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  Macho Dancer: Agonizing Contexts, or What to do about hot men gyrating?

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  February 02, 2026

  Macho Dancer: Agonizing Contexts, or What to do about hot men gyrating? Curator's Note CONTEXT: BENEVOLENT AUTHORITARIAN On September 23, 1971, using the pretext created by the combination of a communist insurgency, a Muslim insurrection on the south ...
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  Swing's Fabulation: Keeping Time

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 02, 2025

  Swing's Fabulation: Keeping Time Keeping Time liquid blackness Curator's Note “Did you notice we put some swing in that one?” asks Horace Tapsott’s mother, Mary Lou Malone (played by musician Nia Andrews), in a flashback. [1]  Horace and his mot ...
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  Failing to Arouse: Pornographic Aesthetics of Queerness

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  March 10, 2025

  Failing to Arouse: Pornographic Aesthetics of Queerness constellation Queer Studies pornography aesthetic Curator's Note The recently rediscovered and remastered 1975 gay demonic possession pornography,  Sex Demon, poses the unsettling question: what ...
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  Abject Martyrdom_ Queer Becomings in João Pedro Rodrigues

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  December 03, 2024

  Abject Martyrdom_ Queer Becomings in João Pedro Rodrigues queerness martyr João Pedro Rodrigues St. Sebastian Abjection The Ornithologist Curator's Note Martyrs have held a unique place in the queer canon. The imaginary of the sacrificial and the rea ...
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  A Pedagogy of the B-Side

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  September 13, 2023

  A Pedagogy of the B-Side pedagogy black study community education Curator's Note One of the many exciting provocations from liquid blackness ’s research project “Music Video as Black Art” is showing how the music video is a site of collision for Blac ...
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  To Witness: Robert Yang's "Handle with Care"

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 16, 2017

  To Witness: Robert Yang's "Handle with Care" Handle with Care queer queer games Repression Robert Yang transformative games trauma video games witnessing Curator's Note Robert Yang’s Handle with Care  (HWC), a game about marriage couns ...
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  You Can’t Conjure as a Coven of One

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 05, 2017

  You Can’t Conjure as a Coven of One Tarell McCraney queer cinema queer Moonlight Magic Jafari Allen film erotics conjuring blackness black magic Audre Lorde aesthetics Curator's Note The 2017 keynotes for Morehouse’s Safe Space week (“Allure: Conjuri ...
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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  June 09, 2016

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  Not a Creature Type: Playing While Queer queerness Magic the Gathering Magic LGBTQ fandom auto-ethnography Curator's Note My two common experiences walking into my local card shop for Friday Night Magic are the faint but ever-present smell of week-ol ...