Mary Zaborskis
Biographic Data
| ID | 389180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Zaborskis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaborskis |
| SIGNATURE | ZABORSKIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6930-0218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visualizing Race at the Perkins School for the Blind
The article considers the construction of racialized citizenship in the Perkins School for the Blind in the nineteenth century through centering two cases of Black children that appear in Perkins’s archives. There is little scholarship on the history of Black students at Perkins, and materials on their experiences are scarce. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “critical fabulation,” the article speculates on how Black children were admitted …
Queer Childhoods
Explores how the institutional management of children's sexualities in boarding schools affected children's future social, political, and economic opportunities Tracing the US's investment in disciplining minoritarian sexualities since the late nineteenth century, Mary Zaborskis focuses on a ubiquitous but understudied figure: the queer child. Queer Childhoods examines the lived and literary experiences of children who attended reform schools, sc…
Queering Black Girlhood at the Virginia Industrial School
This essay argues that early twentieth-century reform schools for black girls in the United States educated children in heteronormativity to restrict their possibilities for entering the social order. Delinquency for black girls in the Progressive Era was bound up with excessive sexuality and perverse kinship. I examine institutional materials from the Virginia Industrial School, a reform school for black girls established in 1915, to show how th…
Eve Sedgwick's Queer Children
This essay looks at Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s contribution to the first issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. I argue that Sedgwick’s piece indexes generational anxieties that have come to characterize queer studies. These anxieties come from an attempt to protect a precarious field and secure it a future, and they can manifest as suspicion or concern over how later generations enter the field. I look elsewhere in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwic…
Queerness Built on Native Dispossession
Book Review| June 01 2016 Queerness Built on Native Dispossession Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance. Rifkin, Mark. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxii + 293 pp. Mary Zaborskis Mary Zaborskis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 490–492. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3479390 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mai…
Inventing the Pedophile in theJournal of Homosexuality
This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines one of the most controversial moments in the history of the journal, whereby a contributor was subject to governmental and popular rebuke for his scholarship on pederasty, pedophilia, and underage queer sexuality. In a chronological an…
Sexual Orphanings
This essay examines the production of Native queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools. I argue that the schools produced "sexual orphanings" in Native children, which was achieved through education and abuse that queered Native children's conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them a…
The material gene
Age Drag
Age Drag Mary Zaborskis (bio) In 2009, TLC debuted an instant—and instantly controversial—hit when it aired the reality television show Toddlers & Tiaras. The show, which has aired six seasons, totaling over one hundred episodes, features children across the country competing in local, regional, and national beauty pageants. An episode typically follows the child and her family (and perhaps a pageant coach or two) and depicts pageants and the pre…
Queering Black Girlhood at the Virginia Industrial School
This essay argues that early twentieth-century reform schools for black girls in the United States educated children in heteronormativity to restrict their possibilities for entering the social order. Delinquency for black girls in the Progressive Era was bound up with excessive sexuality and perverse kinship. I examine institutional materials from the Virginia Industrial School, a reform school for black girls established in 1915, to show how th…
Eve Sedgwick's Queer Children
This essay looks at Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s contribution to the first issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. I argue that Sedgwick’s piece indexes generational anxieties that have come to characterize queer studies. These anxieties come from an attempt to protect a precarious field and secure it a future, and they can manifest as suspicion or concern over how later generations enter the field. I look elsewhere in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwic…
Inventing the Pedophile in theJournal of Homosexuality
This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines one of the most controversial moments in the history of the journal, whereby a contributor was subject to governmental and popular rebuke for his scholarship on pederasty, pedophilia, and underage queer sexuality. In a chronological an…
Sexual Orphanings
This essay examines the production of Native queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools. I argue that the schools produced "sexual orphanings" in Native children, which was achieved through education and abuse that queered Native children's conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them a…
The material gene
Age Drag
Age Drag Mary Zaborskis (bio) In 2009, TLC debuted an instant—and instantly controversial—hit when it aired the reality television show Toddlers & Tiaras. The show, which has aired six seasons, totaling over one hundred episodes, features children across the country competing in local, regional, and national beauty pageants. An episode typically follows the child and her family (and perhaps a pageant coach or two) and depicts pageants and the pre…
Queerness Built on Native Dispossession
Book Review| June 01 2016 Queerness Built on Native Dispossession Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance. Rifkin, Mark. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxii + 293 pp. Mary Zaborskis Mary Zaborskis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 490–492. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3479390 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mai…
Inventing the Pedophile in theJournal of Homosexuality
This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines one of the most controversial moments in the history of the journal, whereby a contributor was subject to governmental and popular rebuke for his scholarship on pederasty, pedophilia, and underage queer sexuality. In a chronological an…
Sexual Orphanings
This essay examines the production of Native queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools. I argue that the schools produced "sexual orphanings" in Native children, which was achieved through education and abuse that queered Native children's conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them a…
Eve Sedgwick's Queer Children
This essay looks at Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s contribution to the first issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. I argue that Sedgwick’s piece indexes generational anxieties that have come to characterize queer studies. These anxieties come from an attempt to protect a precarious field and secure it a future, and they can manifest as suspicion or concern over how later generations enter the field. I look elsewhere in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwic…
Queering Black Girlhood at the Virginia Industrial School
This essay argues that early twentieth-century reform schools for black girls in the United States educated children in heteronormativity to restrict their possibilities for entering the social order. Delinquency for black girls in the Progressive Era was bound up with excessive sexuality and perverse kinship. I examine institutional materials from the Virginia Industrial School, a reform school for black girls established in 1915, to show how th…
Queer Childhoods
Explores how the institutional management of children's sexualities in boarding schools affected children's future social, political, and economic opportunities Tracing the US's investment in disciplining minoritarian sexualities since the late nineteenth century, Mary Zaborskis focuses on a ubiquitous but understudied figure: the queer child. Queer Childhoods examines the lived and literary experiences of children who attended reform schools, sc…
Visualizing Race at the Perkins School for the Blind
The article considers the construction of racialized citizenship in the Perkins School for the Blind in the nineteenth century through centering two cases of Black children that appear in Perkins’s archives. There is little scholarship on the history of Black students at Perkins, and materials on their experiences are scarce. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “critical fabulation,” the article speculates on how Black children were admitted …
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)