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 | 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...
