Browsing by Subject "Queer"
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An Amorous Prehistory of Hong Kong Queer Cinema
(2016-06-08)Depiction of homoerotic relationships among women in commercial costumed films was a unique phenomenon in 1970s - 1980s Hong Kong cinema. What are the possible cinematic meanings of lesbian images that we can perceive in ... -
Figuring a Queer Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Dissent in Istanbul
(2020)This dissertation is a theoretical and art/archival practice-based exploration of aesthetic-affective resistance to neoliberal recuperation of urban space that not only constitutes a physical manifestation of capitalist ... -
Queer Muslim Environmental Futurisms: Taqwa (Introspection) and Barzakh (Liminality and Paradox)
(2023-04-20)Through Orientalism, EuroAmerican hegemony constructs nature and sexuality to control ideas and resources around Muslims and nonhumans. EuroAmerican colonizers introduced to Islamic theology the very association of sexuality ... -
Queer Women's Activism in China: Trauma, Sociality, and Confrontational Politics
(2021)In an ethnography of queer women’s (lala) activism in China, I tell the story of a social movement from its effusive beginning to disillusionment and pose the difficult question of what went wrong. I trace the dissolution ... -
Walking the Back of The Crocodile: A Manual of Biblical Interpretation for Queer Members of the Black Church
(2023)June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States, ruled that same sex marriage was constitutional, extending the right and its accompanying benefits to millions of persons to whom legal recognition of their marriages ...