Benny Lemaster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benny Lemaster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benny |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemaster |
| SIGNATURE | LEMASTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical performative pedagogical encounters, or “Let’s try that again. But first, let’s breathe”
Informed by Pineau’s (2002) critical performative pedagogy and Reverend James Lawson’s (1985) Civil Rights era nonviolent workshops, we introduce to the Communication Education readership a pedagog
Trans (gender) trouble
In this essay, we tease out and implicate what we term the queer (cissexist) theoretical imagination suggesting an incommensurability of sorts between that of queer theory and that of trans subjectivity. The incommensurability renders a reductive framing of transness, in cissexist terms, that privilege transgression (often of a superficial sort) of gender over basic trans, transgender, and transsexual survival and wellness. In the end, we encoura…
Queering communication studies
Genders and sexualities continue to remain underexplored in the field of communication studies and the academy in general. This essay examines possibilities for incorporating queer perspectives into communication studies. At the invitation of the Journal of Applied Communication Research editor, 9 communication scholars who use queer theory or queer perspectives in their own work responded to a series of questions addressing how queer theory and …
Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography
Unlearning cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference
In this essay, five authors use collaged relational autoethnography to explore the relational constitution of non-binary gender subjectivity, resulting in a performance of queer worldmaking. The larger force driving this project includes the unlearning of cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference. Drawing on the analytic power of “transing” communication, we use collaged relational autoethnography to explore non-binary subjectivity …
Monstrosity, performance, and race in contemporary culture
When I was young, I was warned of monstrous encounters. When I was young, I was told tales of monsters taking little kids, monsters touching neighbors, monsters breaking into homes, stealing, rapin
Discontents of Being and Becoming Fabulous on RuPaul's Drag U
In this essay, I argue that RuPaul's Drag U reinforces an apparent postfeminist/neoliberal worldview through a rhetoric of “narcissism as liberation,” which inevitably rearticulates classic tropes of patriarchal domination. In particular, I find that Drag U relies on (and promotes) individualization and competition as primary logics that purport to signal liberation in a neoliberal economy. By the end of each episode, contestants are presumed to …
Telling Multiracial Tales
What follows are experimental autoethnographic tales of ambiguous embodiment. The tales weave in and out of the text and work to articulate gender in unsuspecting spaces. Together, we reconsider gender through multiple locations at once. I offer an autoethnography of multiracial tales: a simultaneous telling of embodiment as it manifests in my multiracial body. Rather than privileging one "side" of the family over another, I experiment with a con…
Unlearning cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference
In this essay, five authors use collaged relational autoethnography to explore the relational constitution of non-binary gender subjectivity, resulting in a performance of queer worldmaking. The larger force driving this project includes the unlearning of cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference. Drawing on the analytic power of “transing” communication, we use collaged relational autoethnography to explore non-binary subjectivity …
Discontents of Being and Becoming Fabulous on RuPaul's Drag U
In this essay, I argue that RuPaul's Drag U reinforces an apparent postfeminist/neoliberal worldview through a rhetoric of “narcissism as liberation,” which inevitably rearticulates classic tropes of patriarchal domination. In particular, I find that Drag U relies on (and promotes) individualization and competition as primary logics that purport to signal liberation in a neoliberal economy. By the end of each episode, contestants are presumed to …
Trans (gender) trouble
In this essay, we tease out and implicate what we term the queer (cissexist) theoretical imagination suggesting an incommensurability of sorts between that of queer theory and that of trans subjectivity. The incommensurability renders a reductive framing of transness, in cissexist terms, that privilege transgression (often of a superficial sort) of gender over basic trans, transgender, and transsexual survival and wellness. In the end, we encoura…
Telling Multiracial Tales
What follows are experimental autoethnographic tales of ambiguous embodiment. The tales weave in and out of the text and work to articulate gender in unsuspecting spaces. Together, we reconsider gender through multiple locations at once. I offer an autoethnography of multiracial tales: a simultaneous telling of embodiment as it manifests in my multiracial body. Rather than privileging one "side" of the family over another, I experiment with a con…
Telling Multiracial Tales
What follows are experimental autoethnographic tales of ambiguous embodiment. The tales weave in and out of the text and work to articulate gender in unsuspecting spaces. Together, we reconsider gender through multiple locations at once. I offer an autoethnography of multiracial tales: a simultaneous telling of embodiment as it manifests in my multiracial body. Rather than privileging one "side" of the family over another, I experiment with a con…
Discontents of Being and Becoming Fabulous on RuPaul's Drag U
In this essay, I argue that RuPaul's Drag U reinforces an apparent postfeminist/neoliberal worldview through a rhetoric of “narcissism as liberation,” which inevitably rearticulates classic tropes of patriarchal domination. In particular, I find that Drag U relies on (and promotes) individualization and competition as primary logics that purport to signal liberation in a neoliberal economy. By the end of each episode, contestants are presumed to …
Monstrosity, performance, and race in contemporary culture
When I was young, I was warned of monstrous encounters. When I was young, I was told tales of monsters taking little kids, monsters touching neighbors, monsters breaking into homes, stealing, rapin
Unlearning cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference
In this essay, five authors use collaged relational autoethnography to explore the relational constitution of non-binary gender subjectivity, resulting in a performance of queer worldmaking. The larger force driving this project includes the unlearning of cisheteronormativity at the intersections of difference. Drawing on the analytic power of “transing” communication, we use collaged relational autoethnography to explore non-binary subjectivity …
Queering communication studies
Genders and sexualities continue to remain underexplored in the field of communication studies and the academy in general. This essay examines possibilities for incorporating queer perspectives into communication studies. At the invitation of the Journal of Applied Communication Research editor, 9 communication scholars who use queer theory or queer perspectives in their own work responded to a series of questions addressing how queer theory and …
Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography
Critical performative pedagogical encounters, or “Let’s try that again. But first, let’s breathe”
Informed by Pineau’s (2002) critical performative pedagogy and Reverend James Lawson’s (1985) Civil Rights era nonviolent workshops, we introduce to the Communication Education readership a pedagog
Trans (gender) trouble
In this essay, we tease out and implicate what we term the queer (cissexist) theoretical imagination suggesting an incommensurability of sorts between that of queer theory and that of trans subjectivity. The incommensurability renders a reductive framing of transness, in cissexist terms, that privilege transgression (often of a superficial sort) of gender over basic trans, transgender, and transsexual survival and wellness. In the end, we encoura…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Autoethnography (3 works)