Recent queercatsjournal items

Book Review of John Rechy's After the Blue Hour

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Omar Gonzalez provides a brief book review of gay Chicano novelist John Rechy’s latest book After the Blue Hour. Gonzalez’s review, “The Nepantla of John Rechy,” delivers an overview of the breadth of work by Rechy.Through a Nepantla framework, Gonzalez suggests that Rechy’s latest piece of literature not only problematizes the themes of erotic desire and domination but also establishes itself as yet another important contribution for gay Chi- canx literature.

Dismembered Bodies of Color: U.S. Imperialisms in the Pulse

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Yazan Za3za3 critically contrasts the discursive responses to the 2016 Orlando Pulse shooting with their structural counterparts. They argue that under the mainstream veil of mourning and victimization of Black, Puerto Rican, and (queer) Muslim people, the United States was in fact able to minimize and invisibilize its ongoing domestic, imperialist, and Zionist attack of these very communities.

Front Matter

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Front Matter

Dreams/Myths/Histories: Envisioning More Livable World

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In “Dreams/Myths/Histories: Envisioning More Livable World” we arrive at the duo-keynote conver- sation between the 2017 keynote speakers: C. Riley Snorton and CeCe McDonald. In their keynote conversation, Snorthon and McDonald discuss what it means to be black, trans, and unapologetic in a white violent society. They tackle a variety of topics including Afro-futurism, radical imaginaries, prison abolition, and anti-blackness both in and out the LGBTQ community.

The “Gayfication” of Tel Aviv: Investigating Israel’s Pro-gay Brand

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Satchie Snellings provides an in-depth analysis of Tel Aviv’s polit- ical move towards LGBT inclusion and its active incorporation of not only the gay citizen but the accompanying profitable gay-tourism.

Transforming Emotional Regime: Pai Hsien- yung’s Crystal Boys

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

“Transforming Emotional Regime: Pai Hsien- yung’s Crystal Boys” turns towards literature as a means of exploring emotional hierarchies that both inform and organize homophobia and anti-queer violence within the structure of the family. Linshan Jiang takes us through Crystal Boys––a canonical piece of Taiwanese queer lit- erature––a love story between two male lovers up against the social order of fielial piety in Taiwan during the 1960s.

Table of Content

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Table of Content

Torsos, Selfies, and Blanks: Grindr as a Research Tool and a Field Site

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Torsos, Selfies, and Blanks: Grindr as a Research Tool and a Field Site

Editors' Notes

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

QCats Editors' Notes

QCATS Editor's Letter

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

QCATS Editor's Letter, Volume 2

Dys-appearing/Re-Appearing: Trans Men Actors Resisting Cisnormative Theatrical Traditions with Phenomenal Stage Presence

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In “Dys-appearing/Re-Appearing: Trans Men Actors Resist- ing Cisnormative Theatrical Traditions with Phenomenal Stage Presence” Joshua Bastian Cole lays the groundwork for a theory of acting for trans men that incorporates an understanding of various symptoms of dysphoria, rather than labeling them undesirable “absences” that must be eliminated in the pursuit of a normatively-conceived stage “presence.” Using a de-pathologizing medical model of trans subjectiv- ity in combination with various phenomenological theories of trans embodiment, Cole explores trans men’s abilities to actively create a body in space and time. He argues that these creative survival techniques can be used as a the basis for a method for stage acting. He concludes with a postscript that provides an application for his ideas, an exercise which bridges the gap between social performativity and stage performance.

Performing Research in the Closeted City: One Lesbian Researcher’s Autoethnographic Journey toward LGBTQ-Inclusive Sex Education in Atlanta, Georgia

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Amy E. Alterman’s “Performing Research in the Closeted City: One Lesbian Researcher’s Autoethnographic Journey toward LGBTQ-Inclusive Sex Education in Atlanta, Georgia” traces her experiences as an ethnographer in the field to examine how performances of silence inform sex education in Atlanta, GA. Using Eve Kosofsky Sedjwick’s theorization of the closet, Alterman explores the many silences simultaneously operating around sex education and LGBTQ-inclusive topics in sex education to consider abstinence-centered advocates as closeted professionals who are reluctant to engage in public dialogue about sex education.

Front Matter

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Under the aegis of the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, Queer Cats Journal of LGBT Studies is an open-access e-publication of the QGrads @ UCLA graduate-student organization. We publish peer- and editorial-reviewed interdisciplinary LGBTQ research along with the proceedings of our annual QGrad (queer grad- uate student) conference. Queer Cats provokes discourse that inspires, expands and challenges our understanding of LGBTQ issues, from the local to the global. Queer Cats provides a critical space for queer knowl- edge production, as it unites a multiplicity of scholarly voices in a critical dialogue about the past, present and future of LGBTQ studies.

The name “Queer Cats” commemorates one of the earliest LGBTQ uprisings in the United States (pre-Stonewall) that began on NewYear’s night, 1967, when the patrons of the Black Cat Tavern in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles protested police brutality in the name of queer freedom.

Foucault: On the Monstrosity of the Hermaphroditic Body

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Stefanos Milkidis’ “Foucault: On the monstrosity of the hermaphroditic body” guides us through Foucault’s discourse on the hermaphrodite body. Focusing on two Foucauldian case studies, Milkidis traces the ways in which the hermaphrodite body is pathologized, underscoring the relationship between knowledge production and power relations. Milkidis’ emphasis on Foucault’s research proves fruitful to better understanding how the “deviant body” was historically demonized and pathologized as an abnormal “other” within medical spaces/discourse.

Acknowledged but Ignored: A Critical Race Theory Approach to the Prison Rape Elimination Act

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Following the work of Michelle Alexander, Kevin Medina and Brian Nguyen’s “Acknowledged but Ignored: A Critical Race Theory Approach to the Prison Rape Elimination Act,” address the overrepresentation of incarcerated men of color, speci cally African American men. Medina and Nguyen highlight the ways in which racism and homophobia reproduce rape culture in prisons and demonstrate the limitations of the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

Introduction

Thu, 9 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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"La Daika: Auto-teoría of a Dyke(-ish) Tijuana Border Lesbian Re-Claiming the Bad Woman and Re-Making the Elektra Complex in Chicana Lesbian Literature."