Between 1924 and 1932 room was made in the German gay and lesbian publication house Radszuweit Verlag for gender expansive topics not having to do with sexuality. Specifically, these new sections and periodicals addressed the experiences of transvestites, the first collective id…
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The main objective was to make recommendations that included creating a toolkit that further enhances Queer youth’s inherent power to navigate community organization and government spaces, thereby allowing them to reclaim their spaces by formalizing a third-place through space p…
Transgender populations face substantial barriers to healthcare access, exacerbated by a lack of inclusive research. The health needs of those who are gender nonbinary or genderqueer, identifying outside the binary of man and woman, are especially poorly understood. Using a prim…
What is the role of epic in modernity? Does it still have any value? What shape and structure does it take? This dissertation claims that the epic does indeed continue to inform our experience of the world in modernity, albeit often in unusual ways. Focusing on the period betwee…
In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative wh…
My dissertation, entitled Imagining Independence Park, uses literary texts, photographs, and art installations to explore the strategies and practices that gay Israelis adopt in order to assimilate into mainstream society and to distinguish themselves from it. I analyze diverse …
In my dissertation, through looking at contemporary urban queer formations and politics, I theorize about the complex ways in which power and abjection operates in the context of Turkey's post-Empire, Westernizing nation-state formation. I argue that queer formations, subjects a…
The internet has generally been recognized as a particularly advantageous medium for LGBTQs, that is, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans* people and/or queers. However, as I explain in this doctoral dissertation, LGBTQ Internet studies remain dominated by US scholars working on…
The aim of this study is to examine key texts in the discourse on Arab male homosexuality--works that have helped shape contemporary Arab thoughts and attitudes towards male "homosexuality." The exploration of an Arab "homosexual identity" will not only be examined through the a…
This dissertation explores the performative manifestations of two familiar tropes, queer colonials and nativized boys, on the colonial and global-scapes of Singapore, Bali and the Asian diaspora. I focus on selected, representative theater and performance that are produced by or…
Reading poetry in Yiddish, Hebrew and English from across the twentieth century, this dissertation examines how literary lineage is constructed and challenged by Jewish women in Eastern Europe, America and Mandatory Palestine. Between Jewish women's limited access to the past an…
This practice-led thesis situates the experimental novella <i>Gaudy Bauble</i> within the context of interdisciplinary approaches to experimentation which cross the arts, humanities, literature and sciences. The novella and thesis develop a queer avant-garde poetics and writing …
This thesis examines pain in performance art and, as the subtitle suggests, it addresses notions of bearing witness by examining art practices that cross the boundaries of performance art, social practice, illness, activism, and other forms of confrontation with the male body. B…
This interdisciplinary practice-based thesis interrogates the term ‘operatic’ with particular reference to movement. It thereby aims to extract operatic movement from the practice of opera singers and investigate ways to transfer ‘operaticness’ into the bodies of non-singing per…
Using a qualitative research design, this study attempted to find out how lesbian and bisexual women of color came to know their sexual orientation identity and how they came to share this identity with others. Fifteen women of color currently enrolled in one of two four-year un…
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the human geography of queer identity constructions and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations in the Lebanese capital Beirut. While I situate the formations of socially ma…
Between 1998 and 1999, San Francisco activists, politicians, and service providers proposed and then opened an emergency, temporary winter shelter for homeless LGBTQQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning) youth called "Castro Shelter" in the heart of the …
This dissertation examines the ways in which the notion of the postcolonial correlates to Judith Halberstam's idea of queer space and time where, in "[detaching] queerness from sexuality" (1), chronologies represent a "diminishing future [which] creates a new emphasis on the her…
This study explores the development of contemporary Moroccan queer literature written in French since 1995 and how it attests to a literary trend called transnarrationalité. It bases its approach in part on existing studies of narration, gender, sexuality, and queer theory in an…