abstract:This article revisits Leslie Feinberg's pioneering Stone Butch Blues alongside hir lesser known second novel, Drag King Dreams. Through a prism of well-established queer theory and emerging trans scholarship, the author seeks to demonstrate how Feinberg's political vision retained its Marxist core while adapting with the times to confront new challenges presented by neoliberism, bio/necropolitics, and imperialist warfare. Living from the mid-twentieth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, Feinberg's life spanned from an era of industrial capitalism to the apotheosis of neoliberalism. Witnessing everything from pre-Stonewall queer culture to Gay Liberation and, eventually, homonormativity, Feinberg's political commitments remained remarkably consistent. Hir life and work were anchored by a critical class consciousnesses that, in a queer vein, destabilized identity in the formation of coalitional political work and, through a transgender/Marxist line of thought, rejected binary modes of gender altogether as coercive mechanisms of capitalism. Feinberg's project is thus at once historical, yet ever contemporary, and merits renewed attention and commitment in the twenty-first century.
{"title":"\"Hasten the Revolution!\": Coalition-Building, Resistance, and Temporality in Leslie Feinberg's Fiction","authors":"Austin Gaffin","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article revisits Leslie Feinberg's pioneering Stone Butch Blues alongside hir lesser known second novel, Drag King Dreams. Through a prism of well-established queer theory and emerging trans scholarship, the author seeks to demonstrate how Feinberg's political vision retained its Marxist core while adapting with the times to confront new challenges presented by neoliberism, bio/necropolitics, and imperialist warfare. Living from the mid-twentieth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, Feinberg's life spanned from an era of industrial capitalism to the apotheosis of neoliberalism. Witnessing everything from pre-Stonewall queer culture to Gay Liberation and, eventually, homonormativity, Feinberg's political commitments remained remarkably consistent. Hir life and work were anchored by a critical class consciousnesses that, in a queer vein, destabilized identity in the formation of coalitional political work and, through a transgender/Marxist line of thought, rejected binary modes of gender altogether as coercive mechanisms of capitalism. Feinberg's project is thus at once historical, yet ever contemporary, and merits renewed attention and commitment in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88448318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:A thematic analysis of interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender US athletes who were out while playing varsity collegiate sports is examined for LGBTQ and athletic identifications. Conceptualizing being out as an ongoing process, we asked participants to describe their experiences over the years they were playing. Participants described athletic identifications as superordinate to and predating LGBTQ identifications. Although they initially anticipated overt conflict while out, they experienced more implicit than explicit homo/transnegativity. We draw upon theoretical perspectives of common in-group identity model and superordinate identity to analyze their descriptions. However, given that such models treat identities as separate, interacting things, they lack the dynamism and fluidity of contemporary queer perspectives, we add the concept of entanglement. Identifications were described as entangled in supportive ways but conditioned upon prioritizing athletic identifications as superordinate. We conclude urging scholarship on LGBTQ athletes to move past conflict-based expectations of explicit homophobia.
{"title":"\"You're a Cog in a System that Needs to Work\": Conditional Acceptance of LGBTQ College Athletes","authors":"D. Scott, Evan Brody, Katrina L. Pariera","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0099","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:A thematic analysis of interviews with lesbian, gay, and transgender US athletes who were out while playing varsity collegiate sports is examined for LGBTQ and athletic identifications. Conceptualizing being out as an ongoing process, we asked participants to describe their experiences over the years they were playing. Participants described athletic identifications as superordinate to and predating LGBTQ identifications. Although they initially anticipated overt conflict while out, they experienced more implicit than explicit homo/transnegativity. We draw upon theoretical perspectives of common in-group identity model and superordinate identity to analyze their descriptions. However, given that such models treat identities as separate, interacting things, they lack the dynamism and fluidity of contemporary queer perspectives, we add the concept of entanglement. Identifications were described as entangled in supportive ways but conditioned upon prioritizing athletic identifications as superordinate. We conclude urging scholarship on LGBTQ athletes to move past conflict-based expectations of explicit homophobia.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"34 1","pages":"122 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87197210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonisms and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable","authors":"Angelina Malenda","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90119547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. 1850–1900","authors":"Chloe Green","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79118260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This article analyses a series of interviews with queer-positive wedding apparel and style providers. Vendors' descriptions of their relationships with clients reveal a prioritization of embodied intersubjectivity. We explore vendors' construction of themselves as providing respite, in the wedding apparel production process, from clients' repertoire of experiences of exclusion in a hetero- and cisnormative fashion industry. The intercorporeal ethics at work in the relationships between vendors and clients suggests the persistence of what Wendy Brown has called "extramarket morality" inside the wedding attire marketplace.
