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.
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abstract:In Terrorist Assemblages, Jasbir Puar introduces the concept of homonationalism as an analytic for a sociohistorical moment of seeming contradictions in gay politics. Since the book's first edition in 2007, several scholars have theorized the relation between homonationalism and transgender politics by examining nonfictional texts from 2007 onward. That scholarship most often explores the controversy surrounding US transparency activist Chelsea Manning's 2010 leaks of government information and subsequent "coming out" as transgender. However, interactions among homonationalism, transgender politics, and fictional texts remain undertheorized. Analyzing those interactions with a focus on American exceptionalism and science fiction television, this article shows that transnormative nationalism began territorializing through transtextuality as early as 2000. This argument not only contributes a more comprehensive explanation of the relation between homonationalism and transgender politics but also reveals the role of science fiction television in connecting the two. The argument's supporting evidence comprises a science fiction television figure termed the post-post-gender cyborg woman. This figure is incarnated in Max, a transgenic woman in Dark Angel (Fox, 2000–2002), and Sharon, a female humanoid Cylon (or robot) in Battlestar Galactica (Sky1 and Sci Fi Channel, 2004–2009). The method is a multiperspectival cultural studies approach, which holistically interprets a text's cultural meanings through analyzing not only the text but also its transtextually related texts, production, and reception.
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{"title":"New Queer Horror Film and Television","authors":"Riana Slyter","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0214","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":"89465903","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:Pauli Murray was a twentieth-century Black writer, priest, and legal thinker who has been, for the last two decades or so, the subject of a recovery project. As a result, Murray is now regarded as a crucial player in the history of civil rights litigation; in US feminist organizing and theology; and in Black feminist critique in relation to all of the above. Further, the recovery of Murray's contributions has coincided with the narration of Murray as someone who was (or might have been, in another time) trans. Following the lead of Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston (1989), and focusing on Murray's life and work as a poet, this meditative essay considers Pauli Murray as an enduring figure in and for a Black trans literary past.
{"title":"Looking for Pauli, Pauli Murray's Trans Poetics","authors":"Cameron Awkward-Rich","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0169","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Pauli Murray was a twentieth-century Black writer, priest, and legal thinker who has been, for the last two decades or so, the subject of a recovery project. As a result, Murray is now regarded as a crucial player in the history of civil rights litigation; in US feminist organizing and theology; and in Black feminist critique in relation to all of the above. Further, the recovery of Murray's contributions has coincided with the narration of Murray as someone who was (or might have been, in another time) trans. Following the lead of Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston (1989), and focusing on Murray's life and work as a poet, this meditative essay considers Pauli Murray as an enduring figure in and for a Black trans literary past.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"1 1","pages":"169 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88475064","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":"Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality: “What Did You Do During the Second Wave, Daddy?”","authors":"Evan Brody","doi":"10.14321/qed.10.1.0218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88388188","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0173
A. Wright
So begins the refrain of the podcast, How to Survive the End of the World (HSEW) hosted by queer Black sisters, adrienne maree and Autumn Brown. The hosts, who share the identities of being writers, healing justice practitioners and organizers, decided to begin their podcast in November 2017, to center what must be known and practiced for living, existing, and resisting interlocking forms of social oppression. The hosts argue that they and the larger world are living through apocalyptic moments such as climate change, racial terror, queer and trans antagonism, and the violences of capitalism. HSEW would grow to have over 100,000 unique listeners. Their podcast is a significant site for my exploration of embodied abolition because of their sociopolitical commitments to abolition, social change, and healing. Carceral abolition is a political project to end policing and imprisonment by cultivating a society that challenges carcerality, which include systems of imprisonment, surveillance, and criminalization that construct a punitive culture that affects one’s embodiment in a carceral state. Embodied abolition links carceral abolition with healing justice, the work of centering individual and collective healing in movements for social change. I believe embodiment is deeply linked F O R U M
这是由黑人酷儿姐妹adrienne maree和Autumn Brown主持的播客《如何在世界末日生存》(HSEW)的副歌部分。主持人们拥有作家、治愈正义实践者和组织者的身份，他们决定在2017年11月开始他们的播客，集中讨论生活、存在和抵制相互关联的社会压迫形式必须知道和实践的东西。主持人认为，他们和更大的世界正在经历世界末日的时刻，比如气候变化、种族恐怖、同性恋和变性人的对抗，以及资本主义的暴力。HSEW将发展到拥有超过10万的独立听众。他们的播客是我探索具体废除的一个重要网站，因为他们对废除，社会变革和治愈的社会政治承诺。废除监禁是一项政治工程，旨在通过建立一个挑战监禁制度的社会来结束警察和监禁，其中包括监禁，监视和刑事定罪制度，这些制度构建了一种惩罚性文化，影响了一个人在监禁国家的体现。具体的废除将废除监禁与治疗正义联系起来，在社会变革运动中集中个人和集体治疗的工作。我相信化身与O O R U M有着深刻的联系
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0011
S. Rodriguez, H. Rakes, Kennedy Healy, L. Ben-Moshe
abstract:Healing justice, as with disability justice, and transformative justice/abolition, has largely been a queer-, trans-, woman of color-led intervention into the rights-based, reform-based, and neo/liberal agendas of whitestream movements. We see each of these movements for justice as deeply intertwined with the others, where interdependence and leaving no one behind are key commitments that are not compatible with the individualism of rights and reforms. In this roundtable conversation, we define depathologization and its relation to (queering) anti-normativity; discuss it as an important coalitional site of liberation; an intervention of abolitionist world-making. We argue that healing need not be understood in a corrective, carceral (medical) or ableist lens. Rather, healing justice models a philosophy and praxis of anticolonial resistance, communal interdependence, and abolitionist care. We offer the conversation as praxis and a way of learning and unlearning from each other.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0128
Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Wazina Zondon
{"title":"No Justice, No Peace: Queer Afghans in Life and Death, from Home to Diasporas","authors":"Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Wazina Zondon","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"12 1","pages":"128 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89338887","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0109
Sid P. Jordan, Cydney Brown, E. Pérez, Gia Ryan Olaes Miramontes, Héctor Planscencia, Jaden Fields, Luckie Alexander, Lylliam Posadas
{"title":"Research as a Practice of Collective Care and Resistance: A Roundtable Conversation with Transmasculine Health Justice: Los Angeles","authors":"Sid P. Jordan, Cydney Brown, E. Pérez, Gia Ryan Olaes Miramontes, Héctor Planscencia, Jaden Fields, Luckie Alexander, Lylliam Posadas","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"27 1","pages":"109 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89422662","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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