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Articles within this issue include (partial list):

*Snatching an archive: Gay citation, queer belonging and the production of
pleasure in RuPaul’s Drag Race*

Authors: Michael Shetina
Page Start: 143

Since its 2009 debut, RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009–present) has been a site of
contact between the worlds of subcultural performance and media industries.
Of particular interest to critics has been its uneasy placement of queer
networks of belonging within the competitive, individualist space of a
reality competition series. Building upon recent scholarship on reality
television and affect, this article analyses the transfer of pleasures
among RuPaul, her queens and viewers by focusing on Snatch Game, a
recurring challenge in which competitors impersonate gay icons. It argues
that, through these performances of queer citation, Snatch Game makes a
case for the continuing importance of queer mediations of dominant culture
– often in ways that are at odds with the show’s neo-liberal ethos. In
doing so, Snatch Game documents not only a canon of gay icons but also the
networks of pleasure and belonging fabricated through their queer
circulation.

*Documenting queer(ed) punk histories: Instagram, archives and ephemerality*

Authors: Shoshana Rosenberg And Megan Sharp
Page Start: 159

Queer(ed) bodies in punk subculture problematize deeply embedded
heterosexual, cismale occupation of space and time. Traditional modes of
media and documentation aid in establishing normative perspectives of who
participates in punk, and how. Rather than reproducing dominant media
expectations, queer people express and explore their self(s) through
mediating fleeting-yet-concrete utopias that often leave only ephemeral
evidence, but are picked up from the margins of scenes and media by others
who know where to find them. This article examines tattooing and its
intersection with Instagram digitization as forms of memorialising
identity, not necessarily through the artwork of the tattoo, but rather
through the praxis and application of its subject. Through a reflexive
analysis of interviews with queer people who have been involved with punk,
as well as the authors’ autoethnographic reflections on their own
experiences as queers in punk scenes and on Instagram, this article
explores tattoo practice as a means of creating affective atmospheres and
embodying queer futurity. We find that tattoos act as silos for bodily and
digital memory, and that their utility for queer punx generates new forms
of meaning, mediation and production.

*In/appropriate, ir/retrievable: Dragging out Singapore’s queer televisual
archives*

Authors: Liew Kai Khiun And Natasha Ismail
Page Start: 175

The 2010–11 seasons of 90210 (2008–13), Degrassi (2010–15), Glee (2009–15)
and Pretty Little Liars (2010–17) represent homophobia as arising from
closeted teens, cisgender male ‘jocks’, racialized characters and
immigrants. Rather than locating homophobia and heteronormativity within
the social fabric and minds of all who have been steeped in American and
Canadian hegemonic beliefs, homophobic characters are framed as rare,
anachronistic and out-of-step with the seemingly post-homophobia ethos they
exist within. Drawing on media trade publications, I place these patterns
for representing homophobia in their market context, arguing that profit
motives encourage representations of gay teens and homophobia that suggest
homophobic beliefs are the domain of ‘others’, apart from the privileged
viewer of teen TV: affluent, educated, female, white and non-white
millennials aged 18–34. The target viewers are invited to see themselves as
innocent and enlightened in relation to homophobic others, while
prescribing a cure to homophobia that emphasizes individual change over
social change.

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