Psychoanalysis and Feminism: The Bathetic Sorrow of One Woman’s Attempt at...
by Rebecca Katherine Hirsch It’s true! I am that woman! A woman with a dream… a dream that has been realized so many times before… of combining my two favorite philosophical frameworks: feminism and...
View ArticleSaint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the...
by Chase Dimock This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of British mathematician Alan Turing’s birth. In celebration of his enormous contributions to the fields of mathematics, computational science,...
View ArticleMagic and the Link Compliment of the Borromean Rings in America
by Albert Herter A salvo The Lacanian want-to-be-analyst in America is not unlike John the Baptist who when asked to identify himself said ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness…’ There is a...
View ArticleWhat’s Queer About Psychoanalysis?
by Chase Dimock Whenever I “out” myself as a student of Freud, I am inevitably greeted with comments like “Isn’t that the guy who said we all secretly want to have sex with our moms?” or “You know...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me?: Reclaiming Mae West as Author...
by Chase Dimock We know Mae West as an actress, a sex symbol, a cultural icon, a comedienne, a master of the one liner and the double entendre. What we don’t think of Mae West as is an author. It...
View ArticleSeeing History From the Margins
The first in our on-going series of articles on “The Screen” . . by Bonnie Morris … “What’s wrong with you, Mr. Stillwell? Don’t you want to remember? No; you don’t. That’s why you’ve blacked it out....
View ArticleThoughts on the Assassination of Judy Garland (Series of Paintings 2008-2012)
The second in our on-going series of articles on “The Screen” by Carl Gopalkrishnan … Between 2008-2012, I created paintings with an ‘old school’ queer cultural affinity with vintage Broadway and...
View ArticleConstitutionality of Recent SCOTUS Decisions — DOMA and Voting Rights
by Matthew Nelson … (This article originally appeared on As It Ought To Be) The Supreme Court has been getting a lot of attention lately. With the deluge of end-of-term decisions over, it seems...
View ArticleOne from the Other
(A still from David Wojnarowicz’s film, A Fire in My Belly) by Kevin McLellan … Preface Before the acronyms HIV and AIDS were established, there were these acronyms: the 4H disease (Haitians,...
View ArticleGrowing up on the Island of Misfit Toys or: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as...
The sixth in our on-going series of articles on “The Screen” by Chase Dimock … The Misfit Narrative and Queer Youth The narrative of the misfit character struggling to find his place in the world is a...
View ArticleThe Logic of Sex: Heteronormativity, Gender, and the Law of the Excluded Middle
The first in our on-going series of articles on “The End of Heterosexuality?” by Joe Weinberg … It has long been thought that there are two and only two genders: male and female. While some (such as...
View ArticleBend It Like Bex, Flex It Like Barts: Contemporary Metrosexuality and Its...
The second in our on-going series on “The End of Heterosexuality?” … by Michael Angelo Tata . for 12 Pack 12 Pack Takes Over (photo via vh1.com) Introduction: Narcissus Blinked (#sorrynotsorry)...
View ArticleContemporary Metrosexuality IV. Le Mort Chic: Epithalamion, Epitaph
The Final Article in our series: “The End of Heterosexuality?” Dixon Miller, New Orleans, 1996 . by Michael Angelo Tata . If the edifying Versace Bildungsroman...
View ArticleSaint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the...
by Chase Dimock (This essay was originally published in 2012 on The Qouch in honor of Turing’s 100th birthday. With the resurgence of interest in Turing’s life following the Oscar buzz surrounding The...
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