by Arjun Dhanjal | Mar 21, 2018 | Academic, Conferences, Cultural Studies, Papers, Sexuality Studies
This paper was presented at the Future Communications conference at York University and Ryerson University in Toronto on December 8, 2017, and is the beginning of my academic interest in the phenomenon of the ‘unsolicited dick pic’. As a queer man who uses...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Apr 12, 2017 | Cultural Studies, Papers, Sexuality Studies
What’s in a bathroom? Indeed, who’s in a bathroom? Many politicians, legislators, and members of the general population will tell us that the referential signs on bathroom doors must match the referential signs for gender located in one’s pants. As a result of their...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Apr 5, 2017 | Cultural Studies, Papers, Sexuality Studies
Nuclear weapons are plagued by paradox. The most fundamental paradox of nuclear weapons—the paradox from which all others are derived—is that they complete the logic of maintaining national security through force while at the same time leaving the United States more...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Jan 26, 2017 | Papers, Sexuality Studies
What do we consider ‘sexy’? How much of this construction of sexiness is innate, and how much is impacted by external, sociocultural factors? In her 1984 article, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” Gayle Rubin identifies six...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Jan 17, 2017 | Abstracts, Academic, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies
What constitutes a body? Feminist, queer, and trans studies have placed notions of gender, sex, and the body under critical review (Salamon 2010, Prosser 1998, and Stryker 2006). The body is essential to the patriarchal conception of our selves, which plays out across...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Apr 21, 2016 | Cultural Studies, Papers
Where in the world is Palestine? A year ago, I probably wouldn’t have been able to locate it on a map or answer basic questions about the region’s politics or people. But I could probably tell you a little bit about Israel. Or, rather, I could tell you about the image...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Apr 11, 2016 | Cultural Studies, Papers
What happens when we lose ownership of the body? The mind? We think about the body and mind as inextricably linked, but what about when we shift that paradigm? What, then, happens when the mind and body become fundamentally disconnected from one another? Mamoru...
by Arjun Dhanjal | Feb 27, 2016 | Cultural Studies
In this film scene analysis, I want to talk specifically about the scene in Grave of the Fireflies at minute 16, where Seita and Setsuko are in the schoolyard after the air raids destroy their hometown and fatally injure their mother. The schoolyard in which the...
