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Category Archives: sexuality studies
Q&A with GerShun Avilez, Author of Black Queer Freedom
in African American Studies, Q&A, sexuality studies
Tagged art, black studies, LGBT, sexuality studies
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Author, GerShun Avilez, of Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire answers questions about his familial influences, discoveries and purpose for writing his book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? The work of Black … Continue reading
Essential Pride Month Reading List
in best of lists, gay/lesbian, sexuality studies
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This Pride Month, we invite our readers to honor the contributions of LGBTQ+ activists with this collection of some of our recent titles featuring a range of experiences within diverse contexts. For more titles, check out the full list of … Continue reading
Queer Timing Awarded the Pop Culture Association’s John Leo and Dana Heller Award
in and sexuality studies, authors, awards, Feminist Media Studies, feminist studies, film, gender, gender studies, sexuality studies, winner
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We are pleased to announce Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema by Susan Potter is this year’s winner of the Pop Culture Association’s John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored or … Continue reading
Q&A with Susan Potter, author of “Queer Timing”
in art, film, gay/lesbian, Q&A, sexuality studies
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Susan Potter is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sydney. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? When I … Continue reading
Angelique Harris on “Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change”
in African American Studies, author commentary, authors, Authors on Issues, black studies, culture, feminist studies, gender studies, journals, sexuality studies
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Dr. Angelique Harris is the founding director of the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program and is an associate professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. … Continue reading
Celebrating Pride Month
in gay/lesbian, gender, gender studies, sexuality studies
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To celebrate Pride Month throughout June, check out these five books that discuss important figures in the LGBTQ+ community and the issues surrounding the fight for gay rights. Lana and Lily Wachowski Cael M. Keegan Cáel M. Keegan views the … Continue reading
Funk the Power, Funk the Erotic
in African American Studies, black studies, gender studies, sexuality studies
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“We have just witnessed a spectacular demonstration of the failures of a national, political imagination. Many of us feel devastated, afraid, and confused. There is no better time than this to accept L.H. Stallings’s Funk the Erotic’s invitation to inhabit … Continue reading
Separating families for enslavement
in African American Studies, american history, migration, sexuality studies, women's history, world history
Tagged African history, history of slavery, slavery, women gender and sexuality
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Excerpted from Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem The nature of slavery inflicted permanent scars as traders moved purchased captives off land, separating married couples, parents and children, siblings, and other … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: Gutsy Reads
in folklore, sexuality studies, women's history
Tagged marriage, menstruation, outsider art
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Teach the controversy! Like any academic press, UIP delves into the taboo, the transgressive, and the fringe. Such books reflect our belief that a lot of topics go unseen, and a lot of voices unheard, by the mainstream. TBT presents … Continue reading
Q&A with Vita Sexualis author Ralph Leck
in gay/lesbian, gender studies, sexuality studies
Tagged cultural studies, European history, science
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Ralph M. Leck teaches in the University Honors Program at Indiana State University. He answered some questions about his book Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science. Q: Was Karl Ulrichs, as some claim, the first person to … Continue reading