InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer
Amerykański serial telewizyjny The L Word (USA, emitowany od 2004) opowiada historię grupy lesbijek i biseksualnych kobiet mieszkających w Los Angeles. Artykuł analizuje pierwsze dwa sezony serialu z perspektywy teorii feministycznej i teorii queer. Chociaż serial dekonstruuje normatywne kategorie płci kulturowej i seksualności, można również twierdzić, że podtrzymuje on ideały heteronormatywnego...
On a rectangular table, four heads recollect their personal experiences of existence. In the absence of physical body no gender or sex differations exist. However, in depicting images of their existence the four heads recall relationships and emotions characterized by all the stereotypes of engendered relations. Submisal, obedience, resistance, are evident. The limits and power play of family and...
On a sweltering day in early July 2006 two events took place that would seemingly have little relationship to one another. England lost the World-Cup game against Portugal that would seal their fate for that season and EuroPride was celebrated throughout London's West End. On this particular day these two events did come together, violently. A third happening also took place that night, an event that...
The article analyzes selected gay autobiographies and AIDS memoirs in order to discuss the change in the perception of the self, especially when faced with the hostile environment, such as the conservative family, school, workplace or governmental institutions. I demonstrate that many novelists rejected the victimized notion of the self and started to deploy self-preservation strategies in order to...
Reflecting on lessons learned from the endemic and tacit homophobia throughout his childhood in the American south, Diepiriye's personal narrative begins with realizing his first ally in a most unlikely corner. His best friend became the first in their class to grow breasts and the world seemed to collapse in on her much the same way the world abandoned him because of his effeminacy. Told in first...
Niniejszy esej jest spojrzeniem na ruch LGBT/Queer w Stanach Zjednoczonych w okresie późnych lat 80. I wczesnych lat 90. W tym czasie, w szczytowym okresie aktywizmu skupionego wokół problemu AIDS, rozpoczęło się szereg procesów, które w dalszym ciągu wywierają wpływ na ruchy LGBT i Queer w USA. Analizując sposób prezentowania działań organizacji ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) w opiniotwórczym...
The essay looks at the LGBT/Queer movement in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time, when AIDS activism was at its peak, began a number of processes, which continue to have an effect on the LGBT and Queer movements in the USA. Through an analysis of the New York Times' coverage of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), one can observe the process through which...
This paper surveys the current state of queer studies and argues that epistemological historicism be brought back to bear on queer theoretical analyses, particularly in order to address the challenges of accounting for the globalization and transnationalism of sexuality. The paper proposes that this can be done by, first, "giving up” certain intellectual preoccupations, including (1) the interpretation...
Niniejszy artykuł zajmuje się kwestią uniwersalizmu i partykularyzmu oraz ich znaczeniem dla polityki mniejszości. Celem autora jest pokazanie, że jeśli napięcie pomiędzy uniwersalizmem a partykularyzmem nie jest sproblematyzowane w polityce emancypacyjnej, to taka polityka staję się jedynie deklaratywna, a jej potencjał wolnościowy znika. Na początku autor przedstawia krytykę pragmatyzmu Richarda...
This essay critically scrutinizes the concept of diversity management that is more and more applied by internationally operating companies, encompassing also sexual diversity among its criteria. It therefore analyses several advertisements that implicitly or explicitly address sexual diversity at the workplace and in the sphere of consumption. In particular, the author highlights the status of queer...
Joan Burbick reads Jay Harjo from a queering as well as post-colonial perspective, analyzing the way in which normative discourses of social cohesion are questioned and re-formulated from the vantage point of Native American categories such as the berdache. Harjo's vision promotes radical contingency and a seemingly spiritual notion of transference.
Niniejszy referat stanowi próbę krytycznego przyjrzenia się z perspektywy polityki queer oraz filozofii postmodernistycznej wybranym strategiom językowym oraz narzędziom polityczno-społecznym, używanym przez organizacje gejowsko-lesbijskie w Polsce w celu emancypacji kulturowej oraz legitymizacji prawno-społecznej tożsamości „geja” oraz „lesbijki”. Autor pokazuje, w jaki sposób poprzez praktyki tożsamościowe...
This article seeks to analyze Patrick McCabe's 1998 novel Breakfast on Pluto with regard to its representation of national and gender boundaries, arguing that the text, while not exactly fully qualifying as queer, employs similar deconstructive strategies with regard to identities constructed by discourses of nationality and gender alike, and is indeed especially successful in this project when these...
Based on a presentation delivered at the Parameters of Desire conference in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, June 8-11, 2003, "If Queer Theory Were My Lover” attempts to examine the role of queer theory in the academy using a multi-genre-or trans-genre-format, including personal essay, academic essay, questions, humor, performance, and allegorical fiction. Taking an anti-institutional approach, this work...
Transseksualizm, podnosząc kwestię subiektywnie odczuwanej nieadekwatności płci, może przedstawiać się jako wyzwanie dla teorii feministycznej oraz przedmiot uwagi dla ruchu queer. Celem artykułu jest zatem analiza statusu dyskursu transseksualistycznego w ramach feminizmu, przede wszystkim w oparciu o refleksję Judith Butler, oraz w ramach ruchu i teorii queer. Pytanie, trafnie ujęte przez Henriettę...