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Queerness, fantasy and Marxist materiality

By Alexis Lothian February 5, 2010 queer, theory

Yesterday I attended a talk on “Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism,” with Jordana Rosenberg, Amy Villarejo, and Meg Wesling. Even given my propensity to take copious notes, I…

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WisCon, fanacademia and internet drama

By Alexis Lothian May 31, 2008 fandom, theory

Last weekend I attended WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention with an academic track. Immediately after the convention I flew to London (after first flying back to LA, and yes,…

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Paper from Console-ing Passions

By Alexis Lothian April 27, 2008 fandom, queer, race, theory

I just got back from Console-ing Passions in Santa Barbara, a wonderfully inspiring and exciting conference. This is the paper I presented. It connects a lot to the questions I…

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old percolations on affect and fandom

By Alexis Lothian April 16, 2008 fandom, theory

I haven’t been the best of bloggers, have I? It’s so long since I posted, WordPress has changed its interface. The conference went very well, anyway. Tavia Nyong’o gave a…

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Cylon futures

By Alexis Lothian February 25, 2008 media, queer, theory

Science fiction in book form was and is my first and most enduring fannish love. It gave me ways to imagine worlds and people differently, models for gender and sexuality…

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Pirate utopianism (DIY video)

By Alexis Lothian February 11, 2008 media, theory

SHUT UP AND MAKE SOMETHING, says the back of my tight-fitting volunteer T-shirt. I’m not too good at either, so I’ll compromise by making a blog entry. Whether that counts…

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What (who) is a geek, anyway?

By Alexis Lothian February 5, 2008 theory

At those painful and frequent academic moments when one has to sum up one’s entire intellectual existence (not to mention worth) in a couple of perfectly poised sentences, I often…

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Solipsistic intimacies

By Alexis Lothian January 24, 2008 theory

A blog is an exercise in navel-gazing (except when it isn’t, and there are plenty on my blogroll which are not); even my earliest teenage paper diaries are filled with…

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Alexis Lothian

Associate Professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studes; Core Faculty in Design Cultures and Creativity; Affiliate Faculty in American Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland College Park

Author, Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (NYU Press, 2018)

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