Joshua Falek
Biographic Data
| ID | 172923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Falek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Falek |
| SIGNATURE | FALEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8552-9883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Figment made flesh
Between 2007 and 2011, Kevin Barnes, the white founding member and vocalist of indie group Of Montreal, performed as a Black trans alter-ego named Georgie Fruit. In 2020, Barnes came out as nonbinary and apologised for Fruit but acknowledged that playing Fruit helped them actualise their own gender. This article takes seriously the relationship between white nonbinary self-actualisation and an imagination of Black transness, questioning what yoki…
Introduction – Aporias
This special section provides snapshots of the field of cultural studies, querying theoretical lapses, overlaps, and contentions between and within competing texts. In these short pieces, emerging scholars enter contemporary or historic academic debates to complicate the canon without a desire for resolution
Care and Cure, Some Preliminary Notes
Passports, Prisons, and Every Space Between
In 2016 long-standing activism culminated in the implementation of Bill C-16, which added “gender and gender expression” to the protected classes of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Despite a commitment to consistency across federal policy, wide discrepancies occurred between the changes to the passport and those to the prison. On the one hand, Citizenship Canada announced that “people who do not identify as female (‘F’) or male (‘M’)” could change…
The loving queer gaze”
This article contends with queer joy as an epistemology to highlight an affective experience that grounds a basis for revising dominant approaches to sexual ethics. Drawing on findings from a mixed‐methods study with 100 2SLGBTQ+ young adults from Canada and the US, we argue that queer and trans people mobilize queer sexual joy as an epistemology of script breaking that led participants to explore freedom and play, enjoy novel forms of care and c…
Everything I Wanted Not to Be
Previous scholarship has interrogated how transsexual autobiographies recursively construct a gender-coherent subject through travel analogies. Orientalism has been one of the predominant frames through which these trans travel narratives have been interpreted. Through a close reading of Jan Morris's autobiography, Conundrum, this paper attends to the overwhelming anti-Blackness that scaffolds these voyages to and through the Orient. Exploring ho…
The Ruse of Love
On December 25, 2020, Netflix released Bridgerton, a Regency-era drama loosely based on Julia Quinn's romance novel series of the same name. Following the eponymous family as their eldest daughter Daphne enters her first social season, Bridgerton centers Daphne's quest to marry not for title, which the series depicts as convention, but rather love. The series is positioned within a speculative Regency period where not only has slavery been abolis…
Tricky Ticks and Vegan Quips
In this article, we explore the discourse around the Lone Star tick, predominately through the platform of Twitter, in order to highlight the way the tick is imagined as a potential tool for increasing veganism, as the Lone Star tick’s bite has been found to cause allergies to a carbohydrate found in red meat. In particular, the article questions why the notion of tick-as- vegan-technology is so widespread and easily called forward. In order to e…
That do impress me much
Midway through The right to maim, Women's and Gender Studies Professor Jasbir K. Puar, notes that ‘sensation racializes’ (p. 136), indirectly providing a summarizing snapshot of The biopolitics of
The loving queer gaze”
This article contends with queer joy as an epistemology to highlight an affective experience that grounds a basis for revising dominant approaches to sexual ethics. Drawing on findings from a mixed‐methods study with 100 2SLGBTQ+ young adults from Canada and the US, we argue that queer and trans people mobilize queer sexual joy as an epistemology of script breaking that led participants to explore freedom and play, enjoy novel forms of care and c…
Everything I Wanted Not to Be
Previous scholarship has interrogated how transsexual autobiographies recursively construct a gender-coherent subject through travel analogies. Orientalism has been one of the predominant frames through which these trans travel narratives have been interpreted. Through a close reading of Jan Morris's autobiography, Conundrum, this paper attends to the overwhelming anti-Blackness that scaffolds these voyages to and through the Orient. Exploring ho…
That do impress me much
Midway through The right to maim, Women's and Gender Studies Professor Jasbir K. Puar, notes that ‘sensation racializes’ (p. 136), indirectly providing a summarizing snapshot of The biopolitics of
Tricky Ticks and Vegan Quips
In this article, we explore the discourse around the Lone Star tick, predominately through the platform of Twitter, in order to highlight the way the tick is imagined as a potential tool for increasing veganism, as the Lone Star tick’s bite has been found to cause allergies to a carbohydrate found in red meat. In particular, the article questions why the notion of tick-as- vegan-technology is so widespread and easily called forward. In order to e…
The Ruse of Love
On December 25, 2020, Netflix released Bridgerton, a Regency-era drama loosely based on Julia Quinn's romance novel series of the same name. Following the eponymous family as their eldest daughter Daphne enters her first social season, Bridgerton centers Daphne's quest to marry not for title, which the series depicts as convention, but rather love. The series is positioned within a speculative Regency period where not only has slavery been abolis…
Introduction – Aporias
This special section provides snapshots of the field of cultural studies, querying theoretical lapses, overlaps, and contentions between and within competing texts. In these short pieces, emerging scholars enter contemporary or historic academic debates to complicate the canon without a desire for resolution
Care and Cure, Some Preliminary Notes
Passports, Prisons, and Every Space Between
In 2016 long-standing activism culminated in the implementation of Bill C-16, which added “gender and gender expression” to the protected classes of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Despite a commitment to consistency across federal policy, wide discrepancies occurred between the changes to the passport and those to the prison. On the one hand, Citizenship Canada announced that “people who do not identify as female (‘F’) or male (‘M’)” could change…
The loving queer gaze”
This article contends with queer joy as an epistemology to highlight an affective experience that grounds a basis for revising dominant approaches to sexual ethics. Drawing on findings from a mixed‐methods study with 100 2SLGBTQ+ young adults from Canada and the US, we argue that queer and trans people mobilize queer sexual joy as an epistemology of script breaking that led participants to explore freedom and play, enjoy novel forms of care and c…
Everything I Wanted Not to Be
Previous scholarship has interrogated how transsexual autobiographies recursively construct a gender-coherent subject through travel analogies. Orientalism has been one of the predominant frames through which these trans travel narratives have been interpreted. Through a close reading of Jan Morris's autobiography, Conundrum, this paper attends to the overwhelming anti-Blackness that scaffolds these voyages to and through the Orient. Exploring ho…
Figment made flesh
Between 2007 and 2011, Kevin Barnes, the white founding member and vocalist of indie group Of Montreal, performed as a Black trans alter-ego named Georgie Fruit. In 2020, Barnes came out as nonbinary and apologised for Fruit but acknowledged that playing Fruit helped them actualise their own gender. This article takes seriously the relationship between white nonbinary self-actualisation and an imagination of Black transness, questioning what yoki…
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Political science (2 works)