Spring Fever PANIC! and Sexuality as Living Literature
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Spring Fever PANIC! Reading: Sexuality and Resistance as Living Literature Our philosophical and historical discussion of sexuality in American culture has been informed by renowned and canonized fiction, as well as scientific contexts and personal documents. This PANIC! reading project is a blend of theories, realities, fictions, and confessions in a theatrical, real-time, literary […]
Spring Fever PANIC! and Sexuality as Living Literature
Tags: discourse, homosexuality, language, resistance
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The Language of Determinism
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
“Five minutes old, and already the themes of my life – chance and sex – announced themselves” (216). In our last seminar, we attempted to draw a clear line between fate and destiny, a divinely determined vs. mystical propulsion of the universe and its characters. Well, Cal doesn’t quite dive for the line, and […]
The Language of Determinism
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Gendrification
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
One time, a professor told us about a series of ten confirmed genders that lie on a spectrum between “male” and “female.” This is per the scarce liberal arms of the scientia sexualis establishment. In the years since I acquired this information, I have hazily wondered why there are only restrooms designated for two genders. […]
Gendrification
Tags: family, gender roles, identity, scientia sexualis, social constructivism
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Final project reading invite
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Hello Class, I’m reposting this in case anyone is interested in attending the reading I will be recording for my final project. The reading is this Wednesday at 8 PM. Each reader will read a ten minute erotica piece, and series host Charlie Vasquez will make many exciting literary announcements. Please feel free to e-mail […]
Final project reading invite
Tags: homosexuality, language
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Gayness in public, Judaism as identity, and insanity in women
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Tony Kushner’s two-part play Angels in America is heavy on sexuality, disease, politics, professional discrimination, religion, race, and gender. The two themes that stick out most to me are sexuality and gender. The portrayal of the Jewish identity as ethnicity versus religion is very realistic for the modern day, and it is not a treatment […]
Gayness in public, Judaism as identity, and insanity in women
Tags: HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, hysterization, identity, perversion, power, women
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
I just looked at this lengthy and detailed Times article about how marriage correlates with health. It compares the first study of its kind in the 19th century with present-day conceptions of marriage and health. A very insightful read on sciencia sexualis, physical health, psychology, and personal lifestyle choices. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/magazine/18marriage-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me
Tags: marriage, scientia sexualis
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Humbert the Humiliated
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
The range of psychoses related in Lolita is relentless. The entire text could be a document in Peiss’s textbook, and wading through these murky waters becomes an exercise in suspicion. Humbert’s mixture of paranoia and recklessness makes me root for his success in keeping his and Lo’s anonymiy despite my increasing disgust and fury with […]
Humbert the Humiliated
Tags: desire, discourse, language, literature, metaphor, perversion
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Spring Fever Panic
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Hello Class, Here is Charlie’s announcement for the reading I will be participating in and filming for my final project. Please feel free to come on down for the reading, a drink, a game of pool, and a chat with real live gay writers! This is from www.firekingpress.com: SPRING FEVER PANIC! w/ Robert Smith, Rosalind […]
Spring Fever Panic
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Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness This week, while reading Nabokov’s masterpiece, I was also traveling around the National Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. My absorption of the narrative was contextualized by the event — Japanese trees in bloom, tourists and GW students of all ages, races, intellects, couplings, and persuasions.
Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness
Tags: education, power, women
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Public and Private, In Writing
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Public and Private, In Writing Walt Whitman’s romantic poems are most usually written to romanticize nature and the heavenly practices of growing grass. This excerpt from “Calamus” however is a an escape into nature for some much needed sensual privacy. Whitman comes here not to reflect on the seclusion of nature, but on the necessarily […]
Public and Private, In Writing
Tags: homosexuality, perversion, women
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