Editorial Introduction: Beyond Sociodemographics
CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD
SPECIAL ISSUE: Queering Blackness
Introduction to the Special Issue
YANNICK M. BLEC and ANNE CREMIEUX (GUEST EDITORS)
The Queer Spaces of Black Dance Music
CLAUDE CHASTAGNER
Everybody Needs a Safe Place: An Interview with Damon Percy
CLAUDE CHASTAGNER
Whatever Liberation Looks Like, Dance Is One of the Tools: An Interview with Takiyah Nur Amin
CLAUDE CHASTAGNER
"You Bitches Wouldn't Get It": Queer Ludonarrativity in Lil Nas X's "Late To Da Party (F*CK BET)"
LAURON KEHRER
GLENN SMITH and MATHIEU PERROT
Harmony of Self: L'Marco's Ode to Awareness
GLENN SMITH
Young M.A: Queering Blackness in the Classroom
ÉMILIE SOUYRI
"I Never Hesitated": A Quare Analysis of Rap Non-Binary Identity in Lil Uzi Vert's 032c Interview
MELVIN L. WILLIAMS and CHRISTIN SMITH
The Marketing of a Voguing Icon: How Leiomy Maldonado Became the Face of Black Opal’s 2021 Campaign
FRÉDÉRIC HERBIN
Quare Representations In Absentia: Non-Binary Black Characterization(s) in Video Games
LAURA GOUDET
Queering Lafayette: Adapting and Subverting the Black Sissy Trope in True Blood
ELIZABETH MULLEN
ARTICLES: Regular Submissions
The Commodification of Bodies in Women’s Rap
CHLOE CASSIDY
“I, Baby Raccoon”: Jeff VanderMeer and Performed Identity Networks
AUBREY DICKENS
FEI JIA
Cryptids and Historical Memory: The Asserted Antecedents of the Michigan Dogman
DANIEL McMAHON
CARLOS TKACZ
ARTICLES: Student Submissions
RACHEL HARLESS
Kenobi: Star Wars Fan Films and How Embodiment Influences Fan Perspectives on Canon
Danielle Hovakimian
Scholarship Bites
Humor-Driven Test Prep: Helping Students Study Via In-Class Game Shows
MATTHEW T. MCKEAGUE
REVIEWS
The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction
CHRISTOPHER J. OLSON