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May 18, 2013

Weekend Recap, 5/18/13

In Case You Missed It Calling all LGBT Asian Pacific Americans — Add your voice to this survey from UCLA on coming out and mental health Thinky So about the so-called lack of boy stuff in YA (YA Flash) — “So I have a lot of feelings every single time I hear that people are ... More→

November 12, 2012

YA Fiction and the Many Possibilities of Manhood

Last week at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sarah Mesle (currently a Mellon Fellow in English at UCLA) wrote a provocatively titled essay, “YA Fiction and the End of Boys.” There have been plenty of responses to her piece, many (if not most) of them rejecting the contention implicit in the title: that boys ... More→

March 16, 2011

On cross-dressing and queerness

Earlier this month, the March newsletter from the Sirens Conference arrived in my in box1, and to my pleasant surprise, it included a review of Ash! And what a lovely, smart (and extremely flattering) review it was, too! You can go here to read it if you’d like. One part that jumped out at me ... More→

July 28, 2010

“Salt” and the F-word: Femininity

I saw Salt last weekend. I thought it was awesome. And I kept thinking about it, until I wrote up this whole blog post about the way that femininity is turned on its head in Salt. (Spoilers necessary for analysis ahead!) As the movie begins, Angelina Jolie’s character, Evelyn Salt, is imprisoned and tortured in ... More→

December 21, 2009

Note to James Cameron: Native women are not trophies

Yesterday, after reading Annalee Newitz’s thought-provoking analysis of Avatar (the new James Cameron sci-fi/CGI spectacular), I went and saw it. Wow. I’m not saying “wow” because I thought the special effects were so fantastic. Maybe they were, but I was pretty much aware the whole time I was watching it that I was watching special ... More→

March 17, 2009

New Notes & Queeries: Bring on the butches

Yesterday my latest Notes & Queeries column was published on AfterEllen.com. Titled “Rachel Maddow, Butch Fatale,” it’s a response to the mainstream coverage of Maddow that almost always references her lesbianism and then focuses on her appearance. Here’s a teaser: It was easy to be irritated, if not offended, by Daphne Merkin’s flashy article about ... More→

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