The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies)

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The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Figures Contributors 1 Introduction Note Works Cited Section I Histories, Re-Histories, Archives 2 Undoing Happiness With Pleasure: Rhetorics of Affect in The Ladder Affective Circulations “Homosexuality Is Not the Dirty Word It Used to Be” Happy Homonormativity Pleasure and Possibility in the Cruise Notes Works Cited 3 Retroactivism and the Institutional Archive Shifting Alliances: From the 1970s to Today Activism and the “Ordinary” in Archival Studies Identity and Trust Conclusion Works Cited 4 Bisexual Invisibility, David Bowie, and the Prospects of Queer Memory Bi-Invisibility in History and Memory Considering Earthly Messenger Lessons From Remembering Bowie Works Cited 5 The Ready-Made Queerness of Greco-Roman Rhetoric Notes Suggested Reading Works Cited 6 Printing a Queer Identity: Edward Carpenter, Ioläus, and the Affirmation of Same-Sex Desires in the Nineteenth Century Establishing a Commonplace Sexuality Surpassing the Rhetoric of Sexology The Impact of Print On the Construction of a Queer Rhetoric Conclusion Notes Archival Sources Works Cited 7 Re-Storying Trans* Zines On Trans* Epistemology A New Reading of Trans* Zines Zines, Archives, and Histories Influence Upon Zines in the Academy Disciplining Stories Forward From Here Notes Works Cited 8 An Archive of Disposability: (Trans)gender and Sexuality in South Africa Introduction The Trans Homeless Body as an Embodied (Colonial) Cultural Archive of Gender and Sexuality Moments of Unbuilding the Archive of Disposability Through Theatre and Performance Notes Works Cited 9 Re-Historicizing the “Lacking South”: Archiving Queer Memory and Sexual Visibilities in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia … The Myth of the “Lacking South” Queer Memory and Sexual Visibilities Queer Intermediaries Re-Historicizing the Conversation Works Cited 10 The Trans Rhetorical Practice of Archive Building Becoming Subjects Controlling the Story Conclusion Notes Works Cited Section II Methodologies 11 Wobbly Words and Transnational Queer Slippages Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Final Thoughts Works Cited 12 Queer Topoi: Writing “Like” Sedgwick Works Cited 13 Methodologies Not Yet Known: The Queer Case for Relational Research Introduction: Research Is Ongoing Colonization, and You Are an Agent of Empire Queerness Is Settler Colonial Futurity Toward Queer Relationalities—Refusal, Deliberation, Action Methodologizing in a New Queer Relationality Establishing a Research Paradigm Chaining Theory Asking Relational Questions Ending (Or Toward Hopeful Futures) Notes Works Cited 14 Blake Brockington’s Rhetorical Afterlife: Fugitive Black Trans* Data and Queer Kairotic Methodology I. II. III. Notes Works Cited 15 Histories in (Trans)lation: Xie Jianshun and the Potential and Perils of Trans Historiography The Problem of Pronouns: Or, Pronoun as Metaphor Transing Trans of Color Critique Trans*temporal Kinship Notes Works Cited 16 Subatomic Literacies and Queer Quantum Storytelling Relativity, Subjectivity, Proximity Composing Queer Quantum Rhetorics Automythnography as Reflection/Refraction/Diffraction Electrons Keep the Score Time Travel as Intervention Notes Works Cited 17 Between the Sheets: Gavin Arthur’s Sexual Circulation Notes Works Cited 18 Queer Ecovisual Rhetorics Queer Ecovisual Rhetorical Methodologies: Settler Colonial Landscapes as Normative Natures Laura Aguilar’s Queer Ecovisual Rhetorical Methods Conclusion Notes Works Cited 19 Queering Spaces Failure and Mis-Fit in Queer Geographies Tracing Binaries Mapping Spatial Rhetorics Queerly Conclusion Notes Works Cited Section III Communities 20 “Let’s Get Some Family Chosen”: Refugees, Homonationalism, and Queer Family Rhetoric Speaker’s Benefits Consubstantiality Family Values Notes Works Cited 21 Queer Memes as Rhetorical Scenes Notes Works Cited 22 