Visions and Voices: “Radical Imagination: Queer Stories through Sci-Fi Storytelling” and “Drag Me to Hell: Demonic Drag Performances and Costume Contest”

 

“Radical Imagination: Queer Stories through Sci-Fi Storytelling”

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ARTICLES

Alexander, Phoenix. “Octavia E. Butler and Black Women’s Archives at the End of the World.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, July 2019, pp. 342–57. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/10.5621/sciefictstud.46.2.0342.

     ---  “Spectacles of Dystopia: Lauren Beukes and the Geopolitics of Digital Space.” Safundi (Nashville, Tenn.), vol. 16, no. 2, 2015, pp. 156–72, https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2015.1028181.

Kohnen, Melanie E. S. “‘Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility,’ by Alexis Lothian.” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 28, 2018, https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1601.

Nguyen, Josef. “Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation.” American Literature, vol. 94, no. 1, 2022, pp. 73–102, https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697001.

Song, Lin, and Chris K.K Tan. “The Final Frontier: Imagining Queer Futurity in Star Trek.” Continuum (Mount Lawley, W.A.) 34, no. 4 (2020): 577–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2020.1750564.

Stone, Katie. “Living a Science Fictional Life: The Creation of James Tiptree Jr.” Foundation (Dagenham), vol. 49, no. 136, 2020, pp. 5–18.

Wildman, Olivia. "Wish You Were Queer: New Directions for Queer Representation in Speculative Fiction." (2020).

Databases

Ebscohost LGBTQ+ Source

ProQuest GenderWatch

SAGE e-Reference

BOOKS

  Boskovich, Desirina, and Jeff VanderMeer. Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy. 1st ed. New York: ABRAMS, Inc. (Ignition), 2019.

 Anderson, Jill E., et al. Gender and environment in science fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Aoki, Ryka. Light from Uncommon Stars. First edition, Tor, 2021.*

Aoki, Ryka. Sometimes Too Hot the Eye of Heaven Shines. Radar Productions, 2010.*

Bayron, Kalynn, et al. All These Sunken Souls : A Black Horror Anthology. Edited by Circe Moskowitz, Amberjack Publishing, 2024.*

Boskovich, Desirina, and Jeff VanderMeer. Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy. 1st ed. New York: ABRAMS, Inc. (Ignition), 2019.

Dozois, Gardner R., et al. ‘She Saved Us from World War Three’ : Gardner Dozois Remembers James Tiptree, Jr. , Interview by Michael Swanwick, Temporary Culture, 2020. **

Kvåle, Lee. We Can't Be Straight in Space: Exploring the Intersection of Science Fiction, Comics, and Queer Readings in Descender. MS thesis. 2022.

Hampton, Gregory Jerome. Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler : Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/socal/detail.action?docID=662241.

Johnson, Micaiah. The Space between Worlds. First edition, Del Rey, 2020.*

        ----                   Those beyond the Wall. First edition, Del Rey, 2024.*

Keesey, Pam. Daughters of Darkness : Lesbian Vampire Stories. Cleis Press, 1993.

Lambert, Brent. A Necessary Chaos. Neon Hemlock Press, 2023.*

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. Carmilla. Project Gutenberg, 2003.

Lothian, Alexis. Feminist and Queer Science Fiction in America. The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction /. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781107280601.008.

Miller, Ben. SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A. : Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation. INVENTORY PR, 2024.

Phillips, Julie. James Tiptree, Jr. : The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 2006.

Russ, Joanna. The Female Man. Gollancz, 2010.

Whitehead, Joshua. Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020.

* Available from your local public library

** recommend requesting this through IDD:  https://libraries.usc.edu/interlibrary-loan-and-document-services

STREAMING MEDIA

https://www.youtube.com/@PST_ART

https://youtu.be/SIevN_3PZ8I

https://youtu.be/2bXyRoNKzJU

https://youtu.be/OCQKtExSzIY

https://www.brentclambert.com/podcast-1

WEBSITES

PST ART

https://pst.art/en/exhibitions/sci-fi-magick-queer-la

https://one.usc.edu/exhibition/sci-fi-magick-queer-la-sexual-science-and-imagi-nation

ONE Archives

https://one.usc.edu/

Fisher Museum of Art

https://fisher.usc.edu/

Website for Dr. Phoenix Alexander:

https://library.ucr.edu/people/phoenix-alexander

Website for Ryka Aoki:

https://rykaryka.com/

Website for Micaiah Johnson:

https://www.micaiahjohnson.com/

Website for Brent Lambert:

https://www.brentclambert.com/

 

“Drag Me to Hell: Demonic Drag Performances and Costume Contest”

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Drag Me to Hell Resources

Articles

Damshenas, Sam. “Exclusive: The Boulet Brothers on Dragula Season 4 and How ‘Queerness and Horror Go Hand in Hand.’” GAY TIMES, Gay Times, 25 Oct. 2021, web.archive.org/web/20221029004851/https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/drag/exclusive-the-boulet-brothers-on-dragula-season-4-and-how-queerness-and-horror-go-hand-in-hand/.

Goodman, Elyssa. “Blood, Guts, and Glamour: How ‘Dragula’ Made Drag Dangerous Again.” Them, 26 Aug. 2019, www.them.us/story/dragula-competition-show-season-three.

Holden, Steve. “Halloween: How the Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Blends Drag and Horror.” BBC News, BBC, 31 Oct. 2020, www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-54712624.

Sayers, William. “Drag and Drag Queen: Speculations on Origins.” ANQ (Lexington, Ky.), vol. 36, no. 3, 2023, pp. 309–10, https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.2003178.

Books

Heller, Meredith. Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending. 1st ed., Indiana University Press, 2020, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvtv93wm.

Stokoe, Kayte. Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo. 1st ed., Routledge, 2019, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429458446.

Underwood, Lisa. The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators. 1st ed., Routledge, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203057094.

Streaming

https://youtu.be/PpBu6NBr10I?si=5DWiMb08MO_JYlT-

https://youtu.be/1eaD-zCcOxM?si=pCPRdZ3nAFNW5zb8

https://youtu.be/2oT5wh3t_LQ?si=TtCF-KWbPbwSc1Ze

https://youtu.be/mInCwPZBjMY?si=CJwQeF4Z0g3RA1q_

Miss Toto’s Website:

https://themisstoto.com/

Instagram page for Specimen Scythe:

https://www.instagram.com/specimenscythe/

https://www.instagram.com/thedragqueendom/reel/C7KpKVhv0IP/

Instagram Page for Vander von Odd:

https://www.instagram.com/vandervonodd/?hl=en

Instagram Page for HoSo Terra Toma:

https://www.instagram.com/hosoterratoma/?hl=en