The Winking Eye: Contested Occularcentrism in Postcolonial Queer Space

Assemblage ◽  
2000 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Rodolphe el-Khoury ◽  
R. Lemoine
Keyword(s):  
Queer Space

Popolazione transgender over 50: un intervento clinico psicosessuologico

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Marta Girardi ◽  
Adele Fabrizi ◽  
Chiara Simonelli
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Queer Space

Il concetto di identità di genere è stato motivo di interesse e di studio negli anni fino a giungere alla sua concezione transgender, caratterizzata da un lungo percorso di depatologizzazione che parte dai primi studi di differenziazione tra sesso e genere fino ad arrivare alle classificazioni che i vari manuali diagnostici oggi ci presentano. La concezione transgender dei generi supera la concezione binaria, proponendo una visione fluida che legittima l'esistenza di una varietà di identità di genere in cui potersi riconoscere. I bisogni relativi all'invecchiamento e alla salute degli anziani LGBT sono scarsamente affrontati nei servizi, nelle politiche o nella ricerca. La popolazione transgender over 50, la quale ha vissuto in un contesto so-ciale e storico caratterizzato da forti discriminazioni, si trova ad affrontare una fase di transizione della vita in cui è importante considerare le caratteristiche peculiari di tale vissuto come transgender e gli aspetti relativi alla salute fisica e al supporto sociale. Affacciarci alla visione di invecchiamento transgender vuol dire adottare una prospettiva che si distanzia dagli script eteronormativi prevalenti nella società, e che si avvale di concezioni tipiche di tale vissuto, come quella di queer time e queer space. L'obiettivo di tale contributo è quello di evidenziare le problematiche e le esigenze della popolazione considerata per poter promuovere una figura di clinico attento e consapevole delle peculiarità dell'utenza considerata e un intervento clinico psicosessuologico ad hoc che adotti un approccio biopsicosociale.

Messing up the Domestic: Queer Bodies Expanding Architectures

Somatechnics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-415
Author(s):  
Olivier Vallerand
Keyword(s):  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Queer Space ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Architecture And Design

Queer space discourse in architecture has often been about reclaiming sexualized spaces or spaces used by LGBT people as being part of architectural history. However, critical practitioners have sought to expand from an understanding based on an essentialist understanding of queer bodies to link instead the experience of built environments to the repression of non-normative/non-compliant bodies. This article discusses projects by J. Mayer H., Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN), and MYCKET that build on a queer understanding of architecture and design to explore relationships between bodies, the materiality of domestic spaces, and communal identities, challenging binary understandings of architectural design spaces and linking them to the configuration of citizenship. J. Mayer H.’s work on data-protection patterns and thermo-sensitive materials uses bodies as material in developing a discourse on privacy stemming in part from queer people's experience of oppressing policies. OFFPOLINN's projects on IKEA and on gay cruising digital environments question the role of architects by underlining the close integration of advertisement, online social networks, and urban and architectural policies in relation to the experience of citizenship and migration. Finally, MYCKET's queer feminist performative architectures attempts to reframe the neutrality of the architectural modernist tradition to celebrate the messiness that comes with thinking of space as designed for a diversity of people. The three practices expand architectural discussions of domesticity beyond an understanding of the house as a container for family life and towards seeing it as a nexus of social and political relations that converge around the body.

Queer contestation of neoliberal and heteronormative moral geographies during #occupygezi

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali E Erol
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Moral Geography ◽  
Queer Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Moral Geographies

During the summer of 2013, Turkey witnessed the largest protest movement in the history of the republic. The protests began with environmentalist concerns to save a public park in central Istanbul, Gezi Park, from becoming a shopping mall. However, in a matter of days, the protests turned into a reaction against what many protestors perceived to be the authoritarian rule of the prime minister at the time. While the mainstream protest discourses focused on reacting against such perceptions, which produced sexist and heterosexist discourses, queer discourses were centered on celebrating coexistence and diversity through resistance. Drawing on literatures of queer theory that focus on queer space and moral geography, this article builds on Foucault’s notion of heterotopic space. Using queer linguistics to investigate blog posts that were written at the time of the protest by queer individuals who were taking part in protest, this article investigates the ways in which queer discourses construct the moral geography of the Gezi Park and at the same time challenge neoliberal and heteronormative moral geographies.

Cosmopolitan English, traditional Japanese

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Baudinette
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Queer Space

Abstract The Linguistic Landscape of Tokyo’s premier gay district, Shinjuku Ni-chōme, contains much English-language signage. Previously described in touristic literature as marking out spaces for foreign gay men, this article draws upon an ethnographic study of how signage produces queer space in Japan to argue that English instead constructs a sense of cosmopolitan worldliness. The ethnography also reveals that participants within Ni-chōme’s gay bar sub-culture contrast this cosmopolitan identity with a “traditional” identity indexed by Japanese-language signage. In exploring how Japanese men navigate Ni-chōme’s signage, this article deploys Piller and Takahashi’s (2006) notion of “language desire” to investigate the role of LL in influencing individual queer men’s sense(s) of self. This article thus broadens the focus of LL research to account for how engagement with an LL may impact identity construction, with an emphasis placed on how learning to “read” an LL influences the formation of sexual identities.

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