drupagliassotti @ October 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This seems to be my month to do new things. I didn’t plan it that way, but that’s how it’s turned out. (1) I got rid of a bunch of old furniture, tableware, and artwork that no longer felt like a good fit. Some of it has been replaced with new stuff; some, not. (2) [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to Jaime for sending this one to me! Yes, I believe I am the only professor in this university to have a signed photo of Spike pinned to my office corkboard, so my eyes can wander to it from my laptop whenever I pause…. From io9: “Convinced that the idea of Buffy’s vamp beaus, [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 19, 2009 # 5 Comments
Today my friend Jo called my attention to the new Sherlock Holmes trailer, in which Robert Downey Jr. plays Holmes and Jude Law plays Watson. We swiftly began discussing the slashability quotient of those two actors, which is rather higher than that of Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce, even if Rathbone & Bruce are the [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 14, 2009 # 3 Comments
One of the great things about co-editing the collection of BL-related essays Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys is that many scholars interested in the subject are emailing me to say hello and tell me about their own work. I never fail to learn something new from the exchanges! This morning I received an email from [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 13, 2009 # One Comment
Amazon is currently facing online protests against its delisting gay- and lesbian-themed “adult” books while retaining the listing of heterosexually themed “adult” books. This event, which was swiftly dubbed #amazonfail on Twitter yesterday, is leading to some interesting protests, from the standard petition to a movement to redefine and Google-bomb the term “Amazon Rank” over [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 13, 2009 # 5 Comments
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” — Yogi Berra Earlier this week I asked “Does steampunk have politics?” and argued that while the movement doesn’t seem to have expressed a clear political stance yet, the -punk in its name suggests that it must, in some way, be understood by its followers as opposing [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 11, 2009 # 4 Comments
The publication of Anima, by Italian manga team Dany & Dany, couldn’t help but get my attention — steampunk boys’ love? Yes, please. But Anima isn’t steampunk fiction in the most traditional sense, which, along with my own work on a Clockwork Heart sequel, has led me to think through what, exactly, determines whether something [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday, as I was (re)defining boys’ love, I spent a few moments wondering if I wanted to add the word “heterosexual” to my definition: a narrative about the romantic or erotic relationship between two or more male characters that has been created with the intention of appealing to a female audience. I quickly decided not [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I was glancing through the Yaoi entry on Wikipedia and felt dissatisfied by the way the term was defined there. I’d like to propose a slight change in usage. In Japan, the genre is called boys’ love, Bōizu Rabu, and I believe that term should be used in English, as well, to label the [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just wanted to say a quick “g’day” to everyone from Australia. This is a beautiful country! I’m currently in Wollongong at an internet cafe — the Japanese Transnational Fandoms workshop starts tomorrow, but today I’m just wandering around. I saw a fantastic performance of Hamlet last night in the Sydney Opera House. I bought same-day [...]