Publications
Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms
Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined 20th-century America from Alcatraz Island to Guantánamo Bay.
Combining science studies, popular culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, Blood Cultures examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century US cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate encounters.
Cathy Hannabach traces how these gendered, sexualized, and racialized blood practices were violently mobilized in the service of US empire, as well as creatively transformed by feminist, anticolonial, anticapitalist, and queer artists and activists.
Praise for Blood Cultures
"A stunning multi-disciplinary, transnational analysis of the role of blood in giving life to American modernity."
—Eric Smoodin, author of Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950
"Essential reading for transnational American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and science and technology studies."
— Julie Sze, author of Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
Articles
Best Podcasts for Interdisciplinary Academics
Whether you’re new to podcasts, or are a seasoned podcast listener, finding great podcasts can sometimes be challenging. Ideas on Fire has you covered. Here is our list of awesome podcasts for social justice-oriented interdisciplinary academics like yourself.
Trimming Down an Article or Chapter that is Too Long
Meeting word or page count requirements in scholarly writing can be difficult. But part of being a professional academic and a good writer is knowing how to edit. Here’s how you can trim down a piece of writing to make a stronger argument and a clearer text.
Bodies on Display: Queer Biopolitics in Popular Culture
An analysis of the queer biopolitics of Gunther von Hagens’s Bodyworlds exhibits and Loren Cameron’s transgender portrait photography.
Queering and Cripping the End of the World
The Walking Dead raises questions about post-apocalyptic racialization, kinship ties in the absence of social institutions, and diverse queer intimacies.
Securing Blood: PEPFAR and Neoliberal War
Despite their seemingly disparate realms of military force and medical relief, the War on Terror and PEPFAR both embody the logic of security.
Choreographing a Queer Ethics
Bill T. Jones’s 1989 Untitled and Keith Hennessy’s 2006 Sol Niger evidence shifts in racialized sexuality and empire from the 1980s to the War on Terror.
Technologies of Blood: Asylum, Medicine, and Biopolitics
The gender, racial, sexual, and national ideologies at play in the incarceration of HIV-positive Haitian refugees at the Guantánamo Naval Base from 1991 to 1993.
Photographic Traces and Cinematic Returns
Review of Garret Stewart’s book about the recent return to celluloid and the still and framed photographs that make up celluloid.
A Note from the Unicorns: Cultural Studies
Cultural studies programs face the undermining of public education and the devaluing and underfunding of the humanities and allied social sciences.
Prop 8 and the Limits of Marriage
It’s not just homophobia that enabled the recent passage of California’s Prop 8, which eliminates marital rights for same-sex couples.
Marriage Ruling Obscures Larger Discrimination Issue
Most media stories about the recent California marriage ruling the ruling have erased queer voices that are critical of extending rights only to a privileged few.