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A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993.
Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near
a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation.
The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an
extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an
anticolonial revolutionary. DS9 extended Star Trek’s tradition of
critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star
Trek’s previous taboos, including religion, money, eugenics, and
interpersonal conflict. DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that
was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary
U.S. racism, capitalism, imperialism, and heteropatriarchy. Thirty
years after its premiere, DS9 is beloved by critics and fans but
remains marginalized in scholarly studies of science fiction.
Drawing on cultural geography, Black studies, and feminist and
queer studies, A Different “Trek” is the first scholarly
monograph dedicated to a critical interpretation of DS9’s
allegorical world-building. If DS9 has been vindicated
aesthetically, this book argues that its prophetic, place-based
critiques of 1990s U.S. politics, which deepened the foundations of
many of our current crises, have been vindicated politically, to a
degree most scholars and even many fans have yet to fully
appreciate.
While religion and queerness often are viewed as disparate,
scholars in both fields of study share concerns and questions about
how the modern subject, with its attachments to institutions and
communities, is formed. This special issue of GLQ brings together
queer studies and political theology in order to explore the
relationship between the self and politics, theism, and queerness.
Going beyond previous work in queer political theology that has
focused primarily on Christianity, contributors to this issue
consider how queer sexualities appear in other theological
contexts, including articles on astrological, Blackpentecostal,
Thirunangai, hijra, and sarimbavy ways of life, recentering
marginalized and underrepresented minorities, beliefs, and
practices. Contributors Ashon Crawley, Seth Palmer, Vaibhav Saria,
David K. Seitz, Liza Tom, Ricky Varghese, Alexa Winstanley-Smith,
Fan Wu
Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the
Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large
predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught,
history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault
lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on
shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with
asylum-seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical,
coalition politics. A House of Prayer for All People maps
the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at this
church. For nearly three years, David K. Seitz regularly attended
services at MCCT. He paid special attention to how community and
citizenship are formed in a primarily queer Christian organization,
focusing on four contemporary struggles: debates on race and gender
in religious leadership, activism around police–minority
relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and
advocacy for asylum seekers. Engaging in debates in cultural
geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect
theory, A House of Prayer for All People stages innovative,
reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.
Building on queer theory’s rich history of “subjectless”
critique, Seitz calls for an “improper” queer citizenship—one
that refuses liberal identity politics or national territory as the
ethical horizon for sympathy, solidarity, rights, redistribution,
or intimacy. Improper queer citizenship, he suggests, depends not
only on “good politics” but also on people’s capacity for
empathy, integration, and repair.
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993.
Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near
a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation.
The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an
extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an
anticolonial revolutionary. DS9 extended Star Trek's tradition of
critical social commentary but did so by transgressing many of Star
Trek's previous taboos, including religion, money, eugenics, and
interpersonal conflict. DS9 imagined a twenty-fourth century that
was less a glitzy utopia than a critical mirror of contemporary
U.S. racism, capitalism, imperialism, and heteropatriarchy. Thirty
years after its premiere, DS9 is beloved by critics and fans but
remains marginalized in scholarly studies of science fiction.
Drawing on cultural geography, Black studies, and feminist and
queer studies, A Different "Trek" is the first scholarly monograph
dedicated to a critical interpretation of DS9's allegorical
world-building. If DS9 has been vindicated aesthetically, this book
argues that its prophetic, place-based critiques of 1990s U.S.
politics, which deepened the foundations of many of our current
crises, have been vindicated politically, to a degree most scholars
and even many fans have yet to fully appreciate.
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