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Civility Disobedience
By Tav Nyong’o Has incivility become the new obscenity? Everywhere one turns these days, it seems, ‘civility’ is being held up as a norm to which we all agreed to be held accountable. When was this...
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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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On Trauma and Trigger Warnings, in Three Parts
Lisa Duggan This is the first of several posts adapted for Bully Bloggers from an October 14, 2014 panel at NYU: Taking Offense: Trigger Warnings & the Neoliberal Politics of Endangerment a panel...
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Classrooms and Their Dissed Contents
Ann Pellegrini “Oh, what a beautiful mornin’! / Oh, what a beautiful day! / I’ve got a beautiful feelin’ / Ev’rythin’s goin’ my way.” These lines are from the opening moments of Oklahoma, the 1943...
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Trauma Lives Us: Affective Excess, Safe Spaces and the Erasure of Subjectivity
Avgi Saketopoulou Let me start by situating myself. My background is in the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, not in the academy. Much of my work revolves around the treatment of trauma. Over the...
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Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds, on Trigger Warnings
Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston ON. McKittrick is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Univ. of Minnesota...
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Transparent (2014): The Highs, the Lows, The Inbetweens
I was willing to go with the non-trans casting of the excellent Jeffrey Tambor for the role of the father who comes out to his children as a woman later in life. I was willing to overlook the...
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The Good (Enough) Life: On Empire and The Black Queer Son
By Tav Nyong’o In Adorno’s notorious critique of jazz, he consigned the efforts of black musicians to a quixotic struggle against racial capitalism. “With jazz,” he wrote in 1936, “a disenfranchised...
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A Necrology for Pedro Lemebel
Fucking AIDS fucking cancer of the larynx, fucking dictatorship, and fucking facade of democracy, fucking macho mafia that they keep on calling a political party, fucking censorship, fucking couples,...
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Looking for the same: On homonormative je ne sais quoi
By Eng-Beng Lim If only the queer value of a traditional saying, “one man’s trash is another’s treasure” could substitute for the over-earnest, self-same search of gay looking, the online vernacular on...
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When Civility Is Brown
By Sandy Soto In his sharp Bully Bloggers post on “Civility Disobedience” last fall, Tavia Nyong’o pointed out that (in)civility is too often taken up by we who might be most suspicious of that tool:...
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Escape Velocity, or, There Must be 50 Ways to Queer ‘The Family’
By Lisa Duggan I’m teaching an introductory undergraduate course in LGBT history and politics this spring, encountering anew the alternating confusion, resistance and delight of students as they start...
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Fifty Shades of Zzzzzzzzzz by Jack Halberstam
Half way through the erotic snooze fest (no seriously, the woman next to me was snoring 10 minutes in!!), Fifty Shades of Grey (FSOG), our eponymous hero presents his lover to be with an offer she...
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The Shipped and the Bereft, or, Seven Backward Glances that won’t turn you to...
By Tav Nyong’o 7. It’s S/K, not K/S (yes, it matters) As any slash fiction writer, or semiologist, will tell you, order matters. And so the fantasy of a love relation between Spock and Kirk is no more...
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A Lover’s Discourse on a Bridge, by Sandy Soto
1. attente / waiting Tumult of anxiety provoked by waiting for the loved being, subject to trivial delays (rendezvous, letters, telephone calls, returns). –Roland Barthes Last Monday, my blasé sorting...
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No Cane, No Gain: Harry, Queer Discipline and Me, by Eng-Beng Lim
To cane or not to cane, that is the question: Somewhere between the mirror and the international stage, Singaporeans and Singaphiles alike must all face the cane as the instrument and metaphor of state...
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He Does Class and Race, She Does Gender and Sexuality (and Class and Race):...
By Lisa Duggan Parts of this blog post have been adapted from my 2014 American Studies Association Presidential Address, forthcoming in American Quarterly. Have you noticed? The way that so many left...
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Should The Vajayjay Speak?
Back in January of this year, 2015, a curious story began to circulate in online education journals like Inside Higher Ed: “A student group at Mount Holyoke College has decided to cancel its annual...
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“Self-Portrait 2015” Roderick A. Ferguson University of Illinois, Chicago May...
It’s a strange thing to find yourself as a character in the book you just wrote, especially when the book is neither fiction nor autobiography. Those of you who have read The Reorder of Things will...
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“Same” Sex Adultery, Bigamy, Gold Digging and Divorce, or, What Is to Be Done...
The recent vote in favor of marriage equality in Ireland raises many interesting questions about the implications of broadening public support for “same sex” marriage. Does this support corral LGBT...
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