Erin J Rand
Biographic Data
| ID | 4587901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin J Rand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rand |
| SIGNATURE | RAND E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6806-4970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Affective weapons: Targeting trans youth through paternalistic rhetorics of care
The Rosa Parks of the trans bathroom debate”: Gavin Grimm and the racialization of transgender civil rights
Gavin Grimm, a white transgender boy from Virginia, successfully sued his school board in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board and helped secure the right for trans and gender nonconforming students to use public school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identities. His 2021 victory was the culmination of a long legal battle that began in 2014, when the Gloucester County School Board (GCSB) passed a resolution that segregated bathrooms …
PROTECTing the figure of innocence: Child pornography legislation and the queerness of childhood
In US v. Williams (2008), the Supreme Court upheld the PROTECT Act; this law's “pandering provision” prohibits the distribution and solicitation of child pornography, but does not distinguish between real child pornography and “virtual” child pornography (images that are digitally created or manipulated and do not depict a real child). Situating this case at the intersection of rhetorical studies of the law and queer studies, I read the Court's o…
The Right to Be Handsome: The Queer Sartorial Objects of “Masculine of Center” Fashion
In the past several years, a flurry of queer fashion blogs and websites, new brands, and small retailers have emerged that feature clothing and accessories described as “masculine of center.” Targeted toward butch women, trans men, tomboys, genderqueers, and others who desire masculine fashions for bodies not traditionally recognized as male, this new movement in style and design affirms nonconforming gender presentations that are typically exclu…
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Fear the Frill: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Uncertain Futurity of Feminist Judicial Dissent
Inspired by Robert Ivie's notion of democratic dissent as “limited nonconformity,” this essay examines the institutional grounding of judicial dissents, focusing specifically on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. I argue that the genre of judicial dissent, both of the law and in excess of the law, operates as a supplement to the judicial system that legitimates and reinforces its institutional structure even as in…
Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion
Review Article| March 01 2015 Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion Depression: A Public Feeling. By Ann Cvetkovich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012; pp. xi + 278. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist. By Barbara Tomlinson. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010; pp. viii + 279. $79.50 cloth; $30.95 paper.The Promise of Happiness. By Sara A…
Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
What One Voice Can Do”: Civic Pedagogy and Choric Collectivity at Camp Courage
Camp Courage exemplifies the indivisibility of rhetoric and performance in practices of civic education and the production of choric collectivity. Designed to mobilize grassroots support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality, this activist training session is based on Marshall Ganz's Camp Obama organizing model. By utilizing three specific techniques of choric communication—storytelling, chanting and call and response, and applause…
An Appetite for Activism: The Lesbian Avengers and the Queer Politics of Visibility
The Lesbian Avengers, an activist group of the early 1990s, utilized rhetorics of visibility to draw attention to lesbian issues, highlighting their gendered and sexualized bodies. Coinciding with the emergence of lesbian chic in popular culture, the Avengers complicated the bodily abstraction presumed in public discourse by flaunting a sexual excessiveness that could not be contained by a heteronormative economy of desire. Premised on displaceme…
Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect
An Inflammatory Fag and a Queer Form: Larry Kramer, Polemics, and Rhetorical Agency
Rhetorical agency is the capacity for words and actions to be intelligible and forceful, and to create effects through their formal and stylistic conventions. The polemical discourses of Larry Kramer, a controversial AIDS activist, demonstrate a concurrence of features that define the polemic as a rhetorical form and therefore enable agency: alienating expressions of emotion; non-contingent assertions of truth; presumptions of shared morality; an…
Revolutionary Pants: Identity, Play, and Collective Action
Repeated Remembrance: Commemorating the Aids Quilt and Resuscitating the Mourned Subject
This essay examines the twentieth anniversary of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt as a moment of doubled memorialization through which the nation's relationship to AIDS and homosexuality is renegotiated. Considering both the processes of national identity formation and the constitution of subjectivity and subject positions, I contend that a "mourned subject" position is produced by the discourses of the Quilt and is necessary to a specific n…
Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion
Review Article| March 01 2015 Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion Depression: A Public Feeling. By Ann Cvetkovich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012; pp. xi + 278. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist. By Barbara Tomlinson. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010; pp. viii + 279. $79.50 cloth; $30.95 paper.The Promise of Happiness. By Sara A…
An Appetite for Activism: The Lesbian Avengers and the Queer Politics of Visibility
The Lesbian Avengers, an activist group of the early 1990s, utilized rhetorics of visibility to draw attention to lesbian issues, highlighting their gendered and sexualized bodies. Coinciding with the emergence of lesbian chic in popular culture, the Avengers complicated the bodily abstraction presumed in public discourse by flaunting a sexual excessiveness that could not be contained by a heteronormative economy of desire. Premised on displaceme…
Repeated Remembrance: Commemorating the Aids Quilt and Resuscitating the Mourned Subject
This essay examines the twentieth anniversary of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt as a moment of doubled memorialization through which the nation's relationship to AIDS and homosexuality is renegotiated. Considering both the processes of national identity formation and the constitution of subjectivity and subject positions, I contend that a "mourned subject" position is produced by the discourses of the Quilt and is necessary to a specific n…
What One Voice Can Do”: Civic Pedagogy and Choric Collectivity at Camp Courage
