Queerness y antigüedad greco-latina en Ralf König

Reescribir, deconstruir y resignificar el pasado de la tradición heteronormativa es una de las estrategias más usuales de la expresión de la diversidad sexual en los textos culturales. Es interesante plantear lo que ocurre con el historietista Ralf König y sus intervenciones sobre la tradición literaria y cultural de la antigüedad grecolatina clásica. Los modelos canónicos de la sexualidad son confrontados y la literatura y la tradición clásica se vuelven paródicas del binarismo y la normalidad sexual: la tematización de las relaciones intermasculinas en la antigua Grecia, los clásicos greco-latinos, la figura de Alejandro Magno y la historia del mártir san Sebastián, son todos ejemplos de tópicos y tradiciones resignificadas por König en términos queer

Posporno, queerness y sexualidad disidente en la obra cinematográfica de Monika Treut

Monika Treut constituye un ejemplo paradigmático del cruce entre la cinematografía queer y el activismo de género en el ámbito de habla alemana. El surgimiento de categorías como disidencia sexual, queerness, pospornografía, entre otras, que generan un debate en el seno de los movimientos feministas de principios de los ochentas, tanto a nivel teórico como a nivel político y activista, son cuestiones que podemos apreciar con claridad en las películas de Treut de los años ochenta y principios de los noventa: Verführung: die grausame Frau (1984, codirigida en colaboración con Elfi Mikesch), Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988) y My father is coming (1991). Este trabajo analiza el caso particular de Die Jungfrauenmaschine deteniéndose, por un lado, en la proyección del debate en torno a la pornografía (lo que fue conocido en los años ochentas en el movimiento feminista norteamericano como las "Sex Wars") y, por otro lado, haciendo hincapié en cómo el binarismo de género y la identidad sexual son confrontadas desde la sexualidad disidente y su representación cinematográfica

Queerness y antigüedad greco-latina en Ralf König

Reescribir, deconstruir y resignificar el pasado de la tradición heteronormativa es una de las estrategias más usuales de la expresión de la diversidad sexual en los textos culturales. Es interesante plantear lo que ocurre con el historietista Ralf König y sus intervenciones sobre la tradición literaria y cultural de la antigüedad grecolatina clásica. Los modelos canónicos de la sexualidad son confrontados y la literatura y la tradición clásica se vuelven paródicas del binarismo y la normalidad sexual: la tematización de las relaciones intermasculinas en la antigua Grecia, los clásicos greco-latinos, la figura de Alejandro Magno y la historia del mártir san Sebastián, son todos ejemplos de tópicos y tradiciones resignificadas por König en términos queer

Posporno, queerness y sexualidad disidente en la obra cinematográfica de Monika Treut

Monika Treut constituye un ejemplo paradigmático del cruce entre la cinematografía queer y el activismo de género en el ámbito de habla alemana. El surgimiento de categorías como disidencia sexual, queerness, pospornografía, entre otras, que generan un debate en el seno de los movimientos feministas de principios de los ochentas, tanto a nivel teórico como a nivel político y activista, son cuestiones que podemos apreciar con claridad en las películas de Treut de los años ochenta y principios de los noventa: Verführung: die grausame Frau (1984, codirigida en colaboración con Elfi Mikesch), Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988) y My father is coming (1991). Este trabajo analiza el caso particular de Die Jungfrauenmaschine deteniéndose, por un lado, en la proyección del debate en torno a la pornografía (lo que fue conocido en los años ochentas en el movimiento feminista norteamericano como las "Sex Wars") y, por otro lado, haciendo hincapié en cómo el binarismo de género y la identidad sexual son confrontadas desde la sexualidad disidente y su representación cinematográfica

Queerness y antigüedad greco-latina en Ralf König

Reescribir, deconstruir y resignificar el pasado de la tradición heteronormativa es una de las estrategias más usuales de la expresión de la diversidad sexual en los textos culturales. Es interesante plantear lo que ocurre con el historietista Ralf König y sus intervenciones sobre la tradición literaria y cultural de la antigüedad grecolatina clásica. Los modelos canónicos de la sexualidad son confrontados y la literatura y la tradición clásica se vuelven paródicas del binarismo y la normalidad sexual: la tematización de las relaciones intermasculinas en la antigua Grecia, los clásicos greco-latinos, la figura de Alejandro Magno y la historia del mártir san Sebastián, son todos ejemplos de tópicos y tradiciones resignificadas por König en términos queer

Posporno, queerness y sexualidad disidente en la obra cinematográfica de Monika Treut

