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5 Questions to Soledad Cutuli

5 Questions to Soledad Cutuli

Soledad Cutuli is an Argentine anthropologist and queer feminist scholar whose work is grounded in political anthropology and critical studies of gender and sexualities. She is currently a “César Nombela” / Talento CAM researcher...

Assembly-Line Princesses: Ethnic-themed Photography in Tibet

by Zixuan Zhang_ IntroductionIn the winter of 2024, I spent six weeks conducting fieldwork in ethnic-themed photography studios in Lhasa. Across China’s tourist cities, young women dress in “ethnic” costumes, sit for makeup sessions,...

5 Questions to Svati P. Shah

Our new format „5 Questions to“ aims at promoting the work of exciting scholars in the field of Queer Anthropology and related disciplines. By creating this format we wish to establish an archive of catchy profiles,...

Glitching Bodies in Queer (Digital) Anthropology

by Luise Erbentraut _ It is now almost two years since I began the fieldwork for my Master’s thesis on Virtual YouTubers, so called VTubers and their self-representation. In conclusion of the thesis, I...

Intimations of Dissent: Sexuality’s History

Lecture by Prof. Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz) during the Workshop “Abundance: Queer Worldings in Anthropology” organized by the Working Group “Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology” on March 8 2023 at Schwules Museum...

On Grindr’s Plural Becoming

by Maximiliano Marentes _ Grindrs in plural? In January 2021, a user I follow on Twitter posted a funny tweet, referring to his new account on Telegram. He stated that all the guys sharing...

Trans et Mortem: When Altered Bodies Return to Death

by Claude Kempen_ our father, who art in heaven, During the Popkultur Festival in Berlin I accidentally found myself at a queer midnight mass. To my surprise, this event healed some unknown wounds; wounds...