Queer McGill

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises tha...

Queer Families

In December 2005, an appeals court in New York State ruled “that the state constitution does not require New York to treat gay couples the same as heterosexual couples in marriage licensing” (Keen 11). The ongoing gay marriage debate has set the stage for many lesbians, gays, and queers to ask what marriage equality really means for the gay movement. According to Michael Warner in the book The ...

THE McGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE

The problem of pain, since the beginning of this century, has been dominated by the concept that pain is purely a sensory experience. Yet it has a unique, distinctively unpleasant, affective quality that differentiates it from sensory experiences such as sight, hearing or touch. . . . The motivational-affective dimension of pain is brought clearly into focus by clinical studies on frontal lobot...

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Presenting Queer Schur Superalgebras

Associated to the two types of finite dimensional simple superalgebras, there are the general linear Lie superalgebra and the queer Lie superalgebra. The universal enveloping algebras of these Lie superalgebras act on the tensor spaces of the natural representations and, thus, define certain finite dimensional quotients, the Schur superalgebras and the queer Schur superalgebra. In this paper, w...