Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10740469
Jude Hayward-Jansen
Situating itself in the crosshairs of critical whiteness studies, queer studies, and Black studies, this essay considers the literary production of the (poor) white trash subject in the intersection of two moments of racial upheaval—the civil rights era of the US South and the “focus on the family” during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s—in which whiteness was under siege. Taking its cue from Toni Morrison's articulation of the white imaginary and W. E. B. Du Bois's history of the (Black) and white working class, this article looks at representations of queerness in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina to (1) understand the ways in which poor whiteness solidifies through queer moments of “bad” sex; and (2) reveal the ways in which “bad sex” retards white subjectivity/progressivity.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10740442
Thomas Dai
Transmigration refers to movements made across, between, through, or beyond spatial, spiritual, and bodily boundaries—motions to which queer and trans studies scholars have long imputed important political and social valences. This essay tracks the many transmigrations of the silkworm Bombyx mori, the source of commercial silk, through an archive of literary and critical writings by W. G. Sebald, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Jen Bervin. The author pays special attention to the trans-migration silkworms make through their own bodies, or metamorphosis, thus opening the way to a less anthropocentric account of transmigratory processes. This essay shows how silkworms and silk cross and recross the constructed lines dividing East and West, matter and language, natural and synthetic. In doing so, silkworms enter a broader collective of trans-migrating bodies in which certain bodies are granted free movement at the expense of other, often racialized, queer, or animal bodies. The author argues that the embodied, quotidian metamorphosis of the silkworm exemplifies an alternative mode of trans-migration that refuses transcendence and instead ties us, by silken threads, to the vicissitudes of the present moment.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10773991
Other| October 01 2023 About the Contributors GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 515. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10773991 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation About the Contributors. GLQ 1 October 2023; 29 (4): 515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10773991 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search Tahereh Aghdasifar is assistant professor of women's studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her research focuses on questions of sociality, opacity, and the economy.Thomas Dai is a PhD candidate in American studies at Brown University, where his work integrates queer studies with critical ethnic studies and the environmental humanities. His first book, a collection of essays on travel, place, and identity, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton. He earned his master's in fine arts from the University of Arizona and his undergraduate degree in evolutionary biology from Harvard University.Jude Hayward-Jansen holds a PhD in English and a graduate certificate in advanced feminist studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Positioned at the intersections of queer and feminist studies, South African studies, and American/Black studies, Hayward-Jansen's book project, “Save Our Children: Queer Discourse Formation in the U.S. and South Africa, 1977–2010,” examines the role of queerness in literature... You do not currently have access to this content.
