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Queer Teenagers and the Mediation of Utopian Catastrophe, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2010)

Recent cover stories about queer teenagers mark a noticeable shift in the discourse surrounding lesbian,...

 

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Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism, Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2009)

The article reviews the book "Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the...

 

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United We Stand, Divided We Fall”: AIDS, Armorettes, and the Tactical Repertoires of Drag (with Isaac West), Southern Communication Journal (2009)

This essay focuses on the Armorettes, an Atlanta-based drag troupe that has played a critical...

 

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Media/Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2008)

The interludes include reflections by Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Turkel, Tracy Baim of the Windy City...

 

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Banning Queer Blood, Communication Currents (2008)
 

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Passing, Protesting, and the Arts of Resistance: Infiltrating the Ritual Space of Blood Donation, Quarterly Journal of Speech (2008)

This essay critically engages challenges made against the federally mandated deferral policies which prohibit "men...

 

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A Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in Relax . . . It’s, Journal of Homosexuality (2007)

This essay explores the commodification of queer identities in independent cinema, offering particular attention to...

 

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In Defense of Gaydar: Reality Television and the Politics of the GlanceA previous version of this essay was presented at the 2004 National Communication Association's annual convention in Chicago, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2006)

The reality dating programs Boy Meets Boy and Playing It Straight purported to illustrate the...

 

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Seriality and Multicultural Dissent in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2006)

“Seriality” is a useful critical heuristic for engaging the contours of identity politics, as it...

 

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Side By Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling, Journal of GLBT Family Studies (2006)

Review of Side By Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling, edited by Andrew...

 

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Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema, Film Quarterly (2005)

Review of Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema, by Wheeler Winston Dixon

 

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Love Me Gender: Normative Homosexuality and "Ex-gay" Performativity in Reparative Therapy Narratives, Text and Performance Quarterly (2003)

Advocates of "reparative therapy" employ a modified version of Judith Butler's "normative heterosexuality" discourse to...

 

Books

Contributions to Books

A Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in Relax . . . It’s, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, (2007)
 

Presentations

Voices from the Intersections of Rhetoric and Performance, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of NCA (2011)
 

A Method to the Madness: Rhetoric, Public Policy, and the Study of Everyday Life, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association (NCA) Division, (2010)
 

Diabetes on Trial: Sonia Sotomayor and the Rhetoric of Recuperation, Latina/o Studies Division of NCA (2010)
 

Resisting the Rhetoric of Diabetes, Disability Studies Caucus of the National Communication Association (2009)
 

Border Transgressions, Latina/Latino Studies Division of NCA (2007)
 

There are Worse Diseases You Could Have, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of NCA (2006)
 

Intersecting Voices? Embodied Performances of Feminist and Queer Citizenships, Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA (2003)
 

Queer Citizenship and the Stigma of Banned Blood, National Communication Association (2003)
 

Presidential Response to the Emergence of Domestic Terrorism, Political Communication Division of NCA (1997)