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This essay delineates the contours of the United Arab Emirates's biopolitical national project through the lens of queerness as a site of productive failure, rupture, and danger—one with the potential to disrupt the heteronormative notions of lineage and futurity upon which this project relies. This article focuses on the Emirati "post-oil" generation: one that has borne witness to a landscape of excess, expatriate population growth, and values that possibly conflict with those of indigenous groups, directly tied to major regional oil booms. Drawing on rentier theory and political economy, this article examines the shift in the Emirati citizen-state relationship from straightforward economic exchange to one built on an economy of debt, inheritance, and narratives of reproduction and regeneration. Queerness, in this context, is a site of injury falling outside such narratives, operating outside identitarian frameworks and lineages of post-oil success(ion), against and beyond vertical lines of inheritance and regeneration.

Introduction. Becoming unbecoming: untimely mediations / E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen -- Queer aesthetics / Claire Colebrook -- Sedgwick's twisted temporalities, "or even just reading and writing" -- Jane Gallop -- Bareback time / Tim Dean -- No second chances / David Marriott -- Nostalgia for an age yet to come: Velvet Goldmine's queer archive / Dana Luciano -- Happy futures, perhaps / Sara Ahmed -- Close reading the present: Eudora Welty's queer politics / Lloyd Pratt -- "My spirit's posthumeity" and the sleeper's outflung hand: queer transmission in Absalom, absalom! / Kevin Ohi -- Stein un Zeit / E.L. McCallum -- Mestiza metaphysics / Mikko Tuhkanen -- Return from the future: James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography / Valerie Rohy -- Still here: choreography, temporality, AIDS / Steven Bruhm -- Keeping time with lesbians on ecstasy / Judith Halberstam -- Rhythm / Kathryn Bond Stockton

This review essay considers the "state of the field" of queer studies, as pondered by participants in the conference "Rethinking Sex." Held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 4–6, 2009, "Rethinking Sex" honored the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's generative essay "Thinking Sex." Participants demonstrated the expansive reach and range of queer studies as it has evolved in the twenty-five years since, attended to its limits, and argued for enlarging its frame to gain traction in our own vexed political moment.

If we are serious about producing knowledge of the past in all its complexity—that is, as something we think that we know already as well as pastness in all its radical strangeness—it is vital to grasp the epistemological consequences in conceptualizing practices in oppositional terms, a tendency pervasive among historians and queer specialists alike. Using the case of Alan Turing to unpick this oppositional logic reveals the paralyzing effects of polarization but also, and perhaps more urgently, the paramount importance in forging any number of pathways in creating queer narratives of pastness, including the unmaking of history. Accounting for the messiness and complexity of our movements through the labyrinth of history and memory calls for recognizing the boundaries of praxis as delineated and mutable, conflicting and intertwined.

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch alive today. So what is a queen and what does she do? In this introduction to royalty, readers learn how a person becomes a queen and how the role has changed over time. They also find out about queens who have changed the history of their countries and the world. Full-page photographs feature important royal figures from around the world, while fast facts supplement this fascinating first look at the world of royalty.

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. The first anthology to assemble the key artists' writings which have influenced and catalysed contemporary queer artistic practice.

Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines work by visual artists who emerged in a commodified, "postfeminist," and "postgay" world. Yet they do not fully accept the dissipation of political and critical power implied by the idea that various political and social battles have been won and are now consigned to the past. By privileging temporal gaps and narrative detours in their work, these artists suggest ways of putting the past into meaningful, transformative relation with the present. Such "queer asynchronies" provide opportunities for rethinking historical consciousness in erotic terms, thereby countering the methods of traditional and Marxist historiography. Central to Freeman's argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity; temporal drag, the visceral pull of the past on the supposedly revolutionary present; and erotohistoriography, the conscious use of the body as a channel for and means of understanding the past. Time Binds emphasizes the critique of temporality and history as crucial to queer politics.

AbstractThis article cautions against the strong impulse in the #MeToo movement to desexualize politics. Informed by queer theory, the article argues that the public desexualization imperative, represented by indignation toward President Donald Trump's pussy-grabbing antics and the concomitant, albeit justified, movement to expose decades of his sexual harassment of women, casts a shadow across queer citizens that chills sexual expression in democratic discourse and public life. The public desexualization imperative presents a double bind that creates, on one hand, public spaces that are less threatening and discriminatory to women and, on the other, public spaces that—from a queer white cisgender man's perspective, one whose only "marking" is his sexuality—erase queers' valued differences. The author uses personal narrative to describe and apply tools (conceptualized as fagchild tools) that help navigate tensions between women's equality movements and queer efforts to gain fuller, more open sexual citizenship. The article focuses, first, on softening the body politic (implicitly a white cisgender heterosexual male body) to provide sociopolitical space for sexual pluralism. Second, the article uses the sexualization of House Speaker Paul Ryan to argue that making space for queer sexualities may require accommodating the expression of nonqueer sexualities, including those that most of us find offensive.

The ever more frequent appearance of queer folk in advertisements may suggest a social recognition for queerness. Especially during the Pride months – international celebrations of queer life including protest, parades, and parties – queer ads fill western screens and billboards. This paper wants to explore the impact of queer visibility in advertising on the (re)construction of queer identities in consumer societies by bringing together Jean Baudrillard's theory of consumption, Robert Goldman's and Anne Cronin's analysis of advertisements and Rosemary Hennessy's findings about queerness in capitalisms. I will argue that the commodification of queers in western mainstream advertising, framed through the concept that consumption is closely tied to citizenship, is often mistaken as recognition. Furthermore, queerness is mystified in advertising through an attempt to maintain the fiction of a coherent queer identity that contributes to the construction of either an 'abnormal' queerness or aims to soothe derivations from the heterosexual norm. These findings will be put into perspective by a critical examination of an American advertising clip and reflection on the viewer's position.