Queer Studies

In response to critics claims that a discussion of sexuality and nationalism vis-à-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict bears no relation to the authors previous work, or to such discussions within the US or European contexts, this paper details the…

This article informs that the sexual history of Asian diasporas is being written across nations, institutions, their publics. In this article, the author speaks about one privileged site and set of institutions in which the "sexual history" of the…

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Readeris the biggest and most comprehensive multi-disciplinary anthology of critical work in lesbian/gay studies. Comprising scholarship, criticism, commentary, and political analysis, lesbian/gay studies is one of the…

In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how…

This article informs that the war on terror is an assemblage hooked into an array of enduring modernist paradigms and postmodernist eruptions. Queer times require even queerer modalities of thought, analysis, creativity, and expression in order to…

The article focuses on feminist disability studies. punch. Feminist disability studies wants to unsettle tired stereotypes about people with disabilities. Feminism challenges the belief that femaleness is a natural form of physical and mental…

The coloniality of power is understood by Anibal Quijano as at the constituting crux of the global capitalist system of power. What is characteristic of global, Eurocen- tered, capitalist power is that it is organized around two axes that Quijano…

Pornography is speech, according to the law. Pornography is a kind of act, according to anti-pornography feminist Catherine MacKinnon. Put these together, and pornography is a kind of speech act. Feminist claims that pornography subordinates and…

This essay advances a series of critical points in queer theory. First, a text is queer, regardless of the queerness of its authorial persona, if it carries the inscription of sexuality as something more than sex. This is argued in relation to Djuna…

This essay examines the historical and theoretical development of sexuality in migration research. Noting gaps and omissions in the literature, the essay proposes a dual notion of sexuality including one that is produced by the intersection of other…

In these closing comments from the "Queer Bonds" conference (subtitled "A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability"), the author suggests that the "sociability" staged at the conference itself depended on a certain forgetfulness, a certain "failure of…

This article frames queer tourism through two lenses. First, I explore how queer tourism and queer spatiality occlude questions of gender and efface the varied modalities of travel, tourism, mobility, and space/place-making activities of women,…

This essay attempts to address the crucial relation of feminist philosophy to minorities inside and outside of feminism. To do so it turns to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, focusing on their concept of "becoming minoritarian" and related…

The essay discusses the Israeli queer activist group Black Laundry that emerged in 2001 following the outbreak of the second Intifada. The analysis underscores Black Laundry's move away from the assimilationist politics of the LGBT community in…

In this paper I argue that in order to challenge the marginalisationof lesbians, gay men, and other sexual dissidents within the discipline,we need to pay more attention to how geographyhas been studied. I consider how different theoretical…

The most resounding expression of the truly unprecedented mobilizations of migrants throughout the United States in 2006 was a mass proclamation of collective defiance: Aquí Estamos, y No Nos Vamos! Here we are, and we're not leaving!. This same…

The essay presents a model of "queer family romance" (adapted from Freud's concept of family romance) in historical practices of collecting visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though queer collections of visual culture and…

The reality dating programs Boy Meets Boy and Playing It Straight purported to illustrate the elusiveness of performing sexual orientation in a culture that increasingly understands sexuality as fluid. By highlighting stereotypes typically…

Hinged to a conversation between the author and her friend and colleague (now deceased) in Australia in 1993, this essay examines an ethical and conceptual gap that opens between an analytic that focuses on the disruptive nature of enjoyment in…

This essay, originally delivered as a response to Leo Bersani's presentation "Father Knows Best" at UC Berkeley's "Queer Bonds" conference, provides a critical appraisal of Bersani's reading of Claire Denis's film Beau Travail, exploring both the…