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#Queer #research showcase about to start at work. Join us! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtqia-history-month-research-showcase-tickets-1216718942109?aff=oddtdtcreator

Panellists:

Natasha Egginton, Doctoral Researcher in Fine Art
“Reviving the Act of Social Assembly”

Ireneusz Koper, Doctoral Researcher in Documentary Film
“Documentary Filmmaker as an ACA and LGBT Advocate”

Lindsay Steenberg, Reader in Film Studies
“The Gladiator Film and Queer Classicism"

Rena Onat: Queere Künstler_innen of Color. Rezensiert von Prof. Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Voß, 27.01.2025 https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/33076.php #lgbtiq #queertheory

Die Oligarchen sind auch Aufständische der alten Männlichkeit gegen Feminismus und Queertheorie.
Sie bekommen Zustrom an seelischen und geistigen Tributen von den Verunsicherten und Zurückgebliebenen für diese Wiedererrichtung von Cis-Pflicht, Hetero-Pflicht, Macho-Pflicht und Tradwife-Pflicht gegen alle Infragestellungen der letzten Jahrzehnte.
#oligarchie
#männlich
#cis
#queertheory
#tradwife

Women’s implicit preferences reveal surprisingly high levels of gynephilia https://www.psypost.org/womens-implicit-preferences-reveal-surprisingly-high-levels-of-gynephilia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Gynephilia #WomenInResearch #SexualFluidity #queertheory #LGBTQIA

[thread] Judith Butler [they/them]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/judith-butler

* Am. feminist philosopher; gender studies scholar
* infl. political philosophy/ethics/3rd-wave feminism/queer theory/literary theory
* supporter, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights
* Who's Afraid of Gender? explores roots of current anti-trans rhetoric, a "phantasm" that aligns with emerging authoritarian movements

"Writing during the Disasters" is a new book by Marius Henderson on suffering in contemporary #AmericanPoetry applying #AffectTheory, #QueerTheory, Black Feminism & more to the works of 7 poets and 1 artist collective

#Poetry #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature
#AmericanStudies

The countersexual manifesto continually proves it's truth/efficacy through my living body.

"'When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery' is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence against enslaved black women by white men, the motivations for this rape, and the legal context that enabled this violence are all explored and scrutinized. Enlightening analysis found that rape was not merely a result of sexual desire and opportunity, or simply a form of punishment and racial domination, but instead encompassed all of these dimensions as part of the identity of white masculinity. This provocative text highlights the significant role that white women played in enabling sexual violence against enslaved black women through a variety of responses and, at times, through their lack of response to the actions of the white men in their lives. Significantly, this book finds that sexual violence against enslaved black women was a widespread form of oppression used to perform white masculinity and reinforce an intersectional hierarchy. Additionally, white women played a vital role by enabling this sexual violence and perpetuating the subordination of themselves and those subordinate to them."

If i, in this moment in time, were in the business of describing m(y) sexuality over the past couple months (and very probably the future ones as well), the “queer” of queer theory would be an effective concept to do so.

*see pinned posts for elaboration on 'i' and 'm(y)': https://mastodon.social/@m_enby/113143466411433179

"The slave ship is a womb/abyss. The plantation is the belly of the world. Partus sequitur ventrem—the child follows the belly. The master dreams of future increase. The modern world follows the belly. Gestational language has been key to describing the world-making and world-breaking capacities of racial slavery. What it created and what it destroyed has been explicated by way of gendered figures of conception, birth, parturition, and severed or negated maternity. To be a slave is to be “excluded from the prerogatives of birth.” The mother’s only claim—to transfer her dispossession to the child. The material relations of sexuality and reproduction defined black women’s historical experiences as laborers and shaped the character of their refusal of and resistance to slavery. The theft, regulation and destruction of black women’s sexual and reproductive capacities would also define the afterlife of slavery."

– Saidiya Hartman, "The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors." p. 166

Why does #science appear to ignore the #queer experience? It isn't because scientists fail to recognize #QueerTheory in their studies, but because political preferences calcified into #dogma are dressed up as "science" in Western society.

https://genderidentitytoday.com/science-doesnt-need-queer-theory/

#GenderIdentityToday

Cis people are divided into "gay" vs. "straight."

Trans people are divided into "identifies with AGAB gay people" vs. "does not identify with AGAB gay people."

These are both, imo, fundamental social divisions, of comparable role and significance, within the respective groups. Thoughts, anyone?

Really interesting academic article. Well worth a read to understand not just a critique of applying homonationalism to Taiwan, but also Israel, including assertions of ‘Pinkwashing’.

#Taiwan #Tongzhi #Homonationalism #Pinkwashing #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #QueerTheory #LGBTQ #Queer

https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/6/2/article-p261_003.xml?language=en

Just wrapped up day one of the University of New England’s online #Barbie & #popculture #conference and it’s FANTASTIC!!! So many great papers with my favs so far including ones on #QueerTheory (eg Ken as #transmasc, Barbieland as #asexual #utopia), Gerwig’s movie as a #feminist #fable, Barbie and #Australia / #BondiBeach, and representations of nonhuman #animals in Barbie worlds. My brain is exploding rn. Barbie is a piece of pop culture you can interrogate through so many lenses!!!

"Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/101
#cataloging #academiclibraries #LCSH #criticallibrarianship #queertheory #sexualidentity