"Beautiful and Lofty Things": Queer Appeals to Power & Turn of the Century Sexology
Sexology’s relationship with homosexuality is more ambiguous and complex than a simple and clear-cut categorisation into the homo/hetero binary. [...]
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A Cult of Representation: Ignoring Harmful Ideologies in Favor of Queer Rep
Perhaps what we need is a new *L Word*; one filled so thoroughly with minority representations that we no longer are the minority; one that does not utilise our representations to justify harmful normative ideals. [...]
Enormous, Threatening, Yet Dimly Perceivable: On Creating Radical and Threatening Postmodern Art Under Late Capitalism
Written for an essay/blog assessment in a sociology of pop culture course at the University of Auckland in September 2015. As I occupy the [...]
Biopower, death, and normative biopolitical genocide
Foucault states that state racism “does make the relationship of war – ‘if you want to live, the other must die’ – function in a way that is completely new and that is quite compatible with the exercive of biopower”. The ‘completely new’ way he references is normative biopolitical genocide. [...]
Score! Rugby, Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Queer Deaths
Masculinity has many negative outcomes in society, for men and others. As it stands, the construction of masculinity in Aotearoa is heavily influenced by sport, in particular rugby, which, according to Richard Pringle, holds a privileged sociocultural position in our society. [...]
