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“Un-Straightening Generative AI: How Queer Artists Surface and Challenge the Normativity of Generative AI Models”, Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Franchesca Spektor, Alicia DeVrio, Maarten Sap, Haiyi Zhu & Sarah Fox
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.09805 [EN] [13 p.]
Workshop study of the use of AI by queer artists
#queer #queerstudies
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Un-Straightening Generative AI: How Queer Artists Surface and Challenge the Normativity of Generative AI Models

Queer people are often discussed as targets of bias, harm, or discrimination in research on generative AI. However, the specific ways that queer people engage with generative AI, and thus possible uses that support queer people, have yet to be explored. We conducted a workshop study with 13 queer artists, during which we gave participants access to GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 and facilitated group sensemaking activities. We found our participants struggled to use these models due to various normative values embedded in their designs, such as hyper-positivity and anti-sexuality. We describe various strategies our participants developed to overcome these models' limitations and how, nevertheless, our participants found value in these highly-normative technologies. Drawing on queer feminist theory, we discuss implications for the conceptualization of "state-of-the-art" models and consider how FAccT researchers might support queer alternatives.

arXiv.org
BagolinaDec 20

The #ArchivalTurn as Practice
https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/14071
This article reflects on the significance of the affective turn for work in cultural studies and #queerstudies, paying particular attention to the distinction between #archivaltheory and #archivalpractice. It focuses on #queerarchives and especially the creative methods of artists in the #archives. It closes with a brief return to #Derrida’s #ArchiveFever by way of acknowledging its influence

Super articles à lire dans le dernier #archivaria

The Archival Turn as Practice | Archivaria

Thibault Le HégaratDec 18

Très content d'avoir encore pu placer un sujet relatif à la transidentité dans un prochain numéro de magazine. Ce sera la deuxième fois après cette brève-ci: https://www.scienceshumaines.com/les-athletes-trans-une-longue-histoire_fr_47668.html

#queerstudies

Les athlètes trans, une longue histoire

En 1934, l’athlète tchécoslovaque Zdena Koubek bat le record du monde du 800 mètres et remporte deux médailles aux Jeux mondiaux féminins de 1934, avant…

Sciences Humaines
Show threadActu FanficDec 17
“Boys Love (Yaoi) Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand”, Veluree Metaveevinij
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue49/veluree2.html [EN] [11 p.]
On gay fanfiction and political activism in Thailand
#BL #queerstudies #thailand #politicalactivism
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Intersections: Boys Love (Yaoi) Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand

Ejournal examining issues of Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

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“Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling”, Jennifer Duggan
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9 [EN] [22 p.]
On queer Harry Potter fanfiction
#harrypotter #queerstudies
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Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling - Children's Literature in Education

The politics of children’s literature and the actors surrounding it have never been more visible than they are now, in the digital age. As one of the first children’s series to gain widespread popularity concurrently with the spread of the internet, the Harry Potter septet arrived on the global stage at the perfect moment to develop an avid, connected fandom. But the fandom has laid bare the many conflicting ideologies of the fans themselves and of the actors surrounding the texts. This article examines the contentious issue of gender nonnormativity and its relation to the Harry Potter texts, the queer/trans reading practices and political resistance common to the fandom, and the ongoing disagreements over gender, made visible on social media, between Rowling and the fans of her series. The article discusses the Harry Potter novels’ varied and conflicting ideologies; queer/trans readings of the Potter septet, including both invitations and resistances to queer/trans reading by Rowling herself; how gender is queered and queried in and through fan fiction; and finally, the recent hostilities between Rowling and her fans. It concludes by discussing the worsening relationship between Rowling and her fans and highlighting how fans are using their collective power to undermine Rowling’s gender politics through fan fiction. By doing so, the article traces the complex politics of the reception of books for young people in the digital age, demonstrating that authors’ powerful voices continue to shape readers’ responses to texts long after their publication but showing, too, that readers often resist authors’ attempts to influence not only their textual interpretations but their politics.

SpringerLink
Carmilla DeWinterDec 7
Heute dann eine Konversation von Ela Przybylo zu Ace Gaze und Yash Gupta zur Frage, wie Aces in Südasien durch ihre Gesellschaften navigieren.
Vegane Pizza, eine Vorpremiere von Flora Boros' getanztem Kommentar zu hypersexualisierten Musikvideos.
Danach Luke Brunnings philosophische Frage danach, was sexuelle Anziehung eigentlich überhaupt ist.
#asexualität #aromantik #asexuell #aromantisch #acestudies #queerstudies #philosophie
Show threadActu FanficDec 3
“Representing disability in queer fanfiction: Analyzing the role of whiteness and intimacy in depicting desirable disabled masculinity”, Marty Heath
https://doi.org/10.19245/25.05.pij.9.2.4 [EN] [15 p.]
Analysis of the tendency to reproduce whiteness and maleness in fanfiction
#cripstudies #queerstudies #malex
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FID Anglo-American CultureNov 22

Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with Colby Gordon highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment

#TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory

FID Anglo-American CultureNov 20
At #BritCult2025 #conference in Bamberg: impressive 🌈🏳️‍🌈 -coloured signs guided us to the university rooms, where the Postgraduate Forum took place.
#BritCult25 #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies
Technische Universität BerlinNov 4

🗣️ Zu seinem 30-jährigen Bestehen veranstaltet das @zifg_tu der #TUBerlin eine Ringvorlesung mit wissenschaftlichen & aktivistischen Perspektiven u.a. aus den #GenderStudies, #QueerStudies, der Männlichkeits- & Rassismusforschung u.v.m.

An der Schnittstelle von Theorie, Forschung und politischer Praxis lädt die Vorlesungsreihe dazu ein, sich mit Geschlechterverhältnissen kritisch zu befassen.

📅 Auftakt am 06.11.

👉 https://www.tu.berlin/go277297/n79258/