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Cyberqueer & the importance of transgender representations in the internet for gender politics
February 29, 2008, 11:25 am
Filed under: internet, queer, representation | Tags: , , , ,

My core interest is how the undermining of stable gendered subjects undermines consumerism and global capitalism altogether. Here I give an overview of contrasting views about the political potential of cyberqueer.

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Laura, Sylvie, Miss Benham and all of them queers
February 3, 2008, 2:24 pm
Filed under: film | Tags: , , , , ,

This article discusses my reading of ‘Victim’ (1961) directed by Dierden and Relph and writen by Janet Green but in relation to Richard Dyer’s essay ‘Victim: hegemonic project’ in Dyer, R. (1993) The Matter of Images, Routledge. Though the film is part of a tradition in British cinema between 1956-1963 that deals with social problems, it is the very first movie where male homosexuality and the law that criminalized it are explicitly addressed.

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