{"title":"About the Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/10642684-10773991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10773991","url":null,"abstract":"Other| October 01 2023 About the Contributors GLQ (2023) 29 (4): 515. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10773991 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation About the Contributors. GLQ 1 October 2023; 29 (4): 515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10773991 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search Tahereh Aghdasifar is assistant professor of women's studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her research focuses on questions of sociality, opacity, and the economy.Thomas Dai is a PhD candidate in American studies at Brown University, where his work integrates queer studies with critical ethnic studies and the environmental humanities. His first book, a collection of essays on travel, place, and identity, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton. He earned his master's in fine arts from the University of Arizona and his undergraduate degree in evolutionary biology from Harvard University.Jude Hayward-Jansen holds a PhD in English and a graduate certificate in advanced feminist studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Positioned at the intersections of queer and feminist studies, South African studies, and American/Black studies, Hayward-Jansen's book project, “Save Our Children: Queer Discourse Formation in the U.S. and South Africa, 1977–2010,” examines the role of queerness in literature... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134936467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10740451
Naminata Diabate
Speaking of Queer African Cinema's scope, Lindsey Green-Simms declares that her book should not be read as definitive or encyclopedic. Rather, it should be seen as a useful set of readings and a model of reading for scholars, activists, and filmmakers. Independently of that claim, the insightful study in four chapters fulfills the encyclopedic (in its erudition) function in addition to accomplishing what the author set out to do. In its curation of queer cinematic texts from both francophone and anglophone Africa, the book not only brings to light a vibrant archive but also charts innovative reading praxes that may inspire other scholars.Primarily, Green-Simms sees her examination of avant-garde films, realist dramas, popular melodramas, occult films, and a music video as demonstrating that the types of resistance the texts restage “are always multilayered, always determined by a complex entanglement of racial, gendered, and sexual identities and national politics as well as by conventions of genre and format and modes of circulation” (9). This investment in reformulating resistance as multiple and sometimes conflicting takes seriously the queer cultural artifacts as well as the inspiriting and challenging material conditions that undergird their production, distribution, and enjoyment.As such, Queer African Cinema is a first. That firstness stems from Green-Simms's long-standing and serious engagement with the cinematic texts, their actors, producers, distributors, censors, audiences, festival organizers, activists, scholars, and sites of appearance. Her knowledge of the context, which stems from participating in conferences, attending film festivals, and interviewing