sexualities

Affect is not an expression of transsexuality but is, rather, the definitive condition of it.--Lucas Cassidy Crawford, “Transgender Without Organs?”Transsexuality offers a dramatic instance of the temporal instability of the flesh. It sets

I think I hear at least every other day: “You’re not normal!”You only like women because you’re in prison!”–Karen Batton, personal correspondence[1]  Prisons in the United States regulate the ways in which people in them can build a home and

[1] On 27 March 1995 Nigel Hawthorne did not win a Best Actor Oscar for his role as George III in Nicolas Hynter’s The Madness of King George (1994).  In an interview with the American magazine The Advocate a week earlier,

Setting the terms: after the Fire[1] While it would be problematic to fix a monolithic moment of change from invisibility to visibility in the context of queer citizenship in India, it could be argued that the events following the screening of 

[1] Although no critic has noted this, it still appears trite and painfully embarrassing to proclaim: “There are no lesbians in Chinese societies.” After all, it is almost a cliché to argue that sexuality is a construct. Thirty years ago, Michel

[1] I spent several years of my life looking, waiting for the right time to die. In my early twenties, I fantasized about being martyred, killed for a purpose, a cause, something that would make my death bearable for the others, those who cared. I

[1] The prominence of the ‘ghostly’ in Affinity, Sarah Waters’s 1991 neo-Victorian gothic fiction of female same sex desire, might be read as a fantastic fictional evocation of a recurring trope in lesbian feminist literary history and

[1] The cultural articulation of sexuality to political violence has enjoyed no shortage of scholarly analysis in recent years. Drawing upon libidinal models familiar to readers of renowned German Freudo-Marxists Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse, and

My inspiration for the script came from watching the religious right videotape The Gay Agenda.  There’s a scene where they show drag queens going through a town, and the narrator is warning viewers that these people will take over your

“Each week their mission is to transform a style-deficient and culture-deprived straight man from drab to fab in each of their respective categories: fashion, food and wine, interior design, grooming and culture.”—Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,