We have been to three girl-focused cons this summer and fall: LeakyCon, DashCon and GeekGirlCon. These cons are non-profit, largely run by volunteers, and provide alternative geeky spaces to male-dominated cons. These cons extend the work of social media such as Tumbr by providing safe public spaces where feminist, feminine, and queer young people can...
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Part six of a seven-part series: LeakyCon’s space alters norms of masculine performance, creating a set of genderqueer performance aesthetics tailored to its fangirl attendees.
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Part 4 of a 7 part series: LeakyCon’s LGBT fandom offers insights into the millennial generation’s attitudes towards current gender/identity categories, but they also express desire for more recognition of the multiplicity and fluidity of their identities as a whole.
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Love-hated by many Smash fans though he was, the character of Ellis disrupted hegemonic thinking about sexuality by remaining undefined and uninterested in defining -- something unfortunately "corrected" in the second and final season.
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Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful, like The Wizard of Oz, represents Kansas monochromatically to highlight the queer and colorful world of Oz. But as far as Hollywood's concerned, it's Kansas that's queer.
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Rudolph was created when gayness as identity was rarely represented on screens, instead shunned off into the shadowy world of coded meanings waiting to be activated by knowing readers or “appearing” as semiotic excess waiting to be queered through the practice of camp.
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