“What I Am Is Defined by Who I Am”: Resistance in Bio-Power
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Weeks ago, we had touched on Foucault’s ideas of bio-power, but I feel it is only this week that these ideas are being played out, in primary sources and fiction. The last time I talked about bio-power was in relation to WWI and the “Keeping Fit to Fight” campaigns that promoted safer sexual activity in […]
“What I Am Is Defined by Who I Am”: Resistance in Bio-Power
Tags: bio-power, HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, power relations, resistance
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Finding Angels in a World of Loss
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Finding Angels in a World of Loss The angelic prophecy has been revealed, and it has been rejected—by its own would-be prophet, Prior Walter. The prophecy is to just stop: to stop moving and migrating and changing, and if that happens, maybe God will return. Prior finds this prophecy a farce at best, dangerous at […]
Finding Angels in a World of Loss
Tags: angels, HIV/AIDS, homosexuality
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Beyond the Pleasure Principle First, in the document “Policing Public Sex in a Gay Theater, 1995” (Peiss, 454), I found the degree of detail mandated quite interesting. Not simply “what act,” which would be the only legitimate question in regards to sanitation, but full bodied descriptions, proximity of the voyeur, and the lighting. If an […]
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Tags: ars erotica, fantasy, HIV/AIDS, pleasure, reality, truth, voyeurism
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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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Response to Angels in America
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Response to Angels in America “Roy: Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels, that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that” (Millennium Approaches, Act 1, […]
Response to Angels in America
Tags: HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, language, scientia sexualis
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Sula (No Other Title Necessary)
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Sula (No Other Title Necessary) Last year one of my political science professors was talking about the 2004 presidential election. He mentioned that in a debate between the two VPs (Cheney and Edwards), the two were asked a question about the number of black women in America getting infected with AIDS every year. As my […]
Sula (No Other Title Necessary)
Tags: gender roles, HIV/AIDS, politics, race
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Blood Wanted: No Gay Men Need Apply
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Blood Wanted: No Gay Men Need Apply This past week I went to donate blood for the first time. As I filled out an extensive questionnaire meant to ensure my donated blood would not pass on infectious diseases, I noticed the official list of people who may not donate blood. It banned people with certain […]
Blood Wanted: No Gay Men Need Apply
Tags: donating blood, FDA, gay men, HIV/AIDS
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