Two days ago, I was on the road for 14 hours so I missed the National Coming Out Day celebration. This day is important to me and many others. I came out when I was young. At the time, over twenty-one years ago, I did not know one person who was out of the closet….
Tag: lgbtq
God Beyond Gender: On Peter Wilkes’ A Woman Called God
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on May 18, 2015 I wrestle intellectually from time to time with the issue of god and gender. Maybe you do, too. Over time, I’ve grown skeptical about the importance of gender to divinity, as gender seems like a human issue, whereas God, to me, is unfathomably beyond…
Getting Real about Cultural Illusions: Review of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on February 18, 2015 A title like “Bad Feminist” is about as rhetorically effective as it gets: it’s divisive, it’s evocative, it’s thought provoking, it’s maddening, and it’s badass. The simple act of placing a moralistic modifier before “feminist” pulls you in as much as it irksomely pushes…
Review of The Queer Cultural Work of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on November 21, 2014 Jennifer Reed’s The Queer Cultural Work of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, released by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2013, will be of interest to an array of readers, particularly to Tomlin fans and those with an interest in queer theory and gender studies. As…
“Gay Cure” Now Off the Market: Exodus International Says a Healing Goodbye to an Era of Shame and Trauma
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on June 21, 2013 The news is out and on repeat, as usual, only this time: it’s personal, the kind that makes you cry in relief and do a dancey-dance at the same time. How often do we feel that what we read is relevant and personal to…
Radical Feminism is for Sisters, Not Just Cisters: Why We Need an Overtly Trans-Inclusive Radical Feminist Resurgence
Radical Feminism is for Sisters, Not Just Cisters: Why We Need an Overtly Trans-Inclusive Radical Feminist Resurgence Abstract This paper engages with the idea that radical feminism is inherently transphobic and exclusionary, exploring gray areas in what some have criticized as radical feminism’s promotion of a biologically essentialist position on the concepts of sex and…
Lawrence Welk Fans: The Long-held (and Lang-held) Tradition of Lesbian Coding
“At gigs, she teased the crowd: ‘There’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you for a while … I am a L-L-Lawrence Welk fan.’ In the Advocate interview, she stopped speaking in code.”
Headmistress Press + Hexmistress Jess 