GENERAL WORKS AND MISCELLANEOUS
UNCLASSIFED / OUVRAGES GÉNÉRAUX ET DIVERS
Abou-Rihan, Fadi.
“Queer Sites: Tools, Terrains,
Theories.” Canadian Review of
Comparative
Literature 24(3) (Sept. 1997): 501-508.
Adelman, Shonagh.
“Desire in the
Politics of Representation.” Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art
Journal 3(3) (1993):
21-25.
Bailey, Buseje.
“I Don’t Have to Expose My
Genitalia.” Matriart:
A Canadian Feminist Art Journal
3(3) (1993): 16-20.
Ballantyne, Robert.
“Glamour, Pageantry and Knives: Gay Identity in File Megazine [i.e., Magazine].”
MA thesis,
(ca. 83 leaves)
Compiler has not determined place of publication of File.
Barclay,
Clare, and Carol, Elaine.
“Obscenity
Chill: Artists in a Post-Butler Era.”
Fuse Magazine 16(2) (Winter
1992/93): 18-28.
Blackbridge, Persimmon.
“In
Collaboration/En collaboration.” Muse
8(3) (1990): 57.
Blackbridge, Persimmon, and Gilhooly,
Sheila.
Still Sane. Photography by Kiku Hawkes. Vancouver:
Press Gang Publishers,
1985.
(101 p.; ISBN 0889740283)
Review: Resources
for Feminist Research 15(2) (July 1986): 4.
Bociurkiw, Marusya.
“Right Wing Arithmetic: Transgressive Speaking = Economic Silence.”
Fuse Magazine 20(2)
(Spring 1997): 81-84.
CBCA
index entry indicates this is reprint of a Fuse article from 1990.
“The Chill Factor:
Artists Fight against ‘Unofficial Censorship’.”
Parallelogramme
[
Article
also in French in same issue, pp. 17, 19+, under title:
“Le facteur d’intimidation: la lutte
des artistes contre la censure ‘non
officielle’.”
Cooley, Miriam.
“Audacious! And Courageous: The Videos and Performances of Shawna
Dempsey and Lorri Millan.” Canadian Art Teacher 5(2) (2006):
20-21.
Dawkins, Heather.
“Pedagogical
Issues in Art and Culture.” Collapse
3 (1997): 197-222.
Dempsey, Shawna, and Millan, Lorri.
[Winnipeg, Man.] In the Life: Portrait of a Modern
Sex-Deviant. [
the Dyke Productions, c1995.
(14 p., chiefly illustrations)
Other title:
Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke.
Ref.: AMICUS
catalogue record.
Fernandez, Sharon.
“More Than Just an Arts Festival: Communities, Resistance, and the Story of
Desh Pardesh.” Canadian Journal of Communication 31(1) (2006): 17-34.
Ref.: CBCA index, which notes: “Desh Pardesh was a Toronto-based
arts festival…[for] the voices of those who are most silenced inside
the South Asian community and society at large: gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and trans-gendered people….” Article presents story and impact
of the organization.
Fluid Exchanges .
SEE entry at Miller, James, ed., in this section.
Foley, Bartholomew Fergus.
“Significant Others: Gay Subcultural Histories and Practices.” MA thesis,
(226 p.)
“Attempts to explain what is missing from the work of cultural studies
and theory. The absence of analyses of gay cultural productions in cultural
theory is first identified,” consequences are suggested and a framework for
discussion is drafted – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Francis, Margot.
“The ‘
in Artistic Performance.” Canadian Woman Studies 20(2) (Summer 2000):
131 (6 pages)
Ref. Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Gottlieb, Amy.
“The Status of Different Women in the Arts.” Parallelogramme 20(3)
(Winter 1994/95): 18.
Article also in French in same issue, pp. 19, 21, under title: “Le statut
des femmes différentes dans les arts.”
Greyson, John.
Fig trees. Libretto, John Greyson; music, David Wall. Curated by Marnie
Fleming; catalogue edited by Paddy O’Brien; essay by Bongani Ndodana.