different actors in numerous countries, is translated into a methodological approach—worth highlighting—that is illuminating yet subtle. For instance, complementing her formal analysis of the documentary Major! (dir. Annalise Ophelian, 2015) with the insights she gained from attending the first-ever Queer Kampala International Film Festival (QKIFF) in 2016, she shares, “When the credits rolled during the Kampala screening where I was present, there was a huge round of applause. There were a few audible ‘wows’ from the audience, and several members looked back at the screen, raised a fist, and echoed the film's call for resilience by claiming, loud enough for everyone to hear, ‘I'm still fucking here’ ” (165, my emphasis). This delicate yet notable phrase “where I was present” gives some credence to the author's experience while turning the text from mere ethnography to robust analysis. The author's experience serves equally as a forceful reminder that films are seen and engaged in the world, making the case, if need be, that formal analysis benefits from the live audience reaction, which is unmistakably mediated by the writer's biases and goals.The firstness that marks the publication of Queer African Cinema as a formative work reflects the status of most of its films, film festiva
谈到非洲酷儿电影的范围,林赛·格林-西姆斯宣称她的书不应该被视为权威或百科全书。相反,它应该被视为一套有用的阅读材料,以及学者、活动家和电影制作人的阅读模式。独立于这一说法之外,四章的深刻研究除了完成作者着手做的事情外,还履行了百科全书(在其博学中)的功能。这本书对来自非洲法语国家和英语国家的酷儿电影文本进行了整理,不仅揭示了一个充满活力的档案,而且还描绘了创新的阅读实践,可能会启发其他学者。首先,格林-西姆斯认为她对先锋电影、现实主义戏剧、流行情节剧、神秘主义电影和音乐视频的研究表明,文本所呈现的抵抗类型“总是多层的,总是由种族、性别、性别身份和国家政治,以及流派、格式和流通模式的惯例”(9)。这种将抵抗重新定义为多重的、有时是冲突的投资,严肃地对待了酷儿文化产物,以及支撑它们的生产、分销和享受的鼓舞人心和具有挑战性的物质条件。因此,酷儿非洲电影是第一次。这种第一源于格林-西姆斯长期以来与电影文本、演员、制片人、发行商、审查员、观众、电影节组织者、活动家、学者和放映地点的认真接触。她对背景的了解,源于参加会议、参加电影节、采访许多国家的不同演员,被转化为一种方法论方法,值得强调,这是有启发性的,但也很微妙。例如,补充她对纪录片《Major!》(dir。安娜丽丝·奥菲利亚(Annalise Ophelian, 2015年)通过参加2016年首届坎帕拉同性恋国际电影节(QKIFF)获得的见解,她分享说:“当我在场的坎帕拉放映时,演出表出现时,响起了热烈的掌声。观众中响起了几声“哇”,有几个人回头看了看屏幕,举起拳头,响应电影中对坚韧的呼吁,大声地说,“我还他妈的在这里。”(165,我的重点)。这个微妙而值得注意的短语“where I was present”给作者的经历提供了一些可信度,同时将文本从纯粹的民族志转变为强有力的分析。作者的经历同样有力地提醒我们,电影是被观看并参与到这个世界中来的,如果需要的话,这说明了形式分析受益于现场观众的反应,而观众的反应显然受到了作者的偏见和目标的影响。《非洲酷儿电影》的首次出版标志着它是一部形成性的作品,反映了它的大多数电影、电影节、场景和人物的地位。例如,穆罕默德·卡马拉(Mohamed Camara)的《Dakan》(1997)是西非第一部酷儿电影,通常被认为是第一部全球非洲电影。约瑟夫·盖·拉玛卡的《卡门·格伊》(2001)是第一章中讨论的两部作品之一,是第一部在银幕上描绘非洲女同性恋行为的作品,也是第一部也是唯一一部明确以同性恋为主角的作品,也是第一部非洲改编自Prosper msamrisame 1845年的中篇小说《卡门》,乔治·比才于1875年将其改编成歌剧。同样,加纳的苏格拉底·萨福的流行电影《恋爱中的女人》(1996)催生了《耶洗别》(2007-8),这是加纳的四集视频电影,也是在第一章中分析的,是第一批描绘女同性恋的非洲黑人电影之一。Wanuri Kahiu的《Rafiki》(2018)是第四章的关键文本,它在两个方面都是第一次,因为它是第一部在肯尼亚电影院放映的肯尼亚酷儿电影,也是第一部在戛纳电影节放映的肯尼亚电影。《我们生活的故事》吉姆·楚楚(Jim Chuchu, 2014)在书的介绍中占据了突出地位,成为第一部在国际电影节上放映的东非酷儿电影。在第二章中,格林-西姆斯将重点放在了《与影同行》上。该片改编自裘德·迪比亚的同名小说,于2019年在英国电影学院电影节上放映,成为第一部在国际上首映的尼日利亚酷儿电影。兰斯洛特·伊马森的《情感裂缝》(2003)——同一章节的另一个关键文本——是第一部将同性恋作为情节中心,并以同性伴侣之间的真实关系为特色的尼日利亚电影。在《酷儿非洲电影》一书中,读者将会欣赏到许多第一次酷儿电影节的启发性叙述。其中包括第三章讨论的南非走出非洲电影节,它在1994年成为非洲大陆上第一个官方认可的全国性酷儿电影节。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10740433
Karma R. Chávez
Laura Grappo's first book, Conjured Bodies: Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad, is an innovative exploration of the ways that the ambiguities of Latino identity have broader implications for race politics in the United States. Grappo argues that Latinos are both excessively visible and easily erased, and that the vexed status of Latinos in US culture not only puts Latino subjects into positions of precarity but also can function to bolster whiteness and promote anti-Blackness. She also shows how gender and sexuality are active components of these processes.The book comprises four chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion. In the introduction, Grappo situates herself in ongoing conversations within Latino studies about race, racialization, and Latinidad. In addition, she offers a theoretical justification for the notion of “conjuring,” or the ways the malleability of Latino identity and brownness get deployed and marshaled for purposes that impact Latinos and other racialized groups. In the first chapter, Grappo explores the famous case of the San Antonio Four, in which four young queer Latinas were catapulted into the “satanic panic” of the late 1980s and early 1990s and ended up incarcerated for child molestation. In the chapter she explores a documentary about the case, Southwest of Salem (2016), and what happened to one of the women in the aftermath. Her smart analysis of the documentary offers an important corrective to the taken-for-granted scholarly assumption that the film does only positive representational work. Moreover, her move to analyze one of the women's advocacy work after incarceration, as situated in Texas and along the Mexico-US border, is truly original and is convincing in the way that Grappo argues for the instrumentalization of some queer Latinos in the service of state projects while still relegating so many others to death and isolation.The second chapter takes the infamous case of Lorena (Gallo) Bobbitt of penis-severing notoriety. Here, too, Grappo details the instrumentalization of Latina/o/x identity, showing how in the 1990s and again in the 2010s in the wake of #MeToo when Gallo's story returned to the public eye, Gallo's proximity to whiteness, her immigration status, and her gender performance worked together not so much to make her seem a worthy victim (although her sentence was light), but to simultaneously promote immigration policy that attended to domestic violence and bolster white feminist appeals to addressing sexual and domestic violence. The analysis in this chapter is truly innovative, as Grappo deftly moves through different time periods and sets of discourse. Although the argument about the instrumentalization of Latina immigrant womanhood is convincing, Grappo might have pulled the argument about queer racialization through more fully.Chapter 3 considers what happened to the US football player Aaron Hernandez, who in 2017 committed suicide while incarcerated for murder and was posthumous
劳拉·格拉波(Laura Grappo)的第一本书《神奇的身体:当代拉丁裔中的酷儿种族化》(Conjured Bodies: Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad)是对拉丁裔身份的模糊性对美国种族政治产生更广泛影响的一种创新探索。格拉波认为,拉美裔人既过于显眼,又很容易被抹去,拉美裔人在美国文化中的令人烦恼的地位不仅使拉美裔人处于不稳定的地位,而且可以起到支持白人和促进反黑人的作用。她还展示了性别和性行为是这些过程的积极组成部分。这本书包括四章、引言和结束语。在引言中,格拉波将自己置于拉丁裔研究中关于种族、种族化和拉丁化的持续对话中。此外,她还为“变魔术”的概念提供了理论依据,即拉丁裔身份和棕色皮肤的可塑性被用来影响拉丁裔和其他种族化群体的方式。在第一章中,格拉波探讨了著名的“圣安东尼奥四人组”(San Antonio Four)案件。在该案中,四名年轻的拉丁裔同性恋者在20世纪80年代末和90年代初陷入了“撒旦般的恐慌”,最终因猥亵儿童而被监禁。在这一章中,她探讨了一部关于此案的纪录片《塞勒姆西南》(Southwest of Salem, 2016),以及其中一名女性在事件发生后的遭遇。她对这部纪录片的聪明分析,纠正了人们想当然的学术假设,即这部电影只做了积极的代表性工作。此外,她分析了一项妇女在被监禁后的倡导工作,该工作发生在德克萨斯州和墨西哥-美国边境,格拉波认为一些拉丁裔同性恋者在为国家项目服务的同时,仍然将其他许多人置于死亡和孤立的境地,这是真正的原创和令人信服的方式。第二章以臭名昭著的洛蕾娜(加洛)博比特割阳具案为例。在这里,格拉波也详细描述了拉丁/o/x身份的工具化,展示了在20世纪90年代和2010年代,随着#MeToo运动的兴起,加洛的故事重新回到公众视野,加洛与白人的接近、她的移民身份和她的性别表现如何共同作用,使她看起来不是一个有价值的受害者(尽管她的判决很轻),但同时要推动解决家庭暴力的移民政策,并支持白人女权主义者呼吁解决性暴力和家庭暴力问题。这一章的分析确实是创新的,因为格拉波巧妙地穿越了不同的时期和话语集。尽管关于拉丁裔移民女性被工具化的争论是令人信服的,格拉波可能已经把关于酷儿种族化的争论拉得更充分了。第三章考虑了美国足球运动员亚伦·埃尔南德斯(Aaron Hernandez)的遭遇,他于2017年因谋杀罪被监禁期间自杀,死后被发现因在球场上受到过多撞击而严重脑损伤。在这里,格拉波微妙而恭敬地处理了有关埃尔南德斯性取向的问题,当时有传言说他可能是一个未出柜的同性恋或双性恋男子。格拉波小心翼翼地避免落入可预见的陷阱,将压抑的性作为暴力的理由。相反,她展示了他的种族、性别和性身份如何与他的运动能力和财富交织在一起,形成了媒体对埃尔南德斯的叙述,将他的犯罪和过早死亡塑造成合乎逻辑的结果,同时将足球对他大脑的伤害降到最低。重要的是,Grappo在本章中引入了反黑人的概念,展示了非黑人拉丁裔身份的模糊性如何使反黑人话语有可能构成像埃尔南德斯这样的人物,因为他是一名高大的足球运动员,以咄咄逼人而闻名,而与这些特征相关的刻板印象往往留给黑人男性运动员。第四章进一步阐明了黑人与拉丁人的模糊性。格拉波首先讨论了声称自己是跨种族的白人女性蕾切尔·多尔扎尔(Rachel Dolezal)和2015年宣布变性的美国十项全能运动员凯特琳·詹纳(Caitlyn Jenner)。Grappo讨论了这些案例,提出了一个复杂的论点,即跨种族身份的主张与变性人并不相似,但拉丁人的流动性使得一些跨种族身份的主张至少在理论上是可能的。通过这种方式,拉丁裔种族身份的流动性可以用来为有问题的类比服务,这些类比表明,如果跨性别是可能的,那么跨种族也应该是可能的。在本章的第二部分,她思考了关于非裔拉丁美洲人种族化的辩论如何经常激发反黑人情绪,并将反黑人情绪命名为拉丁裔身份的组成部分。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10740460
