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Our site is an ongoing work in progress - and will be as long as people continue grappling with our complex sexual pasts. We hope you’ll learn something - or share your own ideas, digital resources, or insights! https://www.sexinthestacks.com/colonized-sexuality-digital-archives daily 0.75 2022-04-29 https://www.sexinthestacks.com/our-working-assumptions daily 0.75 2022-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/2ac823cd-22d2-420c-8c87-f4f894efa2da/palais-sans-souci-milot-ricardo-lartigue_hero.jpeg Our Working Assumptions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sexinthestacks.com/colonized-sexuality-syllabus daily 0.75 2022-04-20 https://www.sexinthestacks.com/healthy-sick-sex daily 0.75 2022-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/635c5cfd-2152-4d2a-91fd-e6136737fec0/Hogarth.jpg Healthy Sex, Sick Sex - Make it stand out Fig. 1“William Hogarth. A Woman Swearing a Child to a Grave Citizen. c.1729.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/8fa5aa0d-b58d-4ca6-baa0-61519b191255/Presumed-Reason-for-Book-Challenge.png Healthy Sex, Sick Sex Fig. 2 Danica Ellis of Bookriot’s breakdown of topics in the 850 books TX Rep. Matt Krause asked the Texas Education Agency were present in the state’s schools, possibly relating to House Bill 3979, which banned the teaching of any materials from which “an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s race or sex” (HB 3979). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/3b85ad63-7c13-41a4-b74c-6f03f0850f94/poppers_cancer.jpg Healthy Sex, Sick Sex - Make it stand out Fig. 3 “Newspaper article -- "As Reports Increase About Rare Illness Killing Gay Men, Researchers and Consumers Ask....Do Poppers Cause Cancer?"“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/b9a3dc90-d98c-4461-b80b-1d24ce878e24/reagannewspaper.jpg Healthy Sex, Sick Sex - Make it stand out Fig. 5 “The Georgia State University Signal, 1983-08-02“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/50294b42-9be3-4071-b5fe-a769b0972520/silence%3Ddeath.jpg Healthy Sex, Sick Sex - Make it stand out Fig. 4 “The Silence = Death Project, color lithograph, 1987“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/d596f56d-6e14-4ae5-a448-d58d969ebc48/wallstreetgays.jpg Healthy Sex, Sick Sex - Make it stand out Fig. 6 “Newspaper clipping -- "Wall Street Closed for 15 Minutes by Angry Gays"“ https://www.sexinthestacks.com/colonized-sexuality-home daily 0.75 2022-04-28 https://www.sexinthestacks.com/heroes-villains daily 0.75 2022-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/98f64ad6-b843-4dac-802b-c6c79b98cfb8/heroes+and+villains.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - Heroes vs. Villains The Rivalry that Cemented a Heteronormative National Consciousness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/64a5e213-f441-4485-933e-647e275a04c7/Ursula.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - Make it stand out Fig 1: Divine the drag queen was the inspiration for Disney’s The Little Mermaid’s villain, Ursula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/1d3c5ea2-8b2b-4e37-bb26-81ee7810bc47/comic+books+2.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - Make it stand out Fig 2: Comic book propaganda during Reagan’s era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/0c8283bb-b2a1-486a-8687-7c41a847f980/Columbus.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - Make it stand out Fig 3: Christopher Columbus being used as a paragon of Italian-American values, despite being born in Genoa (which was it’s own distinct Republic and not part of Italy during his birth) and subsequently moved to Spain for the larger duration of his life. Moreover, the roots of his ‘Italian’ identity are conflicted and widely unknown, and he also may have been Portuguese or Spanish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/f4e7c278-55a8-4bb1-abc6-3e8862d875a2/Columbus+2.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - Make it stand out Fig 4: Christopher Columbus being used as an effigy for entrepreneurial values. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/67878557-18b0-4d6e-a515-7205d5545038/Desert+sword.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan Fig 5: "Marvel Villain “Veil” (Desert Sword) debuted in 1991 as a “personification for Iraqi chemical warfare” - she is eventually brutally brought to the death in the comics by being burned alive by the ‘Freedom Force’ as they comment “barbequed babe coming up”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/fba624ae-e4b0-4da7-98e2-8b689aff18fd/captasin+a.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - “Moreover, as the heteronormative values shifted from their puritan precedents in the early 2000s, Captain America's expression of his sexuality shifted in conjunction. In comic book editions during this period, he imagines a suburban house and a buxom-bikini clad woman’, hence, literally ascribing the American dream with those hetero-nationalistic characteristics.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/afe63fee-311c-4913-ae1a-2875700912b4/superman.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - So how does one escape the emplotment of cultural artifacts, particularly when there has been an active effort to present carefully selected material that facilitate master narratives, and occlude divergent stories? While the heroification and then focalization of speculative fiction and historical literature act as sites where this heteronormative nationalistic orthodoxy is inscribed, I propose that it is only by disentangling oneself from the need to simplify complex narratives into caricatures, that one can escape this categorical dialect. By this I particularly mean, it is by decentering the focus from these anthropomorphic figures, and instead focusing on the ‘gaps in the archive’, where the ‘cultural record’ will always be incomplete due to the efforts of colonial empires. These ruptures in the literature have a dual purpose of serving as evidence for the fallacy of these caricatures and the cracks in their demeanor as well as being as spaces which we can capaciously and imaginatively utilize to tell these ‘impossible’ stories through love (Lowe). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61953a1742428d1d10b12404/0db3b386-66ef-480d-ba9f-c8a29b8a4d0d/propoganda.jpg Heroes vs. Villains - Aania Arslan - “This universalizing formula tries to veil the messy biographies around it, but as the formula itself is a static one, it can easily be critically reviewed and explicated, the contention within the non-alignment of these narratives then act as the conduit of the form of pluralism that decolonial archives can facilitate.” https://www.sexinthestacks.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847921926-YXCEN2JVL6T6OEYSBTQG/image-asset.jpeg Contact