Sexualities
Book review: AIDS & Representation: Queering portraiture during the AIDS crisis in America
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Viral ecologies: Refiguring ‘psychic immunology’, in the art of Helen Chadwick
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This article examines the artist Helen Chadwick’s 1989 digital montage series Viral Landscapes as an intervention in discourses of immunity circulating around the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the UK. The Viral Landscapes are unusua…
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Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Postwar Japan has built a new self-image as a peaceful, ethnically homogeneous island nation, obscuring the imperialist past. In this context, same-ethnic/racial partnering or so-called ethnic endogamy has been reinforced, …
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Phallic metaphors and metonyms: Emerging meanings of Viagra and masculinity in news media
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. When Viagra was first introduced, it was presented as a new pharmaceutical with potentially revolutionizing effects in various forms of media across the globe. While it is no longer a new pharmaceutical, it still continues …
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Chemsex as wild self-care
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Chemsex has received increasing scholarly attention over the past few years and is frequently defined as the sexualised use of synthetic drugs. There is an emerging binary within the literature on chemsex that portrays it a…
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“We are in a very precarious position”: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The p…
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Strategies of passing: Hypervisible bodies, disrespectable affinities, and Syrian trans refugees in Lebanon
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. In today’s Lebanon, Syrian trans refugees face intersecting systems of violence that position them as hypervisible ‘deviants’ in multiple ways: as refugees without formal legal residency, as trans individuals without congru…
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Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people are frequently used to represent pain, suffering, shame, and disgust in dominant heteronormative and ableist discourses. However, many queer, trans, and crip scholars, artis…
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Both because of and in spite of: Towards the reclamation of queercrip joy
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. Queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people are frequently used to represent pain, suffering, shame, and disgust in dominant heteronormative and ableist discourses. However, many queer, trans, and crip scholars, artis…
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A case of chronic survivance: Decolonizing the epidemiology of HIV
Sexualities, Ahead of Print. This paper argues that integrating Native American art, tradition, and healing practices into public health offers an effective intervention for revitalizing conventional sexual health strategies within Native American and …