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.
Articles
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.
