Lauran Whitworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauran Whitworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauran |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitworth |
| SIGNATURE | WHITWORTH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film and Media Studies & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against Conservation of the Norm
How do we voice legitimate concerns about pollution and toxic exposure without resorting to gender panic? This article analyzes several examples of trans ecologies that are alternatives to the eco-heteronormativity and purity logic found in much environmentalism. In Eli Clare's “Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Politics, and a Politics of Cure,” the author elucidates parallels and divergences between environmental restoration and health re…
Environmental Eros
In her 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," Audre Lorde avers, "The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information" (1984, p. 54). Part of our maligning of the erotic, according to Lorde, is our…
Goodbye Gauley Mountain, hello eco-camp
This article considers the effectiveness of queer environmental ethics in the Anthropocene, a word increasingly used to describe the anthropogenic destruction of ecosystems that marks our current geological era. Taking as my subject the contemporary ecosexuality movement popularised by performance artists Annie Sprinkle and her co-collaborator and partner Elizabeth Stephens, I explore the ethics behind ecosexuals' encounters with the natural envi…
Environmental Eros
In her 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," Audre Lorde avers, "The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information" (1984, p. 54). Part of our maligning of the erotic, according to Lorde, is our…
Goodbye Gauley Mountain, hello eco-camp
This article considers the effectiveness of queer environmental ethics in the Anthropocene, a word increasingly used to describe the anthropogenic destruction of ecosystems that marks our current geological era. Taking as my subject the contemporary ecosexuality movement popularised by performance artists Annie Sprinkle and her co-collaborator and partner Elizabeth Stephens, I explore the ethics behind ecosexuals' encounters with the natural envi…
Goodbye Gauley Mountain, hello eco-camp
This article considers the effectiveness of queer environmental ethics in the Anthropocene, a word increasingly used to describe the anthropogenic destruction of ecosystems that marks our current geological era. Taking as my subject the contemporary ecosexuality movement popularised by performance artists Annie Sprinkle and her co-collaborator and partner Elizabeth Stephens, I explore the ethics behind ecosexuals' encounters with the natural envi…
Against Conservation of the Norm
How do we voice legitimate concerns about pollution and toxic exposure without resorting to gender panic? This article analyzes several examples of trans ecologies that are alternatives to the eco-heteronormativity and purity logic found in much environmentalism. In Eli Clare's “Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Politics, and a Politics of Cure,” the author elucidates parallels and divergences between environmental restoration and health re…
Environmental Eros
In her 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," Audre Lorde avers, "The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information" (1984, p. 54). Part of our maligning of the erotic, according to Lorde, is our…
Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Anthropocene (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Carnivalesque (1 work)