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Frida and Anita
by Tavia Nyong’o Frida & Anita from Liz Rosenfeld on Vimeo. Frida & Anita, the new film by Liz Rosenfeld, had it’s Berlin premiere last night at Moviemento, to a packed house of friends and...
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The Summer of Raunch
By Jack Halberstam Did anyone else notice how comedies, I hesitate to call them “romantic,” let’s say “sex comedies,” have become absolutely pornographic nowadays? And I don’t really mean pornographic...
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Riots and Occupations: The Fall of the US and the Rise of The Politics of...
BY JAYNA BROWN AND JACK HALBERSTAM If there was an Arab Spring, it has been followed by a US Fall, not simply an autumn of increased political protest and widespread dissatisfactions but also...
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Darth Vader and Occupy Wall Street: A TwitterEssay by Ira Livingston
1. There’s a new Volkswagen ad in which a child dressed as Darth Vader tries to use “The Force” to control objects in the world. Dad comes home from work and, standing with mom at the kitchen window,...
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Occupying Gender in the Singular Plural
By Tavia Nyong’o Call me a sissy, but I’ve never particularly cared for being referred to as cisgender. Still, the work of transgendered activists within Occupy Wall Street has been one of things that...
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Kony 2012: Inaudible Children
By Tavia Nyong’o Can the subaltern speak? No, but she can certainly sob, with cries of raking loss and, a few rapid film cuts later, tears of heartwarming gratitude. I learned that much watching Kony...
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Bullybloggers on Failure and the Future of Queer Studies
On March 26, 2012, Gayatri Gopinath at NYU convened a panel of queer scholars to discuss “Failure and the Future of Queer Studies.” Using Jack Halberstam’s new book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke,...
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Friends With Benefits + The Kids Are All Right = Friends With Kids
By Jack Halberstam We all know that Hollywood movies emerge out of a, shall we say, limited gene pool of ideas; and when that pool runs dry, the stumped screenplay writers just shuffle the jigsaw...
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That Oceanic Feeling
by Tavia Nyong’o 19- year-old Christopher Breaux fell hard for another straight boy who couldn’t love him back, confessing his love in a car parked in front of the girlfriend’s house. But the queerest...
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Mark Aguhar’s Critical Flippancy
By Roy Pérez Somewhere deep in the Call Out Queen archive, Mark Aguhar quotes a line from another artist’s film: THINKS HE CAN NARRATE MY LIFE BECAUSE I TAUGHT HIM ABOUT FIRE AND WHEELS.* I...
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Queer Genealogies (Provisional Notes)
By Keguro Macharia I am seduced by the prospect of queer conference panels. I anticipate their erotic charge, their intellectual promiscuities, their fleshly abundance—so many queers in one space. I...
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GAME OF THRONES: THE QUEER SEASON by JACK HALBERSTAM (HOUSE OF NEMO)
Live by the sword and die by the sword Every couple of seasons, like warriors of an ancient cult or like the antagonists in Games of Thrones, scholars arm themselves for battle over the ownership of...
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Henry and Grover, Drowning in a Bathtub
By Tavia Nyong’o “I’m not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” — Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax...
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Atlas Shrugging
By Lisa Duggan The government shut down has ended and the threat of default has passed. Ted Cruz and the House Republicans have been defeated. But they don’t seem to know that. According to recent...
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José Esteban Muñoz – 1967-2013
José Esteban Muñoz, 1966-2013 This week, we lost a fierce friend, a comrade, a wry and trenchant critic, a brave and bold queer voice and a true utopian in a world of pessimists. As we try to reckon...
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For José
by Tavia Nyong’o José, I’m calling up thunder. Through so many tears Today, I’m knocking on your door. Can you hear? I’m listening for your laughter through the wall That separates and connects your...
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Transfeminist Marcos By Beatriz Marcos Preciado
Marcos For Ever On 25 May, Subcommander Marcos sent an open letter to the world from the “Zapatista reality” announcing the death of Marcos, who was constructed to act as a media representative and...
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You Are Triggering me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma
by Jack Halberstam I was watching Monty Python’s The Life of Brian from 1979 recently, a hilarious rewriting of the life and death of Christ, and I realized how outrageous most of the jokes from the...
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Triggering Me, Triggering You: Making Up Is Hard To Do
by Jack Halberstam I was re-watching 30 Rock the other day (yeah, right after I finished my Monty Python marathon) and I came across the episode where Liz Lemon’s show, TGS, is accused of “hating...
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