... sexual orphaning “transinstitutionalization ” troubled teen industry detention centers indigeneity orphan Queer studies boarding schools reform schools industrial schools childhood sexuality Native Americans African Americans disability Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories...

... to be partially controlled outside the institution because of the ideological, affective, and material educations that children internalized at schools. Queering Childhoods expands queer studies’ view of the child: instead of looking for antecedent figures in LGBTQIA- or sexologically-marked...

... the straight majority despite what is conceptualized only as a relatively insignificant and highly personal individualistic trait: sexuality. Reading through the lens of Black queer studies, this chapter reveals how the film markets itself as progressive with its multicultural casting but falls victim...

...This chapter highlights queered and nonnormative heterosexualities among the Black and White straight men and women. Bringing a queer studies perspective to bear on the narratives of the straight interviewees, it analyzes the nonnormative practices of some straight men by focusing on the emergence...

... utopianism transvaluation film studies critical ethnic studies slavery queer studies mass incarceration Mandingo (film) Manderlay (film) African diaspora In the previous chapter I sought to recover an impossible history of speculative fiction as theoretical grounds for emergent contemporary norms...

... (film) blaxploitation performance art Piper, Adrian van Peebles, Melvin funk transgender studies queer studies In the first years of the 1970s, two figures appeared at the margins of American culture. The first, Brer Soul, was a profane but plaintive storyteller of everyday black life. Like his...

...This chapter examines the interrelationships among queer studies, diaspora studies, and area studies, with particular emphasis on the possibilities for a comparative queer studies project that is routed and rooted in and through each of these fields. It considers the notion of the region as a way...

... Smith Patti speculative fiction Califia Patrick Gibson William queer studies Wojnarowicz David science fiction fandom apocalypse computers internet the deviance disability heteronormativity heterosexuality whiteness black women Butler Octavia E consent gender Gomez Jewelle Nash...

...Chapter 2 taps into historical debates about “norms” in queer studies, while digging deeper into an emerging popular discourse about norms between the years 2010-2013, due in part to the lifestyle trend called “normcore” (as well as shows that skewered “the new normal,” a la 30 Rock...

... & Marilyn God on a Wheel Grosz Elizabeth Philosophy American Literature Queer Studies Performance Studies style I can’t sing a song That I don’t understand — Bob Dylan, “Goodbye Jimmy Reed” Darling, without an orchestra how in the devil could one sing? —Royce Reed My graduate training...

...The epilogue reflects on the author’s personal attachments to queer theory by providing two versions of an answer to the question: “Why is this a queer project?” The first answer considers the challenges and imperatives for doing interdisciplinary queer work. Queer studies has at times been...