{"title":"The Magic of the Margins: Rethinking Healing from the Perspective of Queer Exile","authors":"A. Awadalla","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-3.0194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"19 1","pages":"194 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89502963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promise of Anger and Dissident Kinship","authors":"S. Chatterjee","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0051","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article interrogates and explores the value, potential, politics, and limits of anger in queer and trans kinship. Taking into account dominant forms of anger as exclusionary and marginalizing and subversive forms of anger as transformative and coalitional, this article centers anti-caste queer political moments and Dalit queer assertions and modes of political organizing to understand how anger is mobilized in the Indian context, the significance it accrues, and the meanings it assumes. This article seeks to understand how certain forms of anger become legitimized in the name of queerness, homogeneity, and strategic necessity while anger, and political wisdom revealed through it, embodied by multiply marginalized, oppressed-caste trans and queer people come to be vilified, stigmatized, pathologized, and marked as an expression of betrayal. The notion of illegitimacy associated with oppressed-caste trans and queer people's anger reveals casteism within queer spaces and exposes the threat such subversive anger and wisdom poses to casteist pragramatism and universality sought by dominant-caste queer people. This article shows the work that both dominant and subjugated forms of anger do and what it means for queer and trans kinship.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"23 1","pages":"51 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77853333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Global in Spirit\": Deep Reading Transgenre","authors":"Nishant Shahani","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0029","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this article, I theorize the notion of \"transgenre\" in which \"trans\" indexes multiple possibilities: i.e., an analysis of transgender cultural production through the more explicitly mediated logics of transnational racial capitalism. To ground these investments, I read the Netflix show Sense8 as a cultural text that mines these multiple meanings of \"trans.\" My analysis suggests that the show's investment in corporeal transgression shimmers over geographical surfaces, offering an understanding of trans aesthetics that elides over geopolitical and racial difference. Thus, the article proposes a deep reading of Sense8 (and transgenres) to understand \"trans*\" beyond the visual aesthetics of polyphony and boundary transgression. It considers the material conditions that subtend \"trans*\" in order to render it a more capacious category—one that does not simply gloss over difference, but functions as a way to track the overlaps among racial, transnational, and queer formations.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"281 1","pages":"29 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74751784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belief in Hopeless Times: The Once and Future Lesbian in Putin's Russia and Beyond","authors":"Laurie Essig","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0093","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, written 2 1/2 years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I consider how lesbians and other queer women created lives in what was an increasingly totalitarian regime. Borrowing from Black queer feminist Afro-futurism, I try to open up space for survival in un-survivable conditions without in anyway suggesting that anti-Blackness and the anti-queer regime of Vladimir Putin are the same. In order to figure out how the tools of Afro-futurism can be applied to the homo-pessimism of Russia, I begin with the death of the lesbian as a utopian figure in the US and trace her rebirth in Putin's Russia. Then I turn to an LGBTQ magazine as well as five interviews with lesbian and queer women in Russia. By insisting on the utopian possibility of creating lesbian existence when such existence is denied, both the journal and the women managed to create some breathing room in a very anti-queer, anti-feminist and patriarchal state and society.","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"38 1","pages":"111 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80345612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isherwood in Transit","authors":"B. Fehler","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83742066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tragedy of Heterosexuality","authors":"Abigail N. Burns","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88991187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories","authors":"Emerson Armstrong","doi":"10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-2.0164","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43840,"journal":{"name":"QED-A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking","volume":"143 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80306113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}