{"title":"Making a Reality: Inclusive Wedding Vendors and Extramarket Morality","authors":"Ilya Parkins, Rosie Findlay","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0077","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article analyses a series of interviews with queer-positive wedding apparel and style providers. Vendors' descriptions of their relationships with clients reveal a prioritization of embodied intersubjectivity. We explore vendors' construction of themselves as providing respite, in the wedding apparel production process, from clients' repertoire of experiences of exclusion in a hetero- and cisnormative fashion industry. The intercorporeal ethics at work in the relationships between vendors and clients suggests the persistence of what Wendy Brown has called \"extramarket morality\" inside the wedding attire marketplace.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"97 1","pages":"77 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88972133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, there were several stories in the popular media about Black men's and boys' experiences of childhood sexual violence. Though this media attention is noteworthy given the stereotypes of Black men as hypermasculine and hypersexual that have positioned Black men as beyond the pale of public sympathy, stories of Black male sexual victimization can also traffic in narratives of deviance. This article examines media representation of the childhood sexual experiences of national recording artists Chris Brown and Lil Wayne to show how deterministic narratives of sexual deviance and sexual victimization circumscribe Black men's sexual stories and proposes a way of reading these stories beyond those narrative constraints.
{"title":"Hip-hop's Early Introduction to Sex: Queer Readings of Black Male \"Rape\" in Popular Culture","authors":"Darius Bost","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0145","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, there were several stories in the popular media about Black men's and boys' experiences of childhood sexual violence. Though this media attention is noteworthy given the stereotypes of Black men as hypermasculine and hypersexual that have positioned Black men as beyond the pale of public sympathy, stories of Black male sexual victimization can also traffic in narratives of deviance. This article examines media representation of the childhood sexual experiences of national recording artists Chris Brown and Lil Wayne to show how deterministic narratives of sexual deviance and sexual victimization circumscribe Black men's sexual stories and proposes a way of reading these stories beyond those narrative constraints.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"166 1","pages":"145 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84649523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures","authors":"David Church","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81176613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Portmanteau identities, such as "Gaymer" (gay-gamer), can shed light on the important social work that identity labels do for those who choose to adopt them. In this article, I analyze how "Gaymer" is not just a convenient portmanteau, but an identity used to manage stigma and advance inclusivity for people inhabiting identities often viewed as mutually exclusive. I demonstrate this with data gathered through actual world ethnographic research with Gaymers at a monthly meetup in Houston, Texas, and virtual world ethnographic research with two Facebook Groups. I found that Gaymers are often excluded from both the gaming community and the mainstream gay community, however, rather than try to minimize contradictions in their identity, they seek to create contradictions by gaming in gay bars, performing in drag shows as video game characters, and advocating for more inclusivity at gaming conventions, among other tactics. My results show a critical need to move beyond an examination that multiple stigmas exist, toward a study of how they interact. I build upon Russian linguist Nikolai Trubetzkoy's concepts of privative and equipollent markedness to show how the interaction between "gay" and "gamer" has resulted in the creation and performance of a "Gaymer" identity, what I call an equipollent identity. Recognizing the existence of equipollent identities, like Gaymer, invites consideration of the potentially positive and productive ways that stigmatized individuals manage stigma and build community.
{"title":"\"There's Power in that Y\": How Gaymers Manage Imbricated Stigma through an Equipollent Identity","authors":"Kyle Bikowski","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0025","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Portmanteau identities, such as \"Gaymer\" (gay-gamer), can shed light on the important social work that identity labels do for those who choose to adopt them. In this article, I analyze how \"Gaymer\" is not just a convenient portmanteau, but an identity used to manage stigma and advance inclusivity for people inhabiting identities often viewed as mutually exclusive. I demonstrate this with data gathered through actual world ethnographic research with Gaymers at a monthly meetup in Houston, Texas, and virtual world ethnographic research with two Facebook Groups. I found that Gaymers are often excluded from both the gaming community and the mainstream gay community, however, rather than try to minimize contradictions in their identity, they seek to create contradictions by gaming in gay bars, performing in drag shows as video game characters, and advocating for more inclusivity at gaming conventions, among other tactics. My results show a critical need to move beyond an examination that multiple stigmas exist, toward a study of how they interact. I build upon Russian linguist Nikolai Trubetzkoy's concepts of privative and equipollent markedness to show how the interaction between \"gay\" and \"gamer\" has resulted in the creation and performance of a \"Gaymer\" identity, what I call an equipollent identity. Recognizing the existence of equipollent identities, like Gaymer, invites consideration of the potentially positive and productive ways that stigmatized individuals manage stigma and build community.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"24 1","pages":"25 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90381860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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