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Are Italians Brown? Categorical Miscegenation and Early Twentieth Century Italian Homosexuality
Abstract: Recent critical race theory suggests that, in the modern period, categories of race, gender, nation, and sexuality are mutually constitutive and largely indistinguishable. This essay explores the historical co-constitution of Italian racial identity and homosexuality in several works of…
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Queer Black Italy and the Politics of Experience
I recently took an invaluable and enlightening course designed to help instructors add material on Italians of African descent — or what is increasingly called Black Italy—to the Italian Studies curriculum. The course was a rich resource of information on…
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Queer #me too NYTimes
Like many men, in light of the #metoo movement, I have been led to reexamine my own sexual history. But as someone whose typical partners have been men, the stakes are different. For, according to one thread of #metoo’s logic,…
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Apocalyptic Sex
Beyond building a robust and reliable sourdough starter and finally being able to play Chopin’s G minor ballade to its bravura conclusion, the most positive if surprising circumstance to come out of my COVID-19 quarantine is a reinvigorated marital sex…
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Queer Ventennio – Book Review
Dr. Alessio Ponzio, Assistant Professor of Modern European History and the History of Gender and Sexuality, wrote this review of Queer Ventennio for the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.