(201 p., accompanied by one compact disc; ISBN 1894707192)
“Catalogue for an exhibition held at Oakville Galleries at Centennial
Square and Oakville
Galleries in
2003-January 25, 2004” –p. 200 of catalogue, as referred to in AMICUS
catalogue record no. 28521805.
AMICUS descriptors include: AIDS (Disease) in art and Video art.
“Lesbian Solo Performance Artists Perform Gender Binds: De(Con)Structing
Patriarchal Classical Lines.” International Journal of Sexuality and
Gender Studies 5(2) (April 2000): 155-175.
Includes discussion of Shawna Dempsey’s work.
Holtz, Nairne.
“The Gong Show of the Oppressed.” Matrix 70 (Spring 2005): 5+ (2 pages)
Ref.: CPI.Q and CBCA indexes.
CPI.Q description: Critical essay.
CBCA descriptors applied to article: Performing arts;
Homosexuality; Personal narratives.
Item not seen.
Honeychurch, Kenneth G.
“Inside Out/Outside In: Sexual Diversity: A Comparative Case Study of Two
Post-Secondary Visual Art Students.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of
(200 p.)
Study of two gay male students “considers three primary questions: what
are the ways in which individual subjectivities and cultural practices of
white, gay male artists inter-relate; what is the impact of each artist’s
cultural productions on the broader culture…; and what are the
experiences” of the two in the programs they are enrolled in – abstract from
Canadian Research Index.
Kiss & Tell (Group of artists).
Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies. Vancouver: Press Gang
Publishers, 1994.
(112 p.; ISBN 0889740585)
Kiss & Tell is Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart.
Kudelka, James.
“The Goldberg Variations – Side 2: Adam & Eve & Steve.” Dance choreographed by
James Kudelka.
Presented by
Ballet
Paula Citron notes in Globe &
Mail [
a nerd is in love with a cool male dancer who dallies with a
girl and breaks his heart.
LeBel, Sabine.
“Camping Out with
the
Canadian Woman Studies 24(2-3) (Winter/Spring 2005): 182-185.
Lee, Robert Westley-George.
“AIDS, Art and Activism in
Andrews and Andy Fabo.” MA thesis,
(ca. 98 leaves)
Summary from AMICUS catalogue record gives, in part, “the work of
two Canadian artists is seen as a means of representing, self-identifying,
and affirming gay communities, thereby encouraging safer-sex practices.”
Leiss McKellar, Elisabeth.
“Out of Order: Florence Carlyle and the Challenge of Identity, 1864-1923.”
MA thesis,
(179 p.)
“This thesis intends to survey first the unique background of
Woodstock [
milieu; and finally Carlyle’s life as a painter and lesbian….As
a…practising lesbian, Florence Carlyle required the respectability that her
relationship to British man-of-letters Thomas Carlyle provided” – abstract
from Canadian Research Index.
Lockard, Ray Anne, and Waugh, Thomas, comps.
Queer Customs: Censorship on the
US-Canadian Border: A Selective
Bibliography. Montreal:
(13 p.)
MacDonald, Ingrid.
“A Shared Life.” Broadside: A Feminist Review 9(2) (Nov. 1987): 2.
Miller, James, ed.
Fluid Exchanges: Artists and Critics in the AIDS Crisis. Toronto: University of
<Toronto Press, 1992.
(402 p.; ISBN 0802058922; 0802068243)
Mills, Josephine M.
“Theoretical Play in a Field of Desire: A Road Map for Negotiating a Space of
Lesbian/Feminist Subjectivity, Complete with (1) Key to Explain Signposts;
(2) Glossary of Local Terms and Phrases; (3) Recommendations for the Best
Places to Dine; (4) Annotated Directions; and (5) Allowance for the
Unexpected.” MA thesis,
(186 p.)
“An attempt to produce a theoretical field which can support lesbian/
feminist visual art and…an example of this theory.” Works of four artists
– Shauna Beharry, Margot Butler, Shani Mootoo, and Susan Stewart – are
discussed – abstract from Canadian Research Index/UMI.
“Multi-Faceted Artist Uses Talents to Explore Gay Native Identity.”
