Julian Honkasalo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3081418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Honkasalo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Honkasalo |
| SIGNATURE | HONKASALO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7052-8861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic
This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, poetic use of the erotic as well as José Muñoz’s aesthetic and utopian notion of queer future. I argue that Lorde and Muñoz provide important tools for theorizing the erotic as a politically subversive and utopian form of care in the contemporary politi…
Revitalizing feminist politics of solidarity in the age of anti-genderism
When boys willnotbe boys
Drawing from Michel Foucault’s theorization of disciplinary power and biopolitics, this paper advances and reconstructs earlier scholarly literature on American eugenics through an examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century penological and psychiatric techniques that contributed to the birth of a discourse on gender nonconformity as psychopathology. In this paper, I ask: how do certain forms of embodiment, dress and expression come to be in…
Hannah Arendt as an ally for queer politics
Feminist scholars interested in the thought of Hannah Arendt have often criticized her for excluding the questions of gender and sexuality from her political philosophy. Early readers, such as Adrienne Rich, Mary O’Brien, Hanna Pitkin and Wendy Brown present Arendt as a ‘masculine thinker’, a theorist who dismisses fundamental aspects of the human condition, such as embodiment, emotions and biological reproduction. In striking contrast, theorists…
When boys willnotbe boys
Drawing from Michel Foucault’s theorization of disciplinary power and biopolitics, this paper advances and reconstructs earlier scholarly literature on American eugenics through an examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century penological and psychiatric techniques that contributed to the birth of a discourse on gender nonconformity as psychopathology. In this paper, I ask: how do certain forms of embodiment, dress and expression come to be in…
Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic
This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, poetic use of the erotic as well as José Muñoz’s aesthetic and utopian notion of queer future. I argue that Lorde and Muñoz provide important tools for theorizing the erotic as a politically subversive and utopian form of care in the contemporary politi…
Revitalizing feminist politics of solidarity in the age of anti-genderism
Hannah Arendt as an ally for queer politics
Feminist scholars interested in the thought of Hannah Arendt have often criticized her for excluding the questions of gender and sexuality from her political philosophy. Early readers, such as Adrienne Rich, Mary O’Brien, Hanna Pitkin and Wendy Brown present Arendt as a ‘masculine thinker’, a theorist who dismisses fundamental aspects of the human condition, such as embodiment, emotions and biological reproduction. In striking contrast, theorists…
Hannah Arendt as an ally for queer politics
Feminist scholars interested in the thought of Hannah Arendt have often criticized her for excluding the questions of gender and sexuality from her political philosophy. Early readers, such as Adrienne Rich, Mary O’Brien, Hanna Pitkin and Wendy Brown present Arendt as a ‘masculine thinker’, a theorist who dismisses fundamental aspects of the human condition, such as embodiment, emotions and biological reproduction. In striking contrast, theorists…
When boys willnotbe boys
Drawing from Michel Foucault’s theorization of disciplinary power and biopolitics, this paper advances and reconstructs earlier scholarly literature on American eugenics through an examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century penological and psychiatric techniques that contributed to the birth of a discourse on gender nonconformity as psychopathology. In this paper, I ask: how do certain forms of embodiment, dress and expression come to be in…
Revitalizing feminist politics of solidarity in the age of anti-genderism
Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic
This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, poetic use of the erotic as well as José Muñoz’s aesthetic and utopian notion of queer future. I argue that Lorde and Muñoz provide important tools for theorizing the erotic as a politically subversive and utopian form of care in the contemporary politi…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)