Epideictic Rhetorics, Queer Spatiality, and Monstrous Sexuality in ‘The Beetle’

Monstrous Fairytales: Towards an Écriture Queer

Queer/fear: disability, sexuality, and the other.

This paper examines the relationship between disability and "queerness." I argue that the hostility frequently expressed against both disabled and queer individuals is a function of fear of the undecidability of the body. I draw on feminist, queer, and disability theory to help us understand this phenomenon and suggest that these different kinds of theories have a complementary relationship. Th...

Queer Genes: Realism, Sexuality and Science

What are 'gay genes' and are they real? This article looks at key research into these hypothesized gay genes, made possible, in part, by the Human Genome Project. I argue that the complexity of both genetics and human sexuality demands a truly critical approach: one that takes into account feminist epistemologies of science and queer approaches to the body, while putting into conversation resou...

Queer Sexuality: A Cultural Narrative of India’s Historical Archive

This article is a brief historical overview of the Queer archive in India. The precolonial and colonial archive provides several possibilities for ‘authenticating’ the queer identity and claiming some of the history that modern nationalist homophobia seeks to wipe out. Identities are complex to begin with and become more complicated when relating them to the nation and sexuality. Contemporary I...

Sexuality and the Nation: Urban Popular Music and Queer Identities in Krámpack