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Janelle Monáe’s “Q.U.E.E.N.” as Contemporary Court Masque

December 1, 2022November 2, 2022 by Olivia Cummings

The title of Janelle Monáe’s 2013 single “Q.U.E.E.N. ” is an acronym for Queer, Untouchables, Emigrants, Excommunicated, and Negroid. By claiming a royal title for people ostracized for who they are, Monáe subverts traditional racial, sexual, and class hierarchies, using the song and its music video, which she calls an “emotion picture,” to pose radical questions about equality and power. The video casts Monáe and company as rebel … Read more

‘All Hail the Queen’: Cultural Bearing, Civic Engagement, and the Mardi Gras Indian Queens

December 1, 2022November 1, 2022 by Virginia H. Cope

I was born a Queen, sweetie; my momma was a Queen, I come from a Queen. – Kelly Ann Pearson I call on all Grand Motherseverywhereon the planetto riseand take your placein the leadershipof the world. – Alice Walker, “Calling All Grand Mothers” With her declaration of hereditary royalty, Kelly Ann Pearson lays claim to … Read more

“Honi soit qui mal y pense:” Succession, Race, and Gender in the Demi-Monde of Storyville, New Orleans

July 14, 2023October 26, 2022 by Aviva Helena Neff

Amidst the radical changes that swept through Louisiana following Reconstruction, New Orleans became infamous for its identity as a city of revelry and carnal expression, particularly after Alderman Sidney Story’s 1897 legislation decriminalized sex-work in a quarter of New Orleans that came to be known as Storyville. An ostensibly racially-integrated quarter in the heart of … Read more

Introduction

December 6, 2022October 26, 2022 by Mira Assaf Kafantaris

Few words have the co-extant malleability and fixity of the word “queen.” Across its multi-sited uses, a connective thread of regal femininities emerges. Evoking everything from hierarchy, reverence, inheritance, and status to empire and conquest, “queen” can invoke delight and disdain in the same breath. Whether attributed through birthright or victory in battle or competition, … Read more

The Scholar and the Feminist X:
The Question of Technology – April 23, 1983

August 30, 2022June 8, 2022 by Janet R. Jakobsen

Conference Program (PDF, 264 KB) Morning Session Welcoming RemarksEllen V. Futter, President, Barnard CollegeMan, Machine, and Myth: A Feminist Historical Perspective on TechnologyJudith A. McGaw, University of PennsylvaniaAdvanced Technology, International Development, and Women’s EmploymentMaria Patricia Fernandez Kelly, San Diego State UniversityNew Machines, New Bodies, New Communities: Political Dilemmas for a Cyborg FeministDonna Haraway, University of California-Santa … Read more

Links

June 6, 2022 by Laura Levitt

Feminist / Women’s Studies Journals Feminist StudiesGendersOutskirtsSIGNSThird Space Feminist Magazines BitchBustMs.

’67 Remembered

August 10, 2022June 1, 2022 by Irena Klepfisz

From A Few Words in the Mother Tongue by Irena Klepfisz. for Khane In ’67 you visited with your sister.I was in Chicago. Richard Speck had just murderedseven nurses. We were scared. The war was onlya few days over and everyone saidhow well you and Gitl looked. Who wouldhave thought you’d just comefrom a war-torn countrydressed chic in late ’60s fashionsmiling easy relaxedconfident the worst was over?I … Read more

“Farlangen” (Longing) by Metropolitan Klezmer

August 10, 2022June 1, 2022 by Eve Sicular

For queer listeners, most love songs become acts of translation. The matter of my creating a less alienated expression for this Yiddish song of love and yearning involved simply switching syllables. While Yiddish as a language of desire might be foreign to most audiences, making the object of a woman’s desire female was part of … Read more

The Sleepwalkers

August 10, 2022June 1, 2022 by Maya Barzilai

From Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends, Volume 10, Number 1, 2004. “Mostly what I’m trying to say is that everyone’s sleep walking, gotten used to this strange lifestyle and thinking as little as possible about what is happening in Gaza, or just over the next hill. Just moving through the heavy air … Read more

Janelle Monáe’s “Q.U.E.E.N.” as Contemporary Court Masque

‘All Hail the Queen’: Cultural Bearing, Civic Engagement, and the Mardi Gras Indian Queens

“Honi soit qui mal y pense:” Succession, Race, and Gender in the Demi-Monde of Storyville, New Orleans

Introduction

The Scholar and the Feminist X:
The Question of Technology – April 23, 1983

Links

Recommended Reading

’67 Remembered

“Farlangen” (Longing) by Metropolitan Klezmer

The Sleepwalkers

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