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"A Van with a Bar and a Bed": Ritualized Gender Norms in the John/Joan Case
(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2000-04)
Through a critical reading of the mass mediated discourse that arose in the wake of the John/Joan or "twins" case, this analysis investigates contemporary iterations of gender performativity, gendered morals and feminism. ...
Disciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity
(Western States Communication Association, 2000)
Riding in Cars Between Men
(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2005-09)
Through an analysis of public discourse surrounding two different controversies featuring
professional race car driver, Deborah Renshaw, this article foregrounds contemporary relationships between gender and (auto)mobility. ...
"What Lips These Lips Have Kissed": Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing
(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2006-03)
In this essay, we argue that man-on-man kissing, and its representations, have been insufficiently mobilized within apolitical, incremental, and assimilationist pro-gay logics of visibility. In response, we call for a ...