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  Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

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  Ronald Becker Miami University

  March 11, 2009

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  Note Although so much has already been said about Nadya Suleman in the popular press (and I’m sure ... clear, I’m not troubled by her “irresponsible” decision to implant 6 embryos at a time when she was ... (I’m not saying that that wasn’t irresponsible, just that I’m not all that troubled by it.) I suppose ...
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  Queer Privates, Public Protests

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  Queers for Public Education Toby Beauchamp, Abigail Boggs, Cynthia C. Degnan, and Liz Montegary -- University of California, Davis

  May 03, 2010

  2 comments

  Queer Privates, Public Protests violence university queer privatization education california Curator's Note Please note: this video includes visual documentation of police violence. This issue of In Media Res is inspired by the fourth annual Queer St ...
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  Up with Dead Privates

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  Kathleen Frederickson UC Davis

  May 07, 2010

  evacuated any possible private subjectivity-as-property, deadening him without putting him to rest. Medea’s ... and, possibly learn to enjoy their company.  But there is little discussion—either in LaBruce’s Otto or ... (un)life? Is it, as Otto asks, possible to come back from the dead?   And, if so, do we want to? ...
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  Lady Gaga's Phallicity

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  August 05, 2010

  7 comments

  Lady Gaga's Phallicity gender Lady Gaga phallus queer telephone Curator's Note What has Lady Gaga got to do with the future of queer theory, gender theory and the phallus? We argue that the first 2 minutes and 13 seconds of the uncut version of ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...
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  The Queer Geek Adonis

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  Matthew french Old Dominion University

  September 26, 2013

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  distinctions between the queer geek body as normative over other possibilities.  This is a shift in discourse, ... defends his inferred asexuality in one clip. As a possible asexual queer representation, Sheldon proves ...
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  Dollhouse and Echo(e)s of Future Queerness

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  Roxanne Samer University of Southern California

  October 04, 2013

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  Dollhouse and Echo(e)s of Future Queerness queer Much Ado About Joss Whedon Eliza Dushku Dollhouse Curator's Note When one thinks “queer TV,” Joss Whedon’s short-lived series Dollhouse (Fox, 2009-2010) is unlikely to come to mind, as it is perhaps mo ...
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  Double Double Miley Trouble: Notes Toward a Queer Aesthet(h)ics of Duplicity

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  Ryan Tracy Independent

  May 19, 2014

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  Muñoz’s work in order to provisionally sketch out the possibilities of a queer aesthetics, and ethics, ...
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  The Ethics and Erotics of Queer "Wrecking"

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  May 23, 2014

  3 comments

  simultaneously the sense of cathartic emotional release and complete stillness- tearing up and a tear. Possibly ...
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  Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  November 11, 2014

  6 comments

  Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism video games video game studies trauma small games realism queerness and games conference queer lives queer games movement queer qgcon LGBTQ Indie Game Developers indie identity performance glitch aesthetic ...

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