Monika Treut constituye un ejemplo paradigmático del cruce entre la cinematografía queer y el activismo de género en el ámbito de habla alemana. El surgimiento de categorías como disidencia sexual, queerness, pospornografía, entre otras, que generan un debate en el seno de los movimientos feministas de principios de los ochentas, tanto a nivel teórico como a nivel político y activista, son cuestiones que podemos apreciar con claridad en las películas de Treut de los años ochenta y principios de los noventa: Verführung: die grausame Frau (1984, codirigida en colaboración con Elfi Mikesch), Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988) y My father is coming (1991). Este trabajo analiza el caso particular de Die Jungfrauenmaschine deteniéndose, por un lado, en la proyección del debate en torno a la pornografía (lo que fue conocido en los años ochentas en el movimiento feminista norteamericano como las "Sex Wars") y, por otro lado, haciendo hincapié en cómo el binarismo de género y la identidad sexual son confrontadas desde la sexualidad disidente y su representación cinematográfica

Identifiable, queer and risky : the role of the body in policing experiences for LGBT young people

This paper explores how visibly non-heteronormative bodies mediate policing experiences of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) young people, an area that has been mostly ignored in research about policing young people. Informed by interviews with 35 LGBT young people in Brisbane, Queensland, this paper addresses this gap by exploring how the non-heteronormative body mediates policing experiences of LGBT young people. Drawing on Foucault (1984), Butler (1990a), and other queer theory, the paper argues young non-heteronormative bodies visibly perform ‘queerness’, are read by police, and shape police-LGBT youth interactions. While this is complicated by looking at-risk (in terms of risk factors like homelessness, substance abuse), and looking risky (in terms of risk-taking or criminalised activities), the paper concludes noting how youthful LGBT bodies are regulated by police as non-heteronormative and deviant.

'Homophobia' in the university classroom : law and justice students' conceptualizations of queer identity

Heteronormative discourses provide the most common lens through which sexuality is understood within university curricula. This means that sexuality is discussed in terms of categories of identity, with heterosexuality accorded primacy and all ‘others’ indeed ‘othered.’ This paper reports on research carried out by the authors in a core first year university justice class, in which students of law and/or justice were required to engage with, discuss, and reflect on discourses on sexuality. It uses a poststructural framework to identify how students understand non-heterosexualities and how they personally relate to queer identities, in the sense that it asks questions about gender and sexual identity, and the discourses surrounding them. It was found that strongly negative attitudes to non-heterosexualities are quite resistant to challenge, and that some students express being confronted with queerness as a deep-seated fear of being drawn into otherness against their will. The result was that, while many students were able to unpack their attitudes towards queerness and engage in critical reflection and re-evaluation of their attitudes, students with strongly negative views towards non-heterosexualities conversely refused to engage at all, typically perceiving even the engagement itself as a threat to their core heterosexual identity. However, the authors caution against relying on the idea that students are simply “homophobic” to explain this reluctance, as this term does not necessarily account for the complexity of the discourses that inform students’ reactions in this context. This “homophobia” may simply be related to a way of performing gender and sexual identity as opposed to overt discrimination and fear.

Queer/error : gay media systems and processes of abjection

Gay community media functions as a system with three nodes, in which the flows of information and capital theoretically benefit all parties: the gay community gains a sense of cohesion and citizenship through media; the gay media outlets profit from advertisers’ capital; and advertisers recoup their investments in lucrative ‘pink dollar’ revenue. But if a necessary corollary of all communication systems is error or noise, where—and what—are the errors in this system? In this paper we argue that the ‘error’ in the gay media system is Queerness, and that the gay media system ejects (in a process of Kristevan abjection) these Queer identities in order to function successfully. We examine the ways in which Queer identities are excluded from representation in such media through a discourse and content analysis of The Sydney Star Observer (Australia’s largest gay and lesbian paper). First, we analyse the way Queer bodies are excluded from the discourses that construct and reinforce both the ideal gay male body and the notions of homosexual essence required for that body to be meaningful. We then argue that abject Queerness returns in the SSO’s discourses of public health through the conspicuous absence of the AIDS-inflicted body (which we read as the epitome of the abject Queer), since this absence paradoxically conjures up a trace of that which the system tries to expel. We conclude by arguing that because the ‘Queer error’ is integral to the SSO, gay community media should practise a politics of Queer inclusion rather than exclusion.

Queers doing theory : Australian queer student activist print media’s representations of capitalism

Queer university student print media often represents capitalism in a framework which could be classified as Marxism. However, at the same time, queer student media extensively publishes ideas which could be classified as academic queer theory. This chapter features analysis of these representations from the 2003, 2004 and 2006 editions of national queer student publication, Querelle, and from a sample of queer student media from four Australian universities. The perspectives of Marxism and academic queer theory are often argued to be contradictory (See for example, Hennessy 1994; Morton 1996b; Kirsch 2007), and thus the students’ application of these theories in tandem could be considered problematic. McKee asks ‘Who gets to be an intellectual?’ (2004) and suggests that the intellectualising undertaken by mainstream and alternative cultural creators is just as valid as that undertaken by university academics. He also raises concerns that the concept of theory is seen to be kept separate from everyday culture (McKee 2002). This chapter argues that in the construction and representation of their politics in this manner the queer student activists are creating their own version of queer theory. This analysis of queer student media contributes to research on queer communities and queer theory, demonstrating how one specific cultural subset theorises queerness and queer politics, thereby contributing to the genealogy of queer.

