Deviant Leisure and Events of Deviance: A Transgressive Compendium

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This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of critical approaches in leisure studies and event studies within diverse explorations of deviance. It includes chapters on games and gaming; performing queerness; events around being kinkster; drugs and sex, LGBTQ+ events and activism, and goth subculture. These are combined with poetry, personal reflection and artwork, much of which has been created by contributors. The compendium draws on inquiry undertaken by contributors from a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, as well as deviant leisure practitioners/event organisers. It seeks to expand the cultural and academic articulation of deviance into other disciplines and to develop new perspectives on deviant leisure and deviant leisure practice. It speaks to students, researchers, and practitioners working or interested in critical leisure and event studies, queer theory, cultural theory, burlesque/circus studies, media studies, and discourse studies. Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures 1: Introduction: Something Wicked This Way Comes References Part I: Heroes 2: Creatures of the Night 3: Playing It Our Own Way: Trans Deviations of Game Design Introduction Sports Are a Kind of Game: Everything Starts with Roller Derby Other Games That Deviate: “Some Games Let You Pick Your Gender…” Changing the Game and Breaking the Rules Conclusion Post-script References 4: Card Confessions: Digital Forms of Deviance in the Mindsport Bridge Introduction Digital Bridge Method The Confession Public Responses to the Confession Public Responses to Punishment Public Responses to Cheating Public Responses to Digital Bridge Public Responses to COVID-19 Conclusion References 5: The Fall and Rise of Role-Playing Games: From Societal Pariah to Psychological Support Role-Playing Games: What They Are and What They Are Not Role-Playing Games as a Liminal Space A Brief History of Role-Playing Games Satanic Panic The Turning Point Stereotypical Gamer: Representation in Media Versus Reality The Good that Role-Playing Games Do Role-Playing Games During Lockdown Role-Playing as Therapy Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity Disability and Role-Playing Games The Legacy of Concern From Maligned to Mainstream Conclusion Games Mentioned Media Mentioned References Part II: Lodger 6: Skyrocketing 7: There and Back Again: Trains to a Queer Emancipation Introduction Emancipation of the Self Assimilation as Stealth Pandemic Post-script Conclusion References 8: ‘Performing Queer Femininity and Performing It All Wrong’: The Development of the Performance Persona Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen Quintessential Outsider Drag, Dis-ease, and the Body Politic Growing Old Disgracefully Conclusion References 9: The Deviant Leisure of Gym Bodies, Militarized Branding and Fascistic Creeps Introduction Deviant Leisure and Male Physical Cultures Deviant Commodities (Case Studies) Interpretation 1: Mirroring, and Trapped, in Deviant Toxicity? Interpretation 2: Queering Militarized Consumers and a More Contradictory Reading Conclusions References Part III: Outside 10: Family History 11: Easter with the Family Conclusion References 12: Koinonia: Crafting Permission for Queer Deviance Constructing Permission Inviting Deviance Centring Queerness Final Reflections (April 2022) Epilogue (July 2022) References 13: Subcutaneous Stories from the Deviant City: Chemsex Congregations, Urban Explorations, and Occult Inclinations in the Art of Manchester Penetrated 1st Movement: The Intellectual Deviancy of @mcrpenetrated 2nd Movement: An Overview of @mcrpenetrated’s Deviant Art Output ‘Chill’ and ‘Writing About Writing About Chemsex’: Autoethnography as Defiant Deviant Declaration The ‘Sensual Objects’ Series: Sensual Objectification and Analogue Dissemination of Digital Deviancy ‘The Sex-Maps’ Series: @mcrpenetrated’s Deviant Cartographies Dadaist Tendencies in ‘Cruised by Covidly: A Psychosexual Exploration of Future City Salford’ Chemsex Beyond the Chillout: Disrupt/Descend into (the Ancient) Association of Disorderly Identities Cine-Hex ‘We Are the Skin of the City’ and Cut-Up Graffiti Art Series 3rd Movement: A Brief Subcutaneous Drift Under the Skin of the City Sources @mcrpenetrated Bibliography Baxter, S.P.—Filmography References Filmography 14: More Pleasure in My Leisure (or Practice Makes Pervert) History Kinkiness and the Multiverse Identity and Gender Aging Ghosts Decay Alternative Deviance Politics Tourism Performance and Relativity Balance Grammar and Semantics Love Change Whakatauki Activism Safety Grief References 15: … an Afterword: Reflections on a Deviant Journey Towards a Transgressive Compendium Index