#resources?

I learned this thing THIS year when @crescent-canine and @frenzied--flame were talking to me on discord and realized that whenever they used /something I simply didn't question and took it as silly little things.

Thus hey thinking that for the longest time I just saw them using slashes and went 'just dudes doing their things' no further questions.

Honestly that's kinda what it was.

in brazil we used to have the old msn/orkut version of it, ending phrases with -s -n -t -q

to indicate -s yes, -n no, -t maybe, -q haha silly.

We are very interested in learning more about willomancy and creating headmates.

If anyone has any resources about this (whether it be discord servers, blogs on here, videos, websites, tiktoks, and so on) we would love to see them!!! Feel free to message them or comment them under this post!!

Thank you so much!!

Hey! Delighted to 😊

Ethnographies are generally more accessible than most academic writing because they often use narratives as a way to present their arguments, so I hope y’all can give them a try if they sound interesting to you. 

Please note that this list is not at all exhaustive, and some of them i haven’t read personally as they were recommended by my great bud from grad school who, unlike a certain someone who shall not be named, actually kept on doing research with lgbt people and did not turn on a dime to do something wildly different from their initial research proposal 😅....

Ethnographies:

Dave, Naisargi (2012) Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Brainer, Amy (2019)  Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan. Rutgers University Press

Manalansan, Martin F. (2003). Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. Duke University Press.

Murray, David. (2012). Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia and Social Change in Barbados.

Howe, Cymene (2013)  Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua.  Duke University Press

Stout, Noelle (2014)  After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba. Duke University Press. 

Gaudio, R. (2009)  Allah made us: Sexual outlaws in an Islamic African city. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

Allen, Jafari S. (2011)  ¡Venceremos?:The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba.  Duke University Press

Journal articles based on ethnographic work:

Hall, Kira (2005) Intertextual Sexuality : Parodies of Class, Identity, and Desire in Liminal Delhi. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1): 125–144.

Choy, Christine Hiu Ying (2018) Smartphone Apps as Cosituated Closets: A Lesbian App, Public/private Spaces, Mobile Intimacy, and Collapsing Contexts. Mobile Media and Communication 6(1): 88–107. [online ethnography, app used in HK]

Random Others:

Suzuki, Michiko (2010) Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture.

Muñoz, José Esteban (2009)  Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York University Press.

Driskill, Qwo-Li, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen, eds. (2011) Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Intervention in Theory, Politics, and Literature. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press.

Millbank, Jenni (2009) From Discretion to Disbelief: Recent Trends in Refugee Determinations on the Basis of Sexual Orientation in Australia and the United Kingdom. The International Journal of Human Rights 13(2–3): 391–414.

Presented here as mostly a notice of “this exists” combined with “perhaps you would like to log in and make some edits.”  It is notable as being categorized as “edge play,” which will instill a false sense of late-1990s confidence or something related to the X-Games.   BDSM Wiki suggests that you not try this at home, so remember to go out in public when participating in edge play.

Hypnosis shares this Edge Play distinction with terms you may or may not recognize, including “BORK” which I was disappointed has nothing to do with failure to ascend to the United States Supreme Court.  Other “edge play” in this BDSM wiki include Knife Play, Needle Play, Scat, and Waterboarding.  The term Trigger is also under this banner and is wholly appropriate.

Additional edits seem to be necessary. Also pictures.