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...
