Quotation: Stryker uses the monster as a figure of bodily disidentification and dysphoria, a figure for, as she writes, “the abject despair over what gender had done to me” (“My Words” 251). This association between monstrosity and an abiding negative affect can be found in Joy Ladin’s writing about “my primal sense of ugliness, my … [Read more…]

I replied in the affirmative. “Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. Good god! In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you … [Read more…]

“In Francis Coppola’s recent blockbuster, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the homosexual subtext present at least since the appearance of Sheridan Le Fanu’s lesbian lamia (Carmilla, 1872) has, like the red corpuscles that serve as the film’s leitmotif, risen to the surface, primarily as an AIDS awareness that transforms the disease of vampirism into a sadistic (and … [Read more…]