Pete Sigal
In Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas, Susy J. Zepeda examines queer Chicana/Xicana feminists who seek a connection with Indigenous ancestors and living Indigenous peoples. This important book covers both well-known activists, such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Laura Aguilar, and less-known contemporary queer artists. In each case, Zepeda situates the individual in a historical narrative of colonization and decolonization, weaving between the present and the past, and examining connections with Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, California, and the Southwest.Zepeda's sources include oral histories, archival texts, the writings of feminists, and the artwork produced by a series of queer artists. Through these texts, she shows that colonization led to what she terms detribalization, an attempt to hide Indigenous heritage, and that more recently, activists from various groups have asserted a spiritual memory of Indigenous lineage. The central argument is that from the 1970s through today, Chicana/Xicana activists have invoked the memory of a queer Indigenous past both to assert their own spiritual and ancestral connections with a matriarchal past and to project an Indigenous form of a queer future.The book's strongest point is the development of what Zepeda, building on other scholars, calls a “spirit praxis,” or an understanding of knowledge formation in which feminists of color connect with Indigenous ancestors to transform contemporary lives and develop livable futures. Through such a spirit praxis, Zepeda argues for a different form of remembering that allows feminists to “trace and remember hidden histories and silences of queer Mesoamerican Indigenous ancestries” (1).Throughout the book, Zepeda uses the phrase “Xicana Indígena,” which intentionally elides the borderlands positionality that Anzaldúa, in her Borderlands/ Frontera (1987), famously asserted for Xicana feminists, instead arguing that a spirit praxis allows Xicana feminists to connect with indigeneity. The “X” at the beginning of the term Xicana relates both to memories of the Mexica and to the “X” recently placed at the end of terms such as Latinx and Chicanx, a crossing intended to avoid the gendering of the Spanish language.The term queer similarly plays a major role in Zepeda's text, often slipping between queer as identity marker and queer as verb. Thus, we have both “queering Mesoamerican diasporas” and “queer Indígena artists.” While such slippage is at times problematic for the book and her argument, Zepeda ably navigates much of this terrain to examine the ways Xicana artists and activists promote a memory designed to establish a queer connection with Indigenous ancestors that disrupts the “norm, barriers, and borders” (24) between the present and the past and the Indigenous and the mestiza. For Zepeda, the term queer asserts a nonlinear temporality, a chance to explore indigeneity, and a positionality related to two-spirit praxis and Latina lesbian histories.Zepeda
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10774005
