Hip Check: An Introduction in Four Parts -- If Men Don't Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check? -- Showing and Telling: Debi Thomas's Unitard and the Racing of the Obscene -- Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow -- TV Evidence for the Transgen…
"Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"--
"Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"--
"On the Inconvenience of Other People is Lauren Berlant's follow up to Cruel Optimism (2011). In that book, Berlant focused on the reasons why, under the contemporary condition of constant crisis, people stay attached to objects that wear them out mentally, politically, material…
Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities …
Preface: Our Patron Saint -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- 1988 -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- 2002 -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- 2004 -- The Quene : A mervilos and magiquall tale of epistemological mischief, wherein there are revealed no secretes -- Chapter Seven -- 20…
In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among self, place, race, and storytelling contend with both the afterlives of history and …
Chickens saved my life -- The time it takes (by way of an introduction) -- Secret -- A possum fate (averted) -- Events unfold in the snow -- Chicken feet -- Why chickens or homage to Gloria -- Boomerang -- A way of making another egg -- Shivers and shakes -- The chicken or the e…
Chickens saved my life -- The time it takes (by way of an introduction) -- Secret -- A possum fate (averted) -- Events unfold in the snow -- Chicken feet -- Why chickens or homage to Gloria -- Boomerang -- A way of making another egg -- Shivers and shakes -- The chicken or the e…
Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nud…
SEX : sex in the event of happiness -- DEMOCRACY : the commons : infrastructures for troubling times -- LIFE : on being in life without wanting the world : no world poetics, or, elliptical life -- Coda. My dark places.