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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"queer politics"”.
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This side of midnight: Recovering a queer politics of disco club culture
… mapped onto connections to LGBT identity politics. Often, these studies failed to adequately explore the embodied experiences of disco dancers within the club environment, focusing instead on textual analyses of music, linear histories of disco’s development, or the perspectives of …
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Queer Italy: Contexts, Antecedents and Representations
… that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and queers are advocating in Italy. The dissertation expands current scholarship concerned with the links between identity, subjectivity and sexuality in Italy. A guiding hypothesis is that long-rooted political and religious ideologies, practices and …
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Judicial rhetoric and radical politics: sexuality, race, and the fourteenth amendment
“Judicial Rhetoric and Radical Politics: Sexuality, Race, and the Fourteenth Amendment” takes up U.S. judicial opinions as performances of sovereignty over the boundaries of legitimate subjectivity. The argumentative choices jurists make in producing judicial opinion delimit the grounds upon which …
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How to make Facebook your friend: queer self-presentation on a heteronormative social network site.
This paper explores queer self-presentation on the social network site, Facebook, emphasizing gendered functionality, gender and queer politics and presentations of gendered identities. It provides a review of early critical cyberculture studies, identity performance and queer theoretical …
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Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
Staging [In]visible Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, …
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Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance
… I also explore the tensions between politics, aesthetics and spiritual practice; in particular, queer and trans politics, a timbre-centred vocal aesthetics and chaos magick, shamanic and Buddhist spiritual practices. This work constitutes part of a larger project of attempting to …
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Diversity is (not) good enough: Unsettling White Settler Colonialism within Toronto's Queer Service Sector
This dissertation explores the ways in which queer service provision and non-Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and trans (LGBTQ)-identified service providers in downtown Toronto can contribute to and become complicit in white settler colonial projects. During this study based on in-depth …
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Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, and Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People with Trans-Identified Partners
… participate in activism?</p> <p>This work queers sociology by illustrating and considering the potential consequences of normative categories of gender and sexuality in relation to everyday lived experience. This project brings out the tension for many cis partners between a desire to …
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Queer enough? Contested terrains of identity deployment in the context of gay and lesbian public activism in Poland
… assimilationist strategies and the anti-identity queer politics.
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‘Destructive Urges’: Sensorial Excess in Punk Art between New York and London, 1969-1978
… sensorial excess in their work and engage with queer feminist ethico-political theories of noise to assert a queer feminist reading of COUM Transmissions’ Punk art praxis. Finally, in the third chapter I demonstrate how Derek Jarman’s satirical film Jubilee (1978) offers a contemporaneous …