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QUEER YOUTH CULTURES -- contents -- INTRODUCING QUEER YOUTH CULTURES -- Part 1. PERFORMATIVE QUEER YOUTHCULTURES, EMBODIMENTS, AND COMMUNITIES -- 1. WHAT'S THAT SMELL?QUEER TEMPORALITIES AND SUBCULTURAL LIVES -- 2. "THE GALAXY IS GAY: "EXAMINING THE NETWORKS OF LESBIAN PUNK ROCK SUBCULTURE -- 3. REDEFINING REALITIES THROUGH SELF-REPRESENTATIONAL PERFORMANCE -- 4. MY IDENTITY IS FLUID AS FUCK: TRANSGENDER ZINE WRITERS CONSTRUCTING THEMSELVES -- 5. ARTICULATING SISSY BOY QUEERNESS WITHIN AND AGAINST DISCOURSES OF TOLERANCE AND PRIDE

This essay explores notions of maternal desire within feminist psychoanalysis with an interest in challenging heteronormative frameworks of analysis. Providing close critical readings of texts by Jessica Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Kaja Silverman and Hortense Spillers, I trace conceptual openings through which to interpret maternal sexuality as a mobile process of intersubjectivity that is grounded in changing historical relations of experience. I argue that Spillers' approach transforms a critical process of reading desire away from the insularities and exclusions of conventional psychoanalytic knowledges towards a democratic and reflexive process of representation and analysis.

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people's affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences of young people as they actively use media in order to forge communities, play imaginatively, protest injustice, experiment with their identities, make media or explore friendships. Furthermore, it explores the relational and contextual dimensions of their everyday interactions. Against static knowledge and moral panics that abstract youth from the complex and changing worlds in which they grapple with digital media, this book hones in on the layered textures of youth experiences to consider how today's youth think and feel in subtle and unexpected ways.