Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-11028990
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Simon Reader
This essay argues that bitchiness is an art form, a style of misanthropy and satiric dissonance that breaks with pious norms of mundane accuracy and “niceness.” Like the more commonly discussed category of camp, bitchiness is an off-color queer sensibility born of social marginalization, reveling in upsetting good taste for laughs. Traversing literary studies and popular culture, this essay tells the story of bitchy luminaries in three historical scenes: the tart wit of nineteenth-century satirists Jane Austen, George Gordon Byron, and Oscar Wilde; classic Hollywood divas and their homosexual contemporaries such as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams; and the drag culture increasingly visible since the 1980s.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-11028982
Dina Georgis
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-11029006
Joseph Pizza
This article explores John Cage's “62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham,” a love poem dedicated to the poet's longtime partner. Though scholars of Cage's writing and music tend to ignore the queer context in which his work was created, this study attempts to reconcile the poet's art with his life. As a homosexual couple in the postwar period, Cage and Cunningham observed a closeted silence throughout their lives together, preferring to refer to one another as collaborators rather than romantic partners or lovers. While such strategies were not uncommon, the couple's use of Zen philosophy to imbue their silent relationship with an almost religious purpose distinguishes them from many others. Indeed, the poem embodies this situation well. Offering, at one moment, a glimpse into the couple's private life, at the next, the piece consistently subverts this gesture through various avant-garde techniques. In fact, in its unusual use of typography and its experimental performance history, Cage's mesostic reimagines the space and terms of traditional love poetry — much like his relationship with Cunningham reworked traditional gender roles. By bringing these aspects of Cage's life and work to light, this article aims to provide scholars with a fuller understanding of postwar queer poetics.
本文探讨了约翰-凯奇的《62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham》，这是一首献给诗人长期伴侣的情诗。尽管研究凯奇的写作和音乐的学者往往忽视其作品创作的同性恋背景，但本研究试图调和诗人的艺术与生活。作为战后的一对同性恋伴侣，凯奇和坎宁安在共同生活的整个过程中都保持着隐秘的沉默，他们更愿意称对方为合作者，而不是浪漫的伴侣或恋人。虽然这种策略并不罕见，但这对夫妇利用禅宗哲学将他们的沉默关系赋予一种近乎宗教的目的，使他们与其他许多人不同。事实上，这首诗很好地体现了这种情况。这首诗一会儿让人窥见这对夫妇的私生活，一会儿又通过各种前卫手法颠覆了这种姿态。事实上，通过对排版的不同寻常的使用和实验性的表演历史，凯奇的《间奏曲》重新想象了传统爱情诗的空间和术语--就像他与坎宁安的关系重新塑造了传统的性别角色一样。通过揭示凯奇生活和作品的这些方面，本文旨在让学者们更全面地了解战后同性恋诗学。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-11029022
Rohit Chakraborty
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-11028998
Adrienne Adams
Gregory D. Victorianne's Buti Voxx is a window into the diffuse erotic networks across the African diaspora who forged international information networks between the 1980s and early 2000s. The Afro-erotic zine occasions an opportunity to tease out what the author calls ephemera fever, the compulsion across contemporary Black queer studies and queer of color critique to frame the trace as evidence of imagining otherwise. The author attunes to the frictions, or what Keguro Macharia calls “frottage,” between the production of Buti Voxx and José Esteban Muñoz's paradigm of “ephemera as evidence” in an effort to query the conceptual pressures undergirding the process of scaling the quotidian to the erotic and political blueprint. The conundrum of the black vernacular is that objects like Buti Voxx become locked into the affective expectations and hermeneutic feedback loops set in motion by altruistic grammars like ephemera. Frottage of ephemera is a launchpad for thinking through how grammatical possibility concurrently functions as hermeneutic enclosure.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10920651
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10938512
Alexander Borsa, Miriam Miyagi, Kelsey Ichikawa, Kai De Jesus, Kai Jillson, M. Boulicault, Sarah S. Richardson
{"title":"The New Genetics of Sexuality","authors":"Alexander Borsa, Miriam Miyagi, Kelsey Ichikawa, Kai De Jesus, Kai Jillson, M. Boulicault, Sarah S. Richardson","doi":"10.1215/10642684-10938512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10938512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516785,"journal":{"name":"GLQ","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139640813","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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