Windspeaker 12(1) (March28/April 10, 1994): 11 (548 words).
Zachary Longboy.
Namaste, Viviane.
“Beyond Leisure Studies: A Labour History of Male to Female Transsexual and
Transvestite Artists in Atlantis 29(1) (2004): 4-11.
See also the Namaste’s monograph, C’était du spectacle!, below.
Namaste,
Viviane K.
C’était
du spectacle! : l’histoire des artistes
transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985.
Montréal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, c2005.
(266 p.; ISBNs 0773528512 and 077352908X)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 30549503.
Review by Line Chamberland, Canadian Historical Review 87(3) (2006):
524-526.
Review by Roxanne Martin, Revue
d’histoire de l’Amérique française
61(1) (2007) : 135-137.
“The New Degenerates.” <Toronto Star,
“Five of the most prominent gay members of Toronto’s arts community…
argue for the return of the concept of the gay artist as a person who
challenges socio-cultural norms through his (or her) sexual/creative
transgression” – from Richard Lippe, CineAction 45 (1998): 52+.
Packwood, Nicholas.
“Looking Hot: Gay Performances of Masculinity.” Border/Lines [Bethune
College,
Subject: Attila R. Lukacs; art criticism.
Pushing the Limits
SEE entry at Tremain, Shelley, ed., in this section.
Salah, Trish.
“What’s All the Yap? : Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross’s Performance of Activist
Pedagogy.” Canadian Theatre Review, no. 130 (Spring 2007): 64-71.
Mirha-Soleil Ross is, as described in an online Vegan Voice interview
published in Satya, Octoboer 2003, “many thing: transsexual videomaker,
performance artist, … advocate for queer rights and animal rights…,” who
grew up in Montreal (interview by Claudette Vaughan, titled “Shaking
Things Up: Queer Rights/ Animal Rights: The ‘Vegan Voice’ Interview
with Mirha-Soleil Ross,” at:
www.satyamag.com/oct03/ross.html
(viewed
Tremain, Shelley, ed.
Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture. Toronto: Women’s Press,
1996.
(246 p.; ISBN 0889612188)
Weinberg, Abbie.
“Identity Politics in Canadian Artwriting: C Magazine and Parachute 1983-1996.”
MA thesis, Concordia University, 1997.
(93 p.)
Weir, Scott A.
“Quintopolis.” M.Arch. thesis,
(202 p.)
“This thesis writes a posthumous manifesto of ‘Quintopolis’ (the virtual
construction of Sodom in the contemporary gay male ‘city’) through essay,
collage and fiction. It is an analysis of gay male identity as evidenced in
the gay ghetto, the gay press, and the circuit party, and positions these
with reference to the Sodom myth….The aim…is to rewrite the myth of
Sodom as a founding moment to a virtual nation” – ProQuest
Digital
Disserations abstract.
“What It Feels Like for a Girl,” with an essay by Sally McKay and a story by Sheila
Heti. “Sinbad in the Rented World,” with an essay by R.M. Vaughan and a
story by Derek McCormack. Curated by Philip Monk. Toronto:
University, c2004.
([60] p.; ISBN 0921972431)
Review of “Sinbad in the Rented World” by Sarah Milroy, “The Silly Side
of Subversion: An Exhibition Designed to Explore the ‘Queer Aesthetic in
<Toronto But As Applied to a Social Function’ Succeeds Mostly in Having
a Bit o’ Lite Fun.” Globe & Mail [
(933 words).
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 30664037, which applies
descriptors for women artists and gay artists. This is a catalogue of two
exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of York University, the first from Dec.
3, 2003 to
Degree of relevance to this list not known.
Wray, B. J.
“Choreographing Queer: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Lesbian Dance Clubs.”
In
Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and
Culture,
pp. 22-47. Edited by Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn. Banff, Alta.:
Banff Centre Press,
2000.
Paper from “Foothills and Footsteps” conference, January 1999,
Wright, Cynthia.
“Talking Cock: Lesbians and Aural Sex.” Fuse Magazine 17(4) (May/June 1994):
44-48.
Interview with Shonagh Adelman.