Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1177/13634607241266430
Hazuki Kaneko, Diana Khor
Postwar Japan has built a new self-image as a peaceful, ethnically homogeneous island nation, obscuring the imperialist past. In this context, same-ethnic/racial partnering or so-called ethnic endogamy has been reinforced, whether gay or straight, as a normative sexual desire and practice. Japanese people who engage in intimate relationships with foreigners are potentially considered deviant and subject to social marginalization. Drawing on in-depth interview data, this research focuses on the experiences of Japanese gay men with such peripheral desires, examining how they negotiate their partner preferences when encountering social disapproval or stigma. Further, this research also discusses how their racialized desire intersects with their queer sexuality, simultaneously resisting and perpetuating same-ethnic/racial partnering normativity.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1177/13634607241266082
Linda Roland Danil
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Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1177/13634607241267087
Amber Husain
This article examines the artist Helen Chadwick’s 1989 digital montage series Viral Landscapes as an intervention in discourses of immunity circulating around the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the UK. The Viral Landscapes are unusual for art of this period in working closely with medical concepts and technologies, if only to problematise the ways in which these were mobilised. Strategically appropriating ideas of ‘psychic immunology’ emergent at the time, the work, I argue, formulates an affective ground for the extension of immunological responsibility beyond the confines of human bodies and societies. Through a close examination of the artist’s methods and the work’s aesthetics, I identify therein an alternative model of the subject from the closed bodily system and fixed identity presupposed by contemporary biomedicine. Influenced in particular by Deleuzo-Guattarian theories of machinic desire, as well as queer-theoretical constructions of the sexual subject as polymorphous, Chadwick’s model of the psychically immune subject seems to be grounded in a vital sexual energy, constructed through interpenetration by multiple, diffuse entities in ecological relation.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/13634607241267090
Simon Clay
Chemsex has received increasing scholarly attention over the past few years and is frequently defined as the sexualised use of synthetic drugs. There is an emerging binary within the literature on chemsex that portrays it as either inherently risky or liberatory. This binary assumes that chemsex is a stable category of sex and always involves integrating ‘dangerous’ synthetic substances into sex. Drawing from interviews with 16 gay/queer men and individuals who identified with the gay community from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, I critique the underpinning assumptions of this binary and show how these individuals used chemsex as a technique of ‘wild self-care’. This unique model of self-care recuperates ‘dangerous’ practices in emancipatory and life-affirming ways. It shows how chemsex is both risky and liberatory in ever-changing and unexpected ways.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/13634607241264955
Alamgir Alamgir, Emily Gray, Peter Kelly, Seth Brown
This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The paper also considers the resilience that the community developed during this time. Drawing on Butler’s concept of precarity and liveability, we in this article demonstrate how the precarious positionalities of Khawaja Sara and Hijra were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter in Pakistan. 10 members of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities were engaged in face-to-face interviews, and the paper demonstrates how community is made and maintained by Khawaja Sara and Hijra, who are amongst the most vulnerable, marginalized, oppressed, and isolated people in South Asian communities. Whilst not shying away from the violence that characterises the lives of participants, who face familial rejection, community, and social pressure to conform to strict cultural gender norms, and sexual and physical violence, the paper also works to highlight the ongoing adaptability and resilience of these ancient communities through engaging with the ways in which participants supported each other through the pandemic.
本文利用经验数据，深入分析了 COVID-19 大流行对巴基斯坦开伯尔巴图克瓦地区白沙瓦市 Khawaja Sara 和 Hijra 社区生活的影响。本文还探讨了该社区在此期间发展起来的复原力。借鉴巴特勒的 "不稳定性 "和 "可居住性 "概念，我们在本文中展示了卡瓦贾-萨拉和希吉拉的不稳定性是如何在 COVID-19 大流行期间及其后在巴基斯坦加剧的。本文对 Khawaja Sara 和 Hijra 社区的 10 名成员进行了面对面访谈，展示了 Khawaja Sara 和 Hijra 是如何创建和维护社区的，他们是南亚社区中最弱势、最边缘化、最受压迫和最孤立的群体。本文并不回避参与者生活中的暴力问题，他们面临着家庭的排斥、社区和社会的压力，必须遵守严格的文化性别规范，还面临着性暴力和身体暴力，本文还通过探讨参与者在大流行病中相互支持的方式，强调了这些古老社区的持续适应能力和复原力。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/13634607241261842
Mie Birk Jensen
When Viagra was first introduced, it was presented as a new pharmaceutical with potentially revolutionizing effects in various forms of media across the globe. While it is no longer a new pharmaceutical, it still continues to find its way into news media. This article explores the continuous circulation of Viagra in news media over time, pointing to a global impact of the relationship between pharmaceutical advertising and news media, which play into reconfigurations of masculinity. Through an analysis of Danish news articles mentioning Viagra in different times, it is argued that Viagra is not only made news-worthy as a pharmaceutical; it has penetrated our language as a phallic metaphor and metonymic concept through which human and non-human actors become valorized as im/potent in different ways. This is further discussed as a potential indication of how gendered processes of medicalization can affect our understanding of the capabilities of the human body, and by extension the language we make use of to grasp the world we live in, as well as ourselves.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-19DOI: 10.1177/13634607241262147
Nisrine Chaer
In today’s Lebanon, Syrian trans refugees face intersecting systems of violence that position them as hypervisible ‘deviants’ in multiple ways: as refugees without formal legal residency, as trans individuals without congruent gender markers, and as working-class individuals. Attending ethnographically to the notions of hypervisibility and (dis)respectability that underpin such deviances, this article explores how the Lebanese security-morality apparatus enforces hypervisibility on Syrian trans women by eroding their respectability and privacy. In the context of recent crackdowns on Syrian-majority areas and LGBT spaces, I look specifically to how (dis)respectability is deployed by and against Syrian trans women in their crisscrossing of the boundaries of both a ‘trans closet’ and ideals of middle-class Lebanese (cis)womanhood. My analysis evolves the concept of respectability to account for how my interlocuters navigate the permeability of their private spaces, secure themselves against potential harm, and assert their sovereignty. This is accomplished through the use of two strategies: ‘respectable passing’—investing in markers of class and citizenship over those of gender, and ‘disrespectable affinities’—engaging in a politics of the vulgar and forging social connections between hypervisible communities, effecting alternative forms of sociality that unsettle the border between trans and cis Syrians in the racialized and classed order of contemporary Beirut.
