The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (Hardcover, 1)

1. Introduction HISTORIES, RE-HISTORIES, ARCHIVES 2. Undoing Happiness with Pleasure: Rhetorics of Affect in The Ladder 3. Retroactivism and the Institutional Archive 4. Bisexual Invisibility, David Bowie, and the Prospects of Queer Memory 5. The Ready-Made Queerness of Greco-Roman Rhetoric 6. Printing a Queer Identity: Edward Carpenter, Iolaus, and the Affirmation of Same-Sex Desires in the Nineteenth Century 7. Re-Storying Trans* Zines 8. An Archive of Disposability: Gender and Sexuality in South Africa 9. Re-Historicizing the "Lacking South": Archiving Queer Memory and Sexual Visibilities in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia through the Invisible Histories Project 10. The Trans Rhetorical Practice of Archive Building METHODOLOGIES11. Wobbly Words and Transnational Queer Slippages 12. Queer Topoi: Writing "Like" Sedgwick 13. Methodologies Not Yet Known: The Queer Case for Relational Research 14. Blake Brockington’s Rhetorical Afterlife: Fugitive Black Trans* Data and Queer Kairotic Methodology 15. Histories in (Trans)lation: Xie Jianshun and the Potential and Perils of Trans Historiography 16. Subatomic Literacies and Queer Quantum Storytelling17. Between the Sheets: Gavin Arthur’s Sexual Circulation 18. Queer Ecovisual Rhetorics 19. Queering Spaces COMMUNITIES 20. "Let’s Get Some Family Chosen": Refugees, Homonationalism, and Queer Family Rhetoric 21. Queer Memes as Rhetorical Scenes 22. Womyn’s Words: Rhetorical Practices of the Lesbian Community in the Tampa Bay Area 23. Mountain Dirt(y) Queer Rhetorics: Making Appalachian Queerness Visible 24. Queer Rhetorics of Resistance in HIV Healthcare 25. "People Can’t Say I’m a Man, They Can’t Say I’m a Woman": Reality Expansion in the Kewpie Collection 26. Converging in a Room of Our Own: The Ladder, Autostraddle, and Queer Convergence in Online Communities IDENTITIES 27. Prescribe for Me, Doctor, for I Have Sex: Rhetorics of Empowerment, Queer Shame, and the Confessional in PrEP Prescribing 28. Making Nothing Out of Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence 29. The Queer Potential of Bisexual Rhetorics 30. Fuck (Gay) Racism: Queer Asian American Rhetorics of Abe Kim’s TikTok 31. Anthos, Bottoms, and Anal Sex in Troye Sivan’s "Bloom" 32. How Much Does It Take: Persuasion and the Stakes of Will in The Transformation 33. Irreversible Damage: Transmasculine Affectability and the White Family 34. Disidentification (as a Survival Strategy for Religious Trauma) 35. Resilient Closets, Addressivity, and Opening Pandora’s Box 36. Rhetoric of the Invisible (Or, How Bisexual People Demand to be Seen) PROVOCATIONS & INTERVENTIONS 37. Sexual Assaults, Queer Panics: Gemma Watts and Reynhard Sinaga 38. Anti-Normativity Under Duress: An Intersectional Intervention in Queer Rhetorics 39. Lettering me Queer: An Open Letter to Gurlesque 40. Chronicity Rhetorics as Queercrip Activism 41. Rhetorical Work: Genre Fluidity as a Queer Rhetorical Practice of Activists -- A Play/Chapter in Multiple Acts42. On Taking the Bottom’s Stance, or Not Your Typical Submissive 43."Soft Armor" for Ugly Bodies: The Radical Visibility of QueerCrip Fashion 44. Dear Queer Memoir Writers… 45. Queer Rhetorics as Intervention Methods: The Curious Case of Conversion Violence SPECULATIONS 46. The Fabulous Rhetorics of Queer Inhumanity: Speculating with Queer Inhuman Figures to Restory Queerphobic Histories 47. The Queer Babadook: Circulation of Queer Affects 48. Rhetorics of Gay Future and Queer Futurity: Strategies of Disruption 49. (Queer) Optimism Ain’t (Im)Possible 50. Between Queer and Digital: Toward an Understanding of the Rhetoric of Digital Queerdom 51. Queering the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: Bodies, Embodiment, and the Future 52. Cuir-ing Queer: Speculations on Latin American Notions of Queerness 53. Queer Hauntings, Queer Renewings 54. Pathological Desire, Perverse Erotics, and Paraphiliac Entelechies