Alon LischinskyDec 11, 2023

What I want to know is, what prude decided to call it ‘Lavender Languages & Linguistics 30’ and not LavLang XXX? 🤔

I for one will certainly be bringing some XXX research next August in Brighton (and I expect @mixosaurus will be involved too)

Who else is joining?

https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/lav30/call-for-papers/

#callForPapers #queerLinguistics #genderStudies #transStudies #linguistics #pornStudies

Call for papers | Lavender Language and Linguistics, LavLang30

Lavender 30 is taking place at the University of Brighton on 21-23 August 2024. 30 years after its first conference, this year we will celebrate its glo...

Farrah FreibertJul 24, 2023

Happy to share my new article on the stardom of Judy Coleman (aka Judy Angel) who was involved in various sectors of Los Angeles independent cinema and live theater. Her work with gay filmmaker Pat Rocco was especially legendary. The article unearths various aspects of her life including her correct birth date.

Here's a link to the article with first 50 downloads for free: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VA4CH6CJIUZCH3MDJ6IS/full?target=10.1080/23268743.2023.2225508

Here's my post about it elsewhere: https://twitter.com/FinleyFrei.../status/1683482248639553536

#bisexualstudies #bisexualhistory #queerfilm #filmstudies #filmhistory #queerhistory #pornstudies #patrocco

Prof. Julia LeydaMar 24, 2023

#CFP from my Inbox: UK conference in Oct 2023

Open to participants from #academia and beyond

#SexualityStudies #GenderStudies #MediaStudies #TelevisionStudies #FilmStudies #TransStudies #SexWork #PornStudies

@academicchatter

https://www.sexincontemporarymedia.com/call-for-papers

Call for Papers | Sex in Media

Sex in Media
Alon LischinskyJan 17, 2023

TFW a sentence rolls off the pen already packed with enough alliteration to satisfy a skald (though probably not Reviewer 2)

“Many dominance/submission practices place participants in recognisable, almost ritualised roles; specific scenarios involving ‘sissy’ submissives can be traced at least to the eighties” #AmWriting #GenderStudies #PornStudies #TransStudies #BDSM

Show threadAlon LischinskyDec 28, 2022
#AmWriting: “Valuable as they are, #sissy memoirs take a position that's marginal in a particularly conventional way, inscribed within existing stereotypes of queerness in the arts as well as aspirational narratives whose class and racial component is rarely examined. And they conventionally treat #GenderNonConformity as inseparable from same-sex desire. The child in sissy memoirs is always implicitly protogay — so always implicitly a man” #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #PornStudies
Show threadAlon LischinskyDec 19, 2022
#AmWriting: “Autobiographical ‘#sissy memoirs’ explicitly reflect on the possibilities for reclaiming #sissiness: childhood pain drives radical self-acceptance culminating in “the sissy triumphant, enraged, jeweled by an elegant crown of his own devising” (Doty, 1999: 106). Deliberately embracing the margins, the adult sissy gains the right to conspicuously flout social rules in a theatrical, glamorous and often playful self-reinvention.” #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #PornStudies
Show threadAlon LischinskyDec 16, 2022
#AmWriting: “An essential part of the policing of gender involves shaming. Yelling ‘#sissy’ at someone lets them know that they have failed to maintain the appropriate standards — but also discourages social engagement unless they can ‘fix’ their nonconforming behaviour. This shaming is performative: identifying and denouncing #sissiness is in fact how young men-in-the-making prove to themselves and others that they are sufficiently manly” #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #PornStudies
Show threadAlon LischinskyDec 15, 2022
#AmWriting: “Grant (2004) has documented how fear and anger at #sissiness became institutionalised in modern capitalism. Pre-industrial households kept children in the women’s sphere regardless of gender, but in urban contexts the need to distinguish boys from girls had become pressing. Child-rearing thus “recast [little boys] as men in the making” (p. 830); any attachment to #femininity was seen as sickly, failed and disordered” #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #PornStudies #sissy
Alon LischinskyDec 13, 2022
#AmWriting: “The figure of the #sissy elicits the strongest responses of fear and anger as a break with patriarchal order: it is not seen merely as an effeminate man, but as a failed one. Whether in schoolyard taunts, in popular media or in psychomedical theory, #sissiness is constructed as an object of derision. And for the most part, scholarship on sissiness has meant scholarship on the pain, shame and abjection of this subject position” #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #PornStudies
Alon LischinskyDec 12, 2022

Look, it's @mixosaurus talking about how the terminology that #trans people use to talk about themselves is a messy assemblage whose past, present and (a fortiori) future is always a challenge to interpret!

(This is at the presentation of the excellent book on #nonbinary identities by @scordoban https://www.routledge.com/Non-Binary-Gender-Identities-The-Language-of-Becoming/Cordoba/p/book/9780367637095. Buy Sebastián's book — but also read the stuff Kat and I are doing on #GenderDiversity in #PornStudies)

(Edited to link to Sebastián's Mastodon account)

Non-Binary Gender Identities: The Language of Becoming

Non-Binary Gender Identities examines how non-binary people discover, adopt, and negotiate language in a variety of social settings, both offline and online. It considers how language, in the form of gender-neutral pronouns, names, and labels, is a central aspect of identity for many and has been the subject of much debate in recent years. Cordoba captures the psychological, social, and linguistic experiences of non-binary people by illustrating the multiple, complex, and evolving ways in which

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