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Showing 1 to 20 of 1068 for “"Queer"”.
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Queer Migrations
… to bear on our shifting understanding of both queers and migrants into the realm of contemporary art practice. It focuses on four major projects that I had exhibited over a ten-year period starting in 2004 and attempts to devise a theoretical link between these works. It is my intention through …
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Queer Natives
… of black diasporic culture and politics. ""Queer Natives"" begins from the premise that the black diaspora poses a historical and conceptual challenge to dominant histories and theories of sexuality in queer studies, which have tended to privilege white Euro-American experiences. Taking the …
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Keep Austin Queer: Performativity of Queer Space in Austin, Texas
Queer spaces can be physical or conceptual spaces, depending on the people who are occupying them. Austin, Texas is a city known for its progressive nature, even while being a city in the middle of Texas. That being said, Austin does not have an overabundance of physical queer spaces as other …
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Queer trash and archival messes: The politics of queer curation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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The Queer Mummer
… and the Newfoundland tradition of mummering, The Queer Mummer deconstructs gender norms and homophobic attitudes surrounding being openly queer. The Queer Mummer serves as reminder that mummering, itself, is a custom that queers space. Both drag and mummering are tools for the multi-vocal …
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… literature and film in order to discuss queer theory and its ability to resonate with, and bring to light, specifically Brazilian concerns. The main argument of this dissertation is that, on one hand, such ideas and theories may change local perspectives; and that, on the other, they are …
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Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
… to the past. My dissertation, Are They Family?: Queer Parents and Queer Pasts in Popular Culture, examines how American film, television, and literature between 2005 and 2016 construct relationships among LGBTQ people across recent history in generational and familial terms. These works queer the …
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De-policing queer possibilities
… and engagements of policing on racialized queer subjects. Through case and textual analysis, this project examines Black and Brown subjectivities that do the work of imagination, survival, and resistance that contest their possibilities of living. Bringing together Queer theorist and Black …
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Reading the Queer Renaissance
"""Reading the Queer Renaissance"" puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the 1980s and 90s, and articulates this efflorescence of queer creativity to the contemporary ""renaissance"" of radical gay and lesbian political …
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Black, Queer, and Blessed: Toward a Biblically Based Black, Queer Narrative of Leadership
… proposes a new model of leadership: Black, queer, inspired leadership. It constructs this new model of leadership by identifying six major attributes. These attributes are self-knowledge, discernment, agency, creativity, liminality, and power tempered by compassion. These six attributes …
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Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism
In challenging normative social relations, queer cultural studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. I do so by investigating how global economic relations provide an allegorical …
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Re/naming queer Asian America: Toward a queer-raciolinguistic perspective for education policy analysis
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Queer Public Figures in Biopics
This work considers the impact of queer representation and queer visibility in the biopic genre, with a specific focus on the morality of artifice when representing the life story of a real figure. How does a figure’s representation impact their legacy, reputation, and the perception of queer …
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Queer(y)ing LGBTQ+ Advertisements
… print advertisements and mobilises insights from queer theory to challenge both normative scholarly assertions within the literature and associated (advocated) advertising practice. Adopting an interpretivist-queer position, this study identifies the types of LGBTQ+ advertising approaches …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
<p>Bringing together queer and feminist theory, this dissertation examines Shakespeare’s representations of pregnancy divorced from their promised duration and promised end, revealing that the pregnant body is not wholly symbolic of futurity, chastity, or even heterosexual desire. In queer readings …
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Queer Baroque: Sarduy, Perlongher, Lemebel
<p>This dissertation analyzes the ways in which queer and trans people have been understood through verbal and visual baroque forms of representation in the social and cultural imaginary of Latin America, despite the various structural forces that have attempted to make them invisible and exclude …
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Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
… Victorian period, to assert a connection between queer object choice and generic hybridity. It contextualises the works in question as being on the cusp of both a liberalisation of traditional boundaries drawn between verse and prose, and a revolution in the conception of same-sex desire. Through …
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Les-Be-Queer: A Historical Exploration of Queer People at Stellenbosch University, c. 1987-2024
… activism paved the way for the establishment of queer student societies on campus, further challenging societal norms. This thesis delves into the history of institutionalized queerness at Stellenbosch through the lens of its L+ society, Les-Be-Gay, established in 1999 and now known as QueerUS. …
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Stories of Stonewall Warehouse: Queer Memories of Space and Place and its Potential for Queer Worldmaking
This thesis examines queer public memory and how queer people communicate the significance of queer space, place, and worldmaking through their memories. Through a qualitative study of Stonewall Warehouse, the only gay bar in San Marcos, Texas that closed in 2023, I utilized autoethnography and …
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Queer Futures, Queering Care: Diamond Mining and (Theorizing) Queer Social Reproduction in the Northwest Territories, Canada
… Territories, Canada, at the intersection of queer, feminist, and Indigenous critical theory. My inquiry was rooted in an analysis of how commitments to and practices of care affect queer folks’ material, social, and relational experiences of diamond mining in the north, remaining grounded in …
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