Items by Johanna Rothe

Black Looks

• To go away

  Posted: March 22, 2010, 5:50 pm by Johanna Rothe

  One Santa Cruz, California. February 2008. When I get off the bus at the Metro Center and wait to cross the street, I notice two people. A woman is telling a man to leave her alone— but telling him to leave her alone does not make him leave her alone. My light turns green. I keep standing there until it turns red [...]

• Out of Place, Out of Print On the censorship of the first queerness/raciality collection in Britain

  Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:47 pm by Johanna Rothe

  In their article “Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror’” (2008),   Jin Haritaworn, Tamsila Tauqir and Esra Erdem critique white gay discourses in Germany and Britain that trade in Islamophobic constructions of a gay-friendly, sexually liberated ‘West’ and a homophobic, sexually oppressive ‘Islam’ as the West’s [...]

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Fish cakes

Alas a fish cake.

Yet more fish cakes

Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

The end of the fish cakes