In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to
examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural …

What can be said about the photograph at left? At first glance, viewers will likely recognize
the larger background object as a boulder: rough textured, sand colored, partly in shadow …

This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the
affectivity and relationality—indeed the bonds—of queerness as it is presently theorized …

COVID-19 both is and isn't the name of a virus; it is many histories, many bodies, many
politics. It is also the name of differential bodily burdens, differential state resourcing, and …

“Queer Inhumanisms” from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal
and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus …

Recent philosophical tendencies of “Actor-Network Theory,”“Object-Oriented Ontology,” and
“Speculative Realism” have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the …

Scene 1: The Oprah show. Thomas Beatie and his wife, Nancy, sit down before Oprah
Winfrey for a television interview. The show has advertised the meeting: pictures flash by of …

How might one properly represent a toxin or infectious agent, and what directives inform that
propriety? How might toxins take on characteristics well beyond their physical properties …

The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the
work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism …

This article examines concepts whose strictly medical applications have only partly informed
their widespread use and suggests that demonstrably shared logics motivate our thinking …