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  Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires

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  Amanda Phillips University of California, Davis

  November 13, 2014

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  This week, I’m contributing a critical fanvid made as part of my research work on the video game ... modes of radical action outside of demands for direct resistance, a crucial space to hold open when ...
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  “Half an hour ago, I was a white-haired Scotsman:” Neuroqueerness in Doctor Who

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  Mars Nicolí

  September 08, 2023

  iteration of the character as a woman. Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth canonized the possibility of gender ... a more traditional, masculine hero role, the Doctor’s alien status already placed them somewhat outside ... universe with them.   References [Pepsi Man]. (2017, June 17).  Patrick Troughton on the possibilities of ...
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  Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

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  Ronald Becker Miami University

  March 11, 2009

  5 comments

  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 Othering of Los Espookys

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  Kristen Leer

  November 17, 2022

  identities and narrative styles that expand their horror, and Los Espookys horror, outside of the expected ... creates opportunities for marginalized narratives and characters to exist within and outside the bounds of ... queerness of Los Espookys becomes prevalent as “all the characters live outside acceptable socio-sexual ...
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  Queer Pornogenesis

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  John Paul Stadler Duke University

  June 26, 2018

  studies and porn studies diverge in notable ways. I’m curious what their shared disciplinary origin can ...
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  Nelson Sullivan's Selfie Videos

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  Joseph DeLeon University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  May 24, 2019

  3 comments

  because, after all, I’m the most convenient thing there is. Sullivan’s archive records and preserves the ...
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  The Queer Geek Adonis

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  Matthew french Old Dominion University

  September 26, 2013

  2 comments

  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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  Pee-Wee Herman Marries a Fruit...Salad

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  Charles Daniel Redmond Tufts University

  December 31, 2014

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  that this promise of endless possibility is what kept children my age (and, unsurprisingly, a number of ... light-hearted moment on a children’s television program uncannily queer and open to possibilities far beyond the ...
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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

  12 comments

  Muñoz’s work in order to provisionally sketch out the possibilities of a queer aesthetics, and ethics, ...
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  Project Runaway: On the Road with Austin and Santino

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  Victoria Sturtevant University of Oklahoma

  September 22, 2010

  4 comments

  always banished to the ghetto of the sewing room or make-up studio, but have identities outside of their ...

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