Womyn’s Words: Rhetorical Practices of Lesbians in the Tampa Bay Area Coming Home (An Introduction) A Queer Methodology Identity-Based Writings (1980s to Early 90s) Consensus as Queer Rhetorical Listening Trans Discourse in Womyn’s Words Legacy of Womyn’s Words (A Conclusion) Works Cited 23 Mountain Dirt(y) Queer Rhetorics: Making Appalachian Queerness Visible Author Positionality Statements Appalachia as Place and the Construct of Appalachian Identity Appalachian Rhetorics Queer Appalachian Rhetorics Queer Appalachian Rhetorics in Action Note Works Cited 24 Queer Rhetorics of Resistance in HIV Healthcare Compliance and Individualism in National Strategies for HIV Prevention HIV and Structural Inequity Toward Resistance Works Cited 25 “People Can’t Say I’m a Man, They Can’t Say I’m a Woman”: Reality Expansion in the Kewpie Collection Collecting Kewpie “She’s Gay” Enabling Livability Conclusion: “She’s Queer?” Notes Works Cited 26 Converging in a Room of Our Own: The Ladder, Autostraddle, and Queer Convergence in Online Communities Not So Strange Bedfellows: Queer Rhetoric and Convergence Online Flagging the Rainbow: Constraints of Authority in LGBTQ Online Community Autostraddle: Taking Our Legacy Online The Love That Dared to Type Its Name: The Ladder and Lesbian Author-Ity Murder, She Wrote: Combatting Violent Heteronormative Narratives The Futures and Pasts of Queer Convergence Works Cited Section IV Identities 27 Prescribe for Me, Doctor, for I Have Sex: Rhetorics of Empowerment, Queer Shame, and the Confessional in PrEP Prescribing “Turn Around, Drop Your Pants, and Bend Over the Table.” It Began, Like So Many Things, On Grindr It Has Been Three Months Since My Last Confession Concluding With Chronic Exposure Works Cited 28 Making Nothing Out of Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence Reading for Absence The Politics of Absence and Silence Notes Works Cited 29 The Queer Potential of Bisexual Rhetorics Start Here (Maybe) Tremble, Bisexual Swine Entitled The Bisexual as an Ephemeral Archive “We Seduce You” (Alexander and Rhodes, “Impossible” 201) Bisexual Space, Directions, and Disorientations Or Start Here Let It Pass “A Conclusion, at this Point, Would Be Impossible” (Alexander and Rhodes, “Impossible” 204). Hide and Seek Works Cited 30 Fuck (Gay) Racism: Queer Asian American Rhetorics of Abe Kim’s TikTok Queer Asian American Critique Fuck (Gay) Racism Doing Homely Queer Politics Concluding Remarks Works Cited 31 Anthos, Bottoms, and Anal Sex in Troye Sivan’s “Bloom” “Is This the Summer Bottom Bop We’ve Been Waiting For?”: Troye Sivan, “Bloom,” and the Queering of Pop Troye Sivan, Bottoming, and Classical and Contemporary Anthos Queer Enthymemes, Anthos, and the Anal Rhetoric of “Bloom” “I / Bloom / Just / For / You”: Imagining Bottoming Through Botanical Metaphors and Staccato Rhythm “I’ve Got So Much to Show Ya”: Visual Contrast and (Re-) Constructing the Identity of the Bottom “I Get This Sweet Desire”: Attuning to the Rhetorics and Identities of Queer Sex Notes Works Cited 32 How Much Does It Take?: Persuasion and the Stakes of Will in The Transformation The Stakes of Will The Terms of Transformation Beauty and Suffering Persuasion, Will, and the Conditions of Trans Life Works Cited 33 Irreversible Damage: Trans Masculine Affectability and the White Family Trans Virality The Virus and the Environment Affectable Hosts: When Time Is Not On Your Side Conclusion Works Cited 34 Disidentification (As a Survival Strategy for Religious Trauma) Disidentification The Epistemic Shatterings of Religious Trauma Disidentification as Survival Works Cited 35 Resilient Closets, Addressivity, and Opening Pandora’s Box Incident #1 Addressivity and Opening Pandora’s Box Incident #2 Closeting and Being In-Common-In-Difference Works Cited 36 Rhetoric of the Invisible (Or, How Bisexual People Demand to Be Seen) The History of Bi (In)visibility Rhetorically Negotiating Bisexual Invisibility in the 1990s Navigating Bisexual Invisibility in the