Queer Relationalities, Impossible: The Politics of Homonationalism and Failure in LOGO’s Fire Island
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2103873
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay interrogates the representation of “hot mess” gay male castmates and their interpersonal relationships in LOGO’s Fire Island’s season 1. In particular, this essay identifies moments of media constructed queer failure through which… read more here.
Keywords: logo fire; fire island; failure; queer relationalities ... See more keywords
Akin to Kin: Queer Relationalities in Contemporary Family Memoir
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2103877
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay analyzes how traditional notions of family are “queered” in contemporary memoir. I explore how heterosexual coupling becomes unnatural, undermining its equation with reproduction—and even the predictable forward march of family time becomes… read more here.
Keywords: family; akin kin; contemporary family; kin queer ... See more keywords
Family Pictures: The Queer Relationalities of Multigenerational Queer Family
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DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2121194
Abstract: ABSTRACT Combining queer theorizing, autoethnography, and relational dialectics theory (RDT), this essay examines how my lesbian mothers and donor struggle to define family, queer family, and their emerging familial identities as grandparents to my own… read more here.
Keywords: family; family pictures; queer family; queer ... See more keywords