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Author Archives: Chase Dimock
Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me?: Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher
Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me? Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher By Chase Dimock We know Mae West as an actress, a sex symbol, a cultural icon, a comedienne, a master of the one … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Drag Queens, Gender Studies, GLBT, Mae West, Queer Studies
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Saint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the Occasion of Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday
Saint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the Occasion of Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday By Chase Dimock This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of British mathematician Alan Turing’s birth. In celebration of his enormous contributions to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, lgbt, Queer Studies, World War II
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From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich
From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich by Chase Dimock How do we account for and preserve a writer’s power after she dies? At the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, any researcher who wants to access … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, feminism, Marie Curie, Nuclear Power, Poetry, Queer Studies
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Robert McAlmon’s Psychoanalyzed Girl and the Popularization of Psychoanalysis in America
Freud (far left seated) and Jung (far right, seated) at Clark University in 1909 Robert McAlmon’s Psychoanalyzed Girl and the Popularization of Psychoanalysis in America by Chase Dimock (This article first appeared on The Qouch) Last fall, I wrote an … Continue reading
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Tagged expatriates, Paris, psychoanalysis, Robert McAlmon, Sigmund Freud
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Robert McAlmon: A Lost Voice of the Lost Generation
Robert McAlmon: A Lost Voice of the Lost Generation By Chase Dimock A writer, publisher, and a connoisseur of the Parisian nightlife, Robert McAlmon was a fixture of the Lost Generation’s expatriate community in Paris in the 20s and 30s. … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz Age, Lost Generation, Modernism, Paris, Poetry, Robert McAlmon
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Removed from Society: The Prison System and the Geography of Nowhere
Removed from Society: The Prison System and the Geography of Nowhere by Chase Dimock As the threat of Hurricane Irene loomed off the eastern coast last week, it was discovered mere hours before its arrival in New York that despite … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Central Valley, Corcoran, Prison Reform, Rikers Island
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Dispatch from West Hollywood: A Booklist on the Pre-History of Pride
June is GLBT Pride month, which means for most (including myself) festivals, parades, 18-dollar cosmopolitans, and picking glitter out of my hair until early August. At the West Hollywood Pride parade last weekend, the marching pageantry of floats and performers … Continue reading
The Surreal Sex of Beauty: Jean Cocteau and Man Ray’s “Le Numéro Barbette”
In 1923, the American acrobat Vander Clyde better known by his stage name “Barbette” made his theater debut in Paris at the famed Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère and captivated the French artistic community with his show. Yet, his … Continue reading
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Tagged French culture, Jacques Lacan, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Surrealism
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The Problem with Gay Capital
The Problem with Gay Capital by Chase Dimock It seems as though every week in the world of LGBT activism there is a new company that comes out as an enemy of the community. We immediately speak of boycotts, launch … Continue reading
I Was a Male Chat-bot: The Turing Test, Artificial Intelligence, and Gender Online
Three summers ago, I made ten dollars an hour plus commission portraying “Jessica”, an online shopping assistant program designed by InQ serving the WhiteFence.com website. On WhiteFence.com, a customer can purchase phone, cable, internet service, and other products specific to … Continue reading
