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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"queer space"”.
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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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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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Lesbian identities and everyday space in contemporary urban Russia
… as a socio-cultural construct and on ‘queer’ identities and experiences generally focuses on Western European or Anglo-American societies. Sexuality and homosexuality remain relatively unexplored fields of enquiry within Russian studies, even if it is usually acknowledged that the …
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Queering community : collective housing in Los Angeles
What is queer architecture? What are the spatial implications of this identity, community, and history? And how can queerness in architecture generate new modes of living? Queer spaces are often marginal spaces: overlooked, under lit, and co-opted spaces. However, they were also the political, …
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Assigned Disaster at Birth
… autofictitious diary and scrapbook of a queer space alien stuck in a humanoid body, a trans transhuman, written mostly in verse. The space alien speaker of these poems moves through multiple marginalized human identities ultimately remembering it isn't human at all. Through these poems, …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
Queers of colour are in real and constant danger as they are not seen to belong neatly to either Western queer culture (due to their blackness) or African culture (due to their queerness). This discursive violence legitimizes actual violence on black queer bodies. This research project uses …
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Paddle faster I hear techno music: mapping the prehomosexual and the posthomosexual in the souths of James Dickey and Samuel R. Delany
… what I call the posthomosexual by presenting a queer space in rural Georgia which retains the differentiating language of the prehomosexual. This posthomosexual space employs that language to generate unbridled, and problematic, utopian pleasure. I also discuss how labor is presented as another …
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Performing Queer-Femininities: Passing, Playing, and Camp
… dissertation research examines the tensions in queer feminine expressions within the queer community, as femininity is a contentious site of both restriction and liberation. While femininity is often seen as disempowered, artificial, and a replication of heteropatriarchal culture, I argue that …
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"If It Is Sincere, It Will Rouse Hostility": The Freewoman, Feminisms, and Print Culture in Early Twentieth-Century England
… as a publishing genre, The Freewoman created a space and a community that were intensely political, while allowing for the expression of opinions and emotions that were perceived as destructive. It is in the alternative space that The Freewoman created, I offer, that its uniqueness and …
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
… This dissertation argues that the trope of queer havruta, which refers to literary images of traditional Jewish study pairs that can be read as queer through a modern lens, has established its place in the canon of queer romance and contributed to the shaping of Jewish queer culture. …
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Of Gods and Girls: The Teen Superheroine in British and American Girls' Comics from 1940-1984
… the super-girl occupies and embodies a fluid space that allows her to move between gendered identities and move beyond the restrictive gendered norms that made up much of the world of twentieth century teenage girls. Using the work of Michelle J. Smith on New Imperialism and teenage girls in …
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Queerly as the Night: Towards Post-Post-Colonialism, a Theory of Rhizomic Intelligence
<p><em>Queerly as the Night</em> is a personal and mythic denial of post-colonialism. The manuscript works to deliver accounts of contemporary colonialism between an American daughter and her Indian, immigrant father, demonstrating the ways in which colonialism assigned to the prefix, “post,” …
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Sex, aesthetics, and modernity in the British romance of Italy, 1870-1914
… Anchoring my analysis in the categories of space, sex, and genre, I illuminate the relations between politics and form and contend that the intra-European distinction between north and south structured Victorian discourses of history, sexuality, and aesthetics.