James Farrer
Travis S. K. Kong's new book is a bold, insightful contribution to the growing literature on gay sexualities in three Chinese-speaking societies. Kong shows how the experiences of men growing up in the People's Republic of China (mostly Shanghai), the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Republic of China in Taiwan are all impacted by the rise of China. In contrast to the cultural and media studies approach dominant in the field, Kong's book uses life stories and first-hand ethnographic observations to compare young gay sexualities in these three regions. Building on the sexual storytelling method of Kong's mentor Kenneth Plummer (1995), to whom this book is dedicated, Kong's approach is sympathetic and humanistic, offering clear accounts of how young men experience growing up gay in these diverging contexts. Kong shows how men dealing with similar personal dilemmas develop distinctive attitudes and strategies under the influences of contrasting social structures and political environments. Kong thus sociologizes queer theory by paying equal attention to the social institutions and discourses key in shaping genders and sexualities. Sexuality and the Rise of China situates the study of sexuality in this politically volatile East Asian context. This is not just another study of transnational Sinophone discourses but a timely ethnography of the tense and rapidly evolving geopolitics of Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese sexualities. This focus alone makes the book an impactful contribution to sexuality studies in Asia.Kong's approach decenters Western-centric accounts of queer history by providing simultaneously transnational and local histories of the development of contemporary tongzhi identities and cultures. (Tongzhi is the Mandarin term adopted to refer to gay men across these contexts.) The book shows how the state, the market economy, and civil society (family, religion, NGOs, popular culture) shape the divergent pathways through which gay men become sexual subjects in these three societies. However, when we look at the microlevel situations of these men, commonalities also stand out. First, Kong argues that there is a double closet in all three societies characterized by the tension between heterosexuality and homosexuality and the tension between performing and not performing a traditional familial role as filial son. Influenced by patriarchal Chinese traditions, family life is the main site of struggle for most of these men. In contrast with the previous generations, the young generation generally chooses to come out publicly, although there are differences among these coming-out patterns in the three locales, with gay men in Taiwan more likely to be out actively and gay men in China still struggling between in and out. Hong Kong men seem somewhere in the middle. Second, in all three regions Kong shows the dominance of a homonormative masculinity with four features: masculinized gender performance, coupled intimacy, middle-class
Travis S. K. Kong的新书对三个讲中文的社会中越来越多的关于同性恋行为的文献做出了大胆而深刻的贡献。香港展示了在中华人民共和国(主要是上海)、香港特别行政区和中华民国台湾长大的男人的经历是如何受到中国崛起的影响的。与在该领域占主导地位的文化和媒体研究方法不同,孔的书使用生活故事和第一手的民族志观察来比较这三个地区的年轻同性恋行为。孔的导师肯尼斯·普卢默(Kenneth Plummer, 1995)的性故事讲述方法是他的基础,这本书是献给他的。孔的方法是富有同情心和人道主义的,清晰地描述了在这些不同的背景下,年轻男性是如何经历同性恋成长的。Kong展示了在不同的社会结构和政治环境的影响下,面对相似的个人困境的男人如何发展出不同的态度和策略。因此,孔通过同等关注塑造性别和性行为的关键社会制度和话语,将酷儿理论社会化。《性与中国的崛起》将性研究置于政治动荡的东亚背景下。这不仅仅是对跨国汉语话语的另一项研究,而且是对中国、香港和台湾性行为紧张和迅速演变的地缘政治的及时民族志。仅这一点就使这本书对亚洲的性研究做出了有影响力的贡献。孔的方法通过同时提供当代同治身份和文化发展的跨国和本地历史,使以西方为中心的酷儿历史叙述偏离了中心。(“同志”是在这些语境中用来指代男同性恋者的普通话术语。)