‘It’s not like we’re going to jump them’: how transgressing heteronormativity shapes police interactions with LGBT young people

This paper explores how visibly transgressing heteronormativity shapes police interactions with LGBT young people. While research evidences how sexually and gender diverse bodies can be abused in schools, policing is overlooked. Interviews with 35 LGBT young people demonstrate how bodies transgressing heteronormativity (that is, non-heteronormative bodies) mediate their policing experiences in Queensland, Australia. Drawing on Foucault, Butler, and others, the paper suggests police interactions and use of discretion with LGBT young people was informed by non-heteronormative bodies discursively performing queerness in ways read by police. The paper concludes noting tensions produced for youthful LGBT bodies in public spaces.

‘Just stupid drama queens’ : how police constrain, regulate, and punish the public visibilities of sexual/gender diversity as out of place

Using interview data on LGBT young peoples’ policing experiences, I argue policing practices work to constrain public visibilities of sexual and gender diversity in public spaces. Police actions recounted by LGBT young people suggest the workings of a certain kind of visuality (Mason, 2002) and evidenced more subtle actions that sought to constrain, regulate, and punish public visibilities of sexual and gender diversity. Aligning with the work of sexualities academics and theorists, this paper suggests that, like violence is itself a bodily spectacle from which onlookers come to know things, policing works to subtly constrain public visibilities of “queerness”. Policing interactions with LGBT young people serves the purpose of visibly yet unverifiably (Mason, 2002) regulating displays of sexual and gender diversity in public spaces. The paper concludes noting how police actions are nonetheless visible and therefore make knowable to the public the importance of keeping same sex intimacy invisible in public spaces.

Policing visible sexual/gender diversity as a program of governance

Using interview data on LGBT young people’s policing experiences, I argue policing and security works as a program of government (Dean 1999; Foucault 1991; Rose 1999) that constrains the visibilities of diverse sexuality and gender in public spaces. While young people narrated police actions as discriminatory, the interactions were complex and multi‐faceted with police and security working to subtly constrain the public visibilities of ‘queerness’. Same sex affection, for instance, was visibly yet unverifiably (Mason 2002) regulated by police as a method of governing the boundaries of proper gender and sexuality in public. The paper concludes by noting how the visibility of police interactions with LGBT young people demonstrates to the public that public spaces are, and should remain, heterosexual spaces.

Yhden äänen muotokuvia : Queer-luentoja Marguerite Yourcenarin teoksista

The present dissertation belongs to the tradition of queer theoretical and feminist literary scholarship. The study deals with the literary works of Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), who was the first woman ever to be elected to the French Academy. The study seeks to lead an acclaimed classical French author into a dialogue with the characteristically Anglo-American queer theory and American tradition of queering Lacanian psychoanalysis. Queering the psychoanalytic notions of homosexuality and the categories of perversion and pervert will be elaborated in the present study. The main corpus of the scrutiny consists of five pieces of fiction written in French by Yourcenar. The first person narration and especially récit genre maintain a narrative strategy that the study explores with reference to the representations of non-normative genders and sexualities. Analyzing various radically queer aspects of Yourcenar's texts, the study focuses on the topical questions of masculinity in men, women, and texts. The study also discusses the representations of sexual desire between men, and the various constructions of male homosexuality in Yourcenar's fiction. The present study addresses Yourcenar's fiction from the points of view of female masculinity and textual female masculinity. The investigation finds its study questions and methodology in the area of queer studies, especially queer theoretical literary scholarship and the queer history and historiography of sexuality. That is why the study approaches Yourcenar's fiction in the context of historical and literary representations of male homosexual love and desire. The articulation of the closet, or textual and discursive strategies of sexual secrecy especially concerning male homosexuality, is simultaneously constructed and deconstructed in Yourcenar's fiction, as the analysis indicates. The study analyzes the Yourcenarian queer textual strategies with reference to concepts such as the epistemology and rhetoric of the closet, and the structure of the open secret as a part of the rhetoric of queer or non-straight sexuality. The present investigation puts the queer, non-normative representations of gender and sexuality in the centre of the Yourcenarian oeuvre and studies, ascertaining the strong bond between Yourcenar's work and the history, tradition, and the modern strategies of representing male homosexuality and queerness.

Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism

In challenging normative social relations, queer cultural studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. I do so by investigating how global economic relations provide an allegorical and material context for the regulation, representation and re-imagining of working-class queer childhood through anti- capitalist queer readings of three films: Kes, Billy Elliot, and Boys Village. I deploy this reading practice to investigate how these films represent heteronormative capitalism’s systematic extermination of the life possibilities of working class children, how children resist forces of normalisation by creating queer times and spaces, and how nostalgia engenders a spatio-temporal understanding of queerness through a radical utopianism. My analysis foregrounds visual cultural productions as sites for understanding how contemporary social worlds exclude queer working class children, who struggle to insert themselves into and thereby shift the grounds of normative social relations.