在当今的黎巴嫩，叙利亚变性难民面临着相互交织的暴力系统，这些系统以多种方式将她们定位为超可见的 "异类"：没有正式合法居留权的难民、没有一致性别标记的变性人以及工人阶级。本文从人种学的角度探讨了支撑这种偏差的超可见性和（不）可尊敬性的概念，探讨了黎巴嫩安全-道德机构如何通过侵蚀叙利亚变性女性的可尊敬性和隐私来强化她们的超可见性。在最近对叙利亚人占多数的地区和 LGBT 空间进行镇压的背景下，我特别研究了叙利亚变性女性在跨越 "变性壁橱 "和黎巴嫩中产阶级（顺式）女性理想的界限时，是如何利用（不）可尊重性来对付她们的。我的分析发展了 "可尊敬性 "的概念，以说明我的对话者是如何驾驭其私人空间的渗透性、保护自己免受潜在伤害并维护其主权的。这是通过两种策略来实现的：可敬的通行证"--投资于阶级和公民身份的标志，而非性别的标志；"不可敬的亲缘关系"--参与庸俗政治，在超隐形社区之间建立社会联系，实现另一种形式的社会性，在当代贝鲁特的种族化和阶级化秩序中，打破叙利亚跨性别者和顺性别者之间的界限。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.1177/13634607241264319
Megan Ingram, Kai Jacobsen
Queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people are frequently used to represent pain, suffering, shame, and disgust in dominant heteronormative and ableist discourses. However, many queer, trans, and crip scholars, artists, and activists have reclaimed previously pathologized and denigrated experiences as sites of pleasure and joy. Importantly, this queercrip approach to joy does not position joy as an opposite or replacement for pain, but embraces joy and pain as simultaneous and co-constitutive. This essay explores the proliferations, potentialities, and limitations of queercrip joy as a site of resistance to cisheteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness. Specifically, we spotlight gender euphoria and disabled joy alongside the scholarship of authors like Sara Ahmed and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and the intersecting fields of crip theory, queer theory, trans studies, and affect theory. Ultimately, we argue that queercrip joy exists both because of and in spite of the pain of enduring oppression and physical and psychological pain. As such, queercrip joy is not merely a pure happy object, but a complicated formulation of intimacy, pleasure, pain, validation, refusal, and relationality–an indicator of the very attachments that allow us to be affected. Therefore, celebrating queercrip joy is an insufficient yet necessary tool for queer, trans, and disabled liberation.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1177/13634607241263437
Ivan Bujan
This paper argues that integrating Native American art, tradition, and healing practices into public health offers an effective intervention for revitalizing conventional sexual health strategies within Native American and Two-Spirit communities. To illustrate, the paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of various practices employed by Sheldon Raymore, a Two-Spirit artist and storyteller from the Cheyenne River Sioux nation, including performance, tipi-making, and beading. To bridge the gap between care methodologies in settler clinics, focused on behavior change and biomedicine, and Native American healing practices rooted in tradition and ceremony, the paper introduces a conceptual framework termed “chronic survivance.” This framework merges Western epidemiological terminology with the Indigenous concept of “survivance,” coined by Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, which emphasizes themes of Indigenous survival and resistance amidst ongoing adversity. By employing this framework, the paper challenges the conventional understanding of HIV epidemiology, proposing that chronicity involves a complex interplay of discursive, cultural, and biopolitical practices, thus amenable to decolonization. Chronic survivance emerges as a tool for reimagining Indigenous well-being, bridging disparate traditions, and sustaining the enduring essence of Indigeneity amidst the persistence of U.S. settler colonialism.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/13634607241257397
Fran Amery
In the last few years, latent anti-trans sentiment within some corners of UK feminism has coalesced into a highly organised ‘gender critical’ movement that has seen considerable success in influencing policy and public debate. This article addresses ‘gender critical’ feminism as a lobbying movement, examining its orientation towards governance and power. It argues that the ‘gender critical’ movement must be understood as a biopolitical project indebted both to sexological work aimed at ‘normalising’ trans and intersex minds and bodies, and to 1970s feminist responses to this work. This project strives for the power to manage trans populations, both via direct surveillance of trans lives and indirectly, via attempts to counter the supposed threat to a broader cisfeminist population management project posed by trans identification.
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