Joshua Falek

As always, Aporias is accepting rolling submissions of short essays (3,000-7,000 words) by junior scholars about any issue in cultural studies. Email or dm me, or see the lateral website below for more information on how to submit to Aporias. csalateral.org/upcoming/#ap...

Second, there is Rouzbeh Shadpey’s “Negative Evidence.” Shadpey demonstrates the challenge that fatigue poses to theory, evincing how fatigue is the very cut, the negativity that separates body and psyche.
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Excited to share two excellent new Aporias articles in Lateral! First there’s Kevin Rigby Jr.’s “What Does Black Protest Appear to Be?,” which considers the intelligibility of Black protest. Rigby puts into tension rupture and representation. csalateral.org/section/apor...

Thank you Dr. Sharpe!

While my PhD is now over, I am also excited to say that I will start a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University in the Program in Literature this fall. If you are in the area, I would love company avoiding the heat.

Thrilled to announce that after six long years, I successfully defended my dissertation today! Massive gratitude to my committee, my examiners, and the many friends, colleagues, mentors, and academic staff who supported me along the way.

And if you are interested in publishing with Aporias, we are still accepting rolling submissions! So, get in touch!

Finally, Renata Prati thoughtfully explores debates about how to theorize depression across affect theory, new materialisms, and feminist studies. csalateral.org/section/apor...

Also thrilled to feature a new essay by Alejandro Beas-Murillo that interrogates how narratives of marronage repeatedly abject the enslaved to foment theories of resistance. csalateral.org/section/apor...

Three new Aporias essays are now out in the latest issue of Lateral! If you haven’t already read Emma Kauffman’s rigorous problematization of the anti-Zionist Jew. Check that out here: csalateral.org/section/apor...

Aporias, a special section of Lateral, is accepting rolling submissions. Aporias features short essays from emerging scholars about controversies or lacunae in cultural studies or related fields. Please see the CFP below. Feel free to DM or email to discuss ideas!
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If you're in Toronto, I will be presenting a paper at 4:30 PM on March 10th through the Theory Now! workshop at York. This paper, "Gender-Affirming Violence," diagnoses a prohibition in trans studies around thinking political violence. @jttremblay.bsky.social will be offering incisive commentary!

waited two years for this freedom of information act request and 64 of the 71 pages are entirely redacted lmaooooooooo

Enemies of the People “It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...

In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.

Instead, I find that this “figment,” who was depicted by the musician as having constant sex changes, is actually another elaboration of ungendering. In so doing, I locate the role of agency, affect and race in contemporary theories of transition.

Though the musician describes both this “alter-ego” and themselves as trans, I question whether that descriptor fits given the willlessness of this “figment made flesh.”

In particular, I attend to a white musician who pretended that they were a black trans person for years. In 2020, the musician came out as nonbinary and explained that playing a Black trans person was necessary for them to comprehend their own nonbinaryness.

This article traces a history of minstrelsy and considers how it undergirds particular white forms of nonbinary expression. I consider how the plasticization of the imagined Black body serves as a metaphorical resource for white nonbinary people to imagine gendered plasticity.

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Excited to announce that my article, “Figment made flesh: minstrelsy and nonbinary embodiment in Of Montreal's Georgie Fruit saga” is out today and open access in Feminist Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Not to mention that effectively many carceral institutions already have a trans-only section: segregation. Incarcerated trans people are far more likely to end up in solitary and often request that, despite its own terror, because of the cruelty that they experience in general population.

Beyond that, the question of a trans only prison was dismissed since Kavanagh v. Canada in 2001, due to the potential of “ghettoization” as well as being a logistical nightmare. It occasionally reappears, but would only further make trans people vulnerable to violence.

These “health and safety concerns” are almost always about the health and safety of carceral institutions…not the trans people who must live in them.

ANALYSIS | Quebec murder case sparks debate over where trans inmates should serve time | CBC News Many, including Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, argue trans inmates shouldn’t have any choice about where they serve time, while trans activists say the current rules don’t really offer much of ...

Horrifying, but not surprising, to see such mistreatment of incarcerated trans people in the name of “health and safety concerns.” This exception has permitted the CSC to quietly rehabilitate their image as “trans friendly,” while increasing surveillance of trans prisoners
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These “health and safety concerns” are almost always about the health and safety of carceral institutions…not the trans people who must live in them.

Politico is reporting trans EOs will include trans people’s passports as well as ending a conversion therapy ban.

Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism <p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...

Out today: CAPACITIES TO: AFFECT UP AGAINST FASCISM, a collection of 40+ pieces that engage fascism through affect. Open access here: imbricate.press/book/capacit...

YouTube video by Steve Grand Steve Grand - All-American Boy (Official Music Video)

teaching about homonormativity today, so students are watching this www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjiy...

And/or I am American and simply do not understand the appeal of Mr. Williams.

besides the fact that it looks like ‘NFT ape: the musical,’ I have no interest in seeing Better Man because I personally have never had the experience of not wanting a dj to “rock” me. In fact, too often, I have been saying, dj please “rock” harder!!

it took years off my life writing the lecture on trans kids, detransitioners, and the myth of the trans feminine predator...I have watched so many horrible Fox News clips now.