这本书展示了国家、市场经济和市民社会(家庭、宗教、非政府组织、大众文化)如何塑造了同性恋者在这三个社会中成为性主体的不同途径。然而,当我们观察这些人的微观情况时,共性也很突出。首先,孔认为,在这三个社会中都存在双重密室,其特点是异性恋和同性恋之间的紧张关系,以及履行和不履行孝子这一传统家庭角色之间的紧张关系。受中国父权传统的影响,家庭生活是大多数这些男人奋斗的主要场所。与前几代人相比,年轻一代普遍选择公开出柜,尽管三地的出柜模式有所不同,台湾的男同性恋者更倾向于主动出柜,而大陆的男同性恋者仍在“出柜”和“出柜”之间挣扎。香港男人似乎介于两者之间。其次,在这三个地区,孔显示了一种具有四个特征的规范男子气概的主导地位:男性化的性别表现,夫妻亲密,中产阶级的敏感性,以及(尽管这在三个社会中表现不同)普遍的政治保守主义。第三,在香港、台湾和中国大陆,Kong认为,男性将一夫一妻制视为“残酷乐观主义”的一个例子,定义为你渴望的东西,但实际上是你繁荣的障碍(Berlant 2011)。作为回应,男性发展出各种策略来与一夫一妻制理想进行谈判,其中许多人形成了各种类型的非一夫一妻制关系。虽然孔强调结构和政治条件如何影响每个社会中人们如何处理这些困境,但这些困境的相似性质在他的民族志中始终突出,以家庭为中心。这三个地区的男同性恋者差异最大的一个领域是他们如何参与国家认同和政治活动。孔用同性恋民族主义的概念来展示三国政府对同性恋的支持和限制作用,揭示了三种不同版本的同性恋民族主义。香港将这些现象归类为台湾的合并性民族主义、香港的缺失性民族主义和中国大陆的实用主义民族主义。三种不同的文化/民族身份(台湾人、香港人和中国人)产生了三种不同的民族主义身份,进而产生了三种不同形式的公民政治活动,这些活动与国家对同性恋的立场不同地一致或相矛盾。因此,我们看到,性本质上与该地区正在进行的紧张的民族主义斗争有关。总的来说,《性与中国的崛起》在经验和概念上都具有高度的创新性。在立足于个人和地方叙事的同时,孔令聪巧妙地运用了大量西方和非西方文学。这本书将这些故事置于当前关注的话题中。 《出柜与家庭》、《酷儿社区与公地》、《粉色经济》、《酷儿之爱》、《同性恋民族主义》、《性全球化》、《中国性》),并提供了关于年轻同性恋性行为如何与国家、市场和公民社会的当地历史交织在一起的新见解。他并没有将这三个社会强行划分为一个线性的解放叙事,也没有将它们划分为开放还是封闭,而是强调了它们在多个维度上的异同。共同的历史和全球影响都产生了重要的共性,如新自由主义的企业家男子气概、新家庭主义、关系政治、同质性男子气概,以及作为残酷乐观主义的一夫一妻制理想。然而,我们看到这些人如何处理出柜,他们如何在互联网上相互联系,以及他们如何看待官方对同性恋的治理,都有显著的不同。其结果是一种跨国酷儿社会学,它在解决西方理论的同时,将西方作为社会和性转变的普遍范例去中心化。因此,孔将《性与中国的崛起》定义为对社会学中去殖民化运动的贡献。这本书也是一个生动的民族志的叙述,可以分配给本科生和研究生感兴趣的一个可读的,非西方视角的酷儿社会学。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10773977
Tahereh Aghdasifar
Gelare Khoshgozaran, a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist, gave her initial performance of “UNdocumentary” as part of the welcome to what we took from is the state exhibition at Queens Museum in New York City. This performance entailed a reading, by the artist and audience members, of Khoshgozaran's original declaration of asylum to the US government. When this produced empathetic and, in Khoshgozaran's words, “depressed” reactions from the audience, Khoshgozaran altered the performance, rewriting the document to reflect how she understands her life trajectory, as opposed to what queer asylum seekers are expected to produce to become subjects of and legible to empire. The next iteration of the performance is a refusal of legibility and empathy for a life narrative she, in some ways, lived, but simultaneously did not identify with. This article argues that the revised performance of “UNdocumentary” interrupts heteronormative space and time, crafting a queer otherwise world where relationality is pushed out of the realm of identification, inviting a bond forged through opacity rather than the violence of transparency.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10437282
Hil Malatino
Eric Stanley's work—up to and including Atmospheres of Violence—has focused on queer and trans lifeworlds that tarry with the effects and affects associated with living under siege, subject to myriad forms of policing, surveillance, lockdown, captivity, and isolation. Given a progressive political milieu that remains stubbornly focused on rights and inclusion, Stanley's sustained attention to structural violence and the material realities of immiseration is essential: a necessary counter that refuses to pretend that bodily autonomy and gender self-determination are extricable from the broader, saturating operations of racial capitalism. Their ongoing articulation of the necessity of abolitionist politics for the realization of trans and queer justice remains both timely and urgent. In the ongoing onslaught of transantagonism that takes the form of legislative attacks on trans people (especially trans youth), it is imperative that the abolitionist analysis Stanley articulates comes to the forefront of trans political theorizing and action. While the contemporary proposed, passed, and passing legislation (155 anti-trans bills introduced in 2022 as of October, and 131 in 2021, compared to 19 in 2018) is indeed draconian, it is crucial to recognize that even in a world wherein trans youth aren't systematically prevented from accessing affirming medical care and participating in sports, the racial and economic violence that stratifies health care, education, and access to organized extracurricular spaces of play and belonging will persist. The horizon of trans justice must not be limited to the rollback of such legislation; such rollback is necessary, but not sufficient.Stanley's work is not centered on the imagined figure of the (supported, loved, included) trans child, though it is not antagonistic to it. Rather, it focuses on the experience of those made to live a damaged life, a life that is “produced by, and not remedied through, legal intervention or state mobilizations” (39). Atmospheres of Violence examines forms of criminalization, precarity, exposure to violence, systemic misrecognition, and outright exclusion that shape experiences much more common among folks who are distant from the “booming whiteness and gender normativity of what consolidates under the sign of LGBT history” (3)—people who are poor, disabled, unhoused, trans, Black, brown, Indigenous. Coining the term near life, Stanley traces how such existences are estranged from, though “adjacent to the fully possessed rights bearing subject of modernity” (17). They think through an archive of trans/queer life and death in relation to what they call “overkill,” the kind of excessive, surplus violence that shapes many trans homicides. Overkill, for Stanley, pushes a body “beyond death” (33), attempting to end “not a specific person . . . but trans/queer life itself” (33). Specific bodies become metonymic stand-ins for unruly, ungovernable trans/queer vitalities and are punished excessi
埃里克·斯坦利(Eric Stanley)的作品《暴力氛围》(Atmospheres of violence)关注的是酷儿和跨性别者的生活世界,他们生活在围困之中,受到各种形式的警察、监视、封锁、囚禁和隔离的影响。考虑到进步的政治环境仍然顽固地关注权利和包容,斯坦利对结构性暴力和贫困的物质现实的持续关注是必不可少的:这是一种必要的反击,拒绝假装身体自治和性别自决可以从更广泛的、饱和的种族资本主义运作中解脱出来。他们对废奴主义政治对实现跨性别和酷儿正义的必要性的持续阐述,既及时又紧迫。在以立法攻击跨性别者(尤其是跨性别青年)为形式的跨性别对抗的持续冲击中,斯坦利阐明的废奴主义分析必须走到跨性别政治理论和行动的前沿。虽然当代提出、通过和通过的立法(截至10月,2022年提出了155项反跨性别法案,2021年提出了131项,而2018年提出了19项)确实很严厉,但重要的是要认识到,即使在一个跨性别青年没有被系统地阻止获得肯定医疗保健和参加体育运动的世界里,种族和经济暴力将医疗、教育、有组织的课外游戏空间和归属感将继续存在。跨性别司法的视野不应局限于此类立法的倒退;这种回滚是必要的,但还不够。斯坦利的作品并不以想象中的(被支持的、被爱的、被包容的)跨性别儿童为中心,尽管它并不与之对立。相反,它关注的是那些被迫过着受损生活的人的经历,这种生活是“由法律干预或国家动员产生的,而不是通过法律干预或国家动员来补救的”(39)。《暴力氛围》考察了刑事定罪、不稳定、暴力暴露、系统性误解和彻底排斥的形式,这些形式在那些远离“在LGBT历史标志下巩固的蓬勃发展的白人和性别规范”的人群中更为常见(3)——穷人、残疾人、无家可归者、变性人、黑人、棕色人种、土著居民。斯坦利创造了“近生活”这个词,他追溯了这种存在是如何被疏远的,尽管“与现代性的完全拥有的权利承载主体相邻”(17)。他们通过跨性别/酷儿的生与死档案来思考他们所谓的“过度杀戮”,这种过度的、多余的暴力塑造了许多跨性别杀人案。对斯坦利来说,过度杀戮会使身体“超越死亡”(33),试图结束“而不是一个特定的人……而是跨性别/酷儿生活本身”(33)。特定的身体成为不守规矩,无法控制的跨性别/酷儿活力的转喻替身,并因其对旨在安抚,顺从和非常狭隘的可能性和欲望的统治政权构成威胁而受到过度惩罚。斯坦利致力于思考这种近距离生活和过度杀戮的联系,包括一种逃亡式的研究形式,这种研究不以跨性别主体为对象,而是将暴力,臣民和非主体化的条件置于跨性别/酷儿生活的不可区分区域,同时,由于这种不可区分,这也是一个抵抗,叛乱,发明和实验的空间。他们将“跨性别/酷儿”表述为一种共鸣体验的非同一性场所,而不是一种身份,并以几种方式提到它:作为“消极的集体”,“主体的空虚,但被命名为客体,通过对即将到来的激进政治的希望追溯可见”,以及“身份崩溃和活力工作的地平线”(26 - 27)。他们的作品促使读者提出一些非常值得集体(尽管可能总是暂时的)回应的问题:当跨性别/酷儿身份不是集体/社区归属的基础时,什么样的政治联盟是可能的?一个拒绝将易读性作为包容基础的政治会做什么?培养自由人文主义以外的活力,工作以外的活力是什么意思?对这些问题的回应可能会从《暴力氛围》所表现的那种转变开始——转向接近生活和过度杀戮的坩埚,远离公平和包容的承诺式进步叙事,以及伴随而来的国家将平等分配生活机会的幻想,只要它能做到。这本书的一个值得注意的地方是,它探讨了跨性别/酷儿暴力的现象学,没有耸人听闻,也没有把它渲染成一系列特殊的例子或夸张的极限案例。相反,斯坦利将这种暴力描述为平凡——因此,是一种氛围。那包裹。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10437296
Zorimar Rivera Montes
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