16 Result(s)
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‘Performing Queer Femininity and Performing It All Wrong’: The Development of the Performance Persona Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen
This chapter presents how a profound engagement with my own alternative and non-normative femininity has a determining role in the creation and development of performance persona Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen...
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Koinonia: Crafting Permission for Queer Deviance
Koinonia is a Greek word with multiple meanings, including intimacy, community, and communion. It is also the title of the elemental ritual play spaces Rev. Rowan Bombadil and the Terrific Team held on a quarterl...
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More Pleasure in My Leisure (or Practice Makes Pervert)
This chapter reflects on the writer’s years in the world of kink, the intersection of leisure and deviance, and what aging and menopause means about their membership in this exclusive and often underground gro...
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Introduction: Something Wicked This Way Comes
In this chapter we set out the conceptual landscape of the book. We explore the place studies of deviant leisure have had within the wider field of leisure studies and its somewhat lesser presence within event...
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Book
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Playing It Our Own Way: Trans Deviations of Game Design
Games, both digital and analog, like all mainstream popular culture, feature a significant lack of LGBTQIA+ inclusion and representation. This might lead to the presumption that games are limited in their scop...
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The Fall and Rise of Role-Playing Games: From Societal Pariah to Psychological Support
Role-playing games are currently enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world. However, as portrayed in the fourth season of Stranger Things, their benefits have not always been appreciated: the hobby c...
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There and Back Again: Trains to a Queer Emancipation
This chapter explores the juxtaposition between queer leisure, travel, and the journeys to get there. It uses an autoethnographic lens exploring the juxtaposition of queer identities and travel. The act of tra...
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Easter with the Family
Every Easter weekend for the past 21 years uninterrupted (until Covid), the SM Dyke community has gathered in Berlin for their annual conference. Four days of workshops and parties, cruising and socialising. A...
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The Deviant Leisure of Gym Bodies, Militarized Branding and Fascistic Creeps
This chapter explores the rapid acceleration and viral dissemination of masculine fitness culture as a deviant leisure activity (Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. The Free Press, 1963). We ...
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Subcutaneous Stories from the Deviant City: Chemsex Congregations, Urban Explorations, and Occult Inclinations in the Art of Manchester Penetrated
Manchester Penetrated (@mcrpenetrated) is a multi-disciplinary transgressive queer art construct created and curated by the dual personalities of Patrick Baxter/Dr. Sebastian Baxter. For a half decade they have c...
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… an Afterword: Reflections on a Deviant Journey Towards a Transgressive Compendium
In this short reflection we consider the journey we have made in putting the book together. Emerging from a casual conversation between long-standing friends, the work took on its own life. Through that journe...
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Creatures of the Night
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Card Confessions: Digital Forms of Deviance in the Mindsport Bridge
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been several public confessions to cheating from elite-level players in the online version of the card game bridge. Whilst the deviance of cheating is a per...
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Family History
