Who is (Still) Afraid of Queer: Homosexual and Transgender Strategies of Star Trek Cover Image

Ko se boji kvira još: homoseksualne i transrodne strategije Zvezdanih staza“
Who is (Still) Afraid of Queer: Homosexual and Transgender Strategies of Star Trek

Author(s): Rada Drezgić, Predrag Krstić
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: slashfiction; Star Trek; homosexuality; transgender; queering

Summary/Abstract: This text gives a critical account of various, often conflicting interpretations of slash fiction stories based on characters from popular TV show, The Star Trek, written (and read) by fans. What makes slash fiction, a subgenre offan fiction,specific is a homoeroticization of characters that in the original narratives are either explicitly or implicitly heterosexual. Whether such “homoerotic pairing” has any foundation in the original Star Treknarrative, remains an open question. Answers to this question vary greatly. An affirmative answer, however, begs a further question: whether these narratives are “homosexual representations” in a strict gay/lesbian sense? The authors propose that slashrepresents a non-hegemonic narrative which transgresses borders (of the medium, genre, gender, sexuality etc.) set up in the original narrative - queering, reexamining thus both sex and gender.

  • Issue Year: 24/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 196-211
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian