 26, please post a 700-word min. response to the following prompt: Open topic–your response should engage with at least 2 texts we read this week, and the themes we’ve discussed in class around visual … Continue reading
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Class Film List
Here it is, the long-promised list of films related to course themes. Below are some that we’ve already talked about in class and some that relate that we haven’t yet discussed, but please add more using the comments feature. The … Continue reading
Surveillance, Privacy, & the State
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article you all might find interesting–it connects to what we were talking about last night regarding state surveillance and notions of privacy: “Why Privacy Matters Even When You Have Nothing to Hide”
More Lady Gaga
Wow, it seems that of all the topics we talked about last week the one to produce the most blog comments and discussion is (perhaps unsurprisingly) Lady Gaga! Well, in case you haven’t had your fill, check out the awesome … Continue reading
Blog Prompt 2: Neo/liberalism, Homonormativity, & Queer Activism
By 11 pm on Thursday May 19, please post a 700-word min. response to the following prompt: David Eng, Jasbir Puar, Margot Weiss, and Mattilda all critique the ways that privileged forms of queerness increasingly align with rather than resist … Continue reading
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