Twenty-First Century Bi+ TikTok and the Online Bi+ Community Some Closing Thoughts Notes Works Cited Section V Provocations & Interventions 37 Sexual Assaults, Queer Panics: Gemma Watts and Reynhard Sinaga I From Sex Panics to Sex Crimes II Gemma Watts III Reynhard Sinaga IV Queer Interventions Notes Works Cited 38 Anti-Normativity Under Duress: An Intersectional Intervention in Queer Rhetoric Prelude Anti-Normativity in Queer Rhetoric Anti-Normativity as Normative Or, Recasting Normativities Taking Trans Critiques of Cisheteronormativity Seriously Works Cited 39 Lettering Me Queer: An Open Letter to Gurlesque Works Cited 40 Chronicity Rhetoric as Queercrip Activism Chronicity and Images of Queercrip Agency The Liberatory Possibilities of Chronicity Rhetoric Coda: Living Chronicity Rhetoric Works Cited 41 Rhetorical Work: Genre Fluidity as a Queer Rhetorical Practice of Activists: a Play/in Multiple Acts Dramatis Personae Scene Time Works Cited 42 On Taking the Bottom’s Stance, Or Not Your Typical Submissive Notes Works Cited 43 “Soft Armor” for Ugly Bodies: The Radical Visibility of Queercrip Fashion Fashioning Ugly Bodies Radical Visibility and the Stare Notes Works Cited 44 Dear Queer Memoir Writers … Notes Works Cited 45 Queer Rhetorics as Intervention Methods: The Curious Case of Conversion Violence An Illogical, Poor, and Queer Framework Queer Rhetorical Intervention: Reading Between the Lines Queer Rhetorical Interventions: Telling Unsexy Stories and Unfossilizing Dominant Narratives An Unsexy Story Queer Rhetorical Interventions: Writing Unsexy Stories With Caution Closing: Forward Directions Note Works Cited Section VI Speculations 46 The Fabulous Rhetorics of Queer Inhumanity: Speculating With Queer Inhuman Figures to Restory Queerphobic Histories Fabulousness and Queer Inhuman Rhetorics: A Conceptual Framework Methods Vignette 1. Hybrid Inhumans: Coyote and the Minotaur Teacher Vignette 2: Ghostly Inhumans: Carlos and the “Ghast” of Homophobia A Speculative Conclusion Notes Works Cited 47 The Queer Babadook: Circulation of Queer Affects The Circulation of Queer Negative Affects The Start of a Babadiscourse in Tumblr: Queer Negative Identification and Queer Trolling Circulation Beyond Tumblr: The Babadook and Stickiness Queering Circulation: Reverbs Conclusion: Queer Resonances of Affect Notes Works Cited 48 Rhetorics of Gay Future and Queer Futurity: Strategies of Disruption Strategy One: Perspective By Incongruity Strategy Two: The Space-Off Strategy Three: Queer Temporal Camp Strategy Four: Queering Youthism Conclusion Works Cited 49 (Queer) Optimism Ain’t (Im)Possible What Might Happen If We Refuse, in the Tradition of Radical Black Feminism, the Binary of Normative/Antinormative (Read: Rhetoric/Queer)? What Becomes Possible If We Reconsider Material-Discursive Structures When Attending to the Rhetorical Affects of Queer? Is It Possible to Create a Subjectless/Objectless Critique Without Engaging the Predictable “Bad Habits” of Critical Theory? Queer Optimism Ain’t Impossible Works Cited 50 Between Queer and Digital: Toward an Understanding of the Rhetoric of Digital Queerdom Introduction Defining What Is Known Locating Queer Rhetoric in Digital Space The Queer Wired Neighborhood A Realized Digital Queerdom The Queer Digital Future Works Cited 51 Queering the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: Bodies, Embodiment, and the Future Queerness in the Rhetorics of Health and Medicine Pathologizing the Queer Body The Annihilation of the Queer Body in Health and Medicine Interventions Katie’s Body Matt’s Body Maria’s Body No “Right Way” to Have a Body/Marginalized Bodies as Queer Bodies Conclusion, Or Wait What’s Queer (Here)? Works Cited 52 Cuir-Ing Queer: Speculations On Latin American Notions of Queerness Notes Works Cited 53 Queer Hauntings, Queer Renewings Works Cited 54 Pathological Desire, Perverse Erotics, and Paraphiliac Entelechies Pathological Desire Perverse Erotics Paraphiliac Entelechies Works Cited Index