CSA>he Covid-19 pandemic: Re/making common knowledges and common spaces
Text by Tinashe Mawere Banter(ing) the Lockdown and gender scripts Gender scripts and gendered identities are always evident in the everyday. Butler (1988) argues that gendered meanings are made practical and visible through performances of the everyday. Rather than re/locating gender discourses as abstract and located in a world farfetched, it is important that we […]
Theorising in the thrall of a pandemic
by Pierre Brouard Is it possible to have theory in an epidemic? Paula Treichler asked in the early years of AIDS. In an essay, AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification, Treichler argued that “AIDS is not merely an invented label, provided to us by science and scientific naming practices, for a clear-cut […]
“Stay in the house and shag” and other bits of useless Covid-19 advice
Text by Pierre Brouard Just “stay in the house and shag” said UK comedian Guz Khan when asked how he was coping with Covid-19. That’s all very well I thought when I read the interview on the Guardian online, but what if you don’t really have a house that’s conducive to sex at any time […]