Camp Courage exemplifies the indivisibility of rhetoric and performance in practices of civic education and the production of choric collectivity. Designed to mobilize grassroots support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality, this activist training session is based on Marshall Ganz's Camp Obama organizing model. By utilizing three specific techniques of choric communication—storytelling, chanting and call and response, and applause…
The Right to Be Handsome: The Queer Sartorial Objects of “Masculine of Center” Fashion
In the past several years, a flurry of queer fashion blogs and websites, new brands, and small retailers have emerged that feature clothing and accessories described as “masculine of center.” Targeted toward butch women, trans men, tomboys, genderqueers, and others who desire masculine fashions for bodies not traditionally recognized as male, this new movement in style and design affirms nonconforming gender presentations that are typically exclu…
Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect
Affective weapons: Targeting trans youth through paternalistic rhetorics of care
Fear the Frill: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Uncertain Futurity of Feminist Judicial Dissent
Inspired by Robert Ivie's notion of democratic dissent as “limited nonconformity,” this essay examines the institutional grounding of judicial dissents, focusing specifically on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. I argue that the genre of judicial dissent, both of the law and in excess of the law, operates as a supplement to the judicial system that legitimates and reinforces its institutional structure even as in…
An Inflammatory Fag and a Queer Form: Larry Kramer, Polemics, and Rhetorical Agency
Rhetorical agency is the capacity for words and actions to be intelligible and forceful, and to create effects through their formal and stylistic conventions. The polemical discourses of Larry Kramer, a controversial AIDS activist, demonstrate a concurrence of features that define the polemic as a rhetorical form and therefore enable agency: alienating expressions of emotion; non-contingent assertions of truth; presumptions of shared morality; an…
Revolutionary Pants: Identity, Play, and Collective Action
Repeated Remembrance: Commemorating the Aids Quilt and Resuscitating the Mourned Subject
This essay examines the twentieth anniversary of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt as a moment of doubled memorialization through which the nation's relationship to AIDS and homosexuality is renegotiated. Considering both the processes of national identity formation and the constitution of subjectivity and subject positions, I contend that a "mourned subject" position is produced by the discourses of the Quilt and is necessary to a specific n…
An Inflammatory Fag and a Queer Form: Larry Kramer, Polemics, and Rhetorical Agency
Rhetorical agency is the capacity for words and actions to be intelligible and forceful, and to create effects through their formal and stylistic conventions. The polemical discourses of Larry Kramer, a controversial AIDS activist, demonstrate a concurrence of features that define the polemic as a rhetorical form and therefore enable agency: alienating expressions of emotion; non-contingent assertions of truth; presumptions of shared morality; an…
Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect
What One Voice Can Do”: Civic Pedagogy and Choric Collectivity at Camp Courage
Camp Courage exemplifies the indivisibility of rhetoric and performance in practices of civic education and the production of choric collectivity. Designed to mobilize grassroots support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality, this activist training session is based on Marshall Ganz's Camp Obama organizing model. By utilizing three specific techniques of choric communication—storytelling, chanting and call and response, and applause…
An Appetite for Activism: The Lesbian Avengers and the Queer Politics of Visibility
The Lesbian Avengers, an activist group of the early 1990s, utilized rhetorics of visibility to draw attention to lesbian issues, highlighting their gendered and sexualized bodies. Coinciding with the emergence of lesbian chic in popular culture, the Avengers complicated the bodily abstraction presumed in public discourse by flaunting a sexual excessiveness that could not be contained by a heteronormative economy of desire. Premised on displaceme…
Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Fear the Frill: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Uncertain Futurity of Feminist Judicial Dissent
Inspired by Robert Ivie's notion of democratic dissent as “limited nonconformity,” this essay examines the institutional grounding of judicial dissents, focusing specifically on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. I argue that the genre of judicial dissent, both of the law and in excess of the law, operates as a supplement to the judicial system that legitimates and reinforces its institutional structure even as in…
Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion
Review Article| March 01 2015 Bad Feelings in Public: Rhetoric, Affect, and Emotion Depression: A Public Feeling. By Ann Cvetkovich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012; pp. xi + 278. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist. By Barbara Tomlinson. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010; pp. viii + 279. $79.50 cloth; $30.95 paper.The Promise of Happiness. By Sara A…
The Right to Be Handsome: The Queer Sartorial Objects of “Masculine of Center” Fashion
In the past several years, a flurry of queer fashion blogs and websites, new brands, and small retailers have emerged that feature clothing and accessories described as “masculine of center.” Targeted toward butch women, trans men, tomboys, genderqueers, and others who desire masculine fashions for bodies not traditionally recognized as male, this new movement in style and design affirms nonconforming gender presentations that are typically exclu…
PROTECTing the figure of innocence: Child pornography legislation and the queerness of childhood
In US v. Williams (2008), the Supreme Court upheld the PROTECT Act; this law's “pandering provision” prohibits the distribution and solicitation of child pornography, but does not distinguish between real child pornography and “virtual” child pornography (images that are digitally created or manipulated and do not depict a real child). Situating this case at the intersection of rhetorical studies of the law and queer studies, I read the Court's o…
The Rosa Parks of the trans bathroom debate”: Gavin Grimm and the racialization of transgender civil rights
Gavin Grimm, a white transgender boy from Virginia, successfully sued his school board in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board and helped secure the right for trans and gender nonconforming students to use public school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identities. His 2021 victory was the culmination of a long legal battle that began in 2014, when the Gloucester County School Board (GCSB) passed a resolution that segregated bathrooms …
Affective weapons: Targeting trans youth through paternalistic rhetorics of care
Sociology (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Queer (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Lesbian (4 works)