During the early years of Text and Performance Quarterly, scholars in performance studies challenged established norms regarding language, topics and approaches to the body in performance. This essay highlights some of the articles that spoke from a nexus of intimacy and the gumption to initiate change. They embraced a tensiveness between oppositional dynamics, exposed vulnerabilities, spoke affectionately and authentically and harnessed a deep understanding of the human body in performance.

The use of performance to initiate social change predates the theatres of Greece, where, by way of example, in Lysistrata, Aristophanes created a lead character who corrals her friends to withhold ...

Tim Miller is an artist, activist, and teacher who, through text and performance, creates awareness and initiates change on matters related to gay male culture, American patriotism, and civil liberties. The material from the interview has been edited and organized around four themes: marriage equality for gay men and lesbians in the United States, the evolution of his work over the past 35 years, relationships between performing and teaching, and a rhetoric of patriotismpast, present, and future.

News| October 01 2014 A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction Frederick C. Corey Frederick C. Corey Frederick C. Corey is vice provost for undergraduate education at Arizona State University. His teaching and research focus on narrative, performance, and communication, and he is currently editor of Text and Performance Quarterly. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2014) 1 (3): 142–145. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.1.3.0142 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Frederick C. Corey; A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 October 2014; 1 (3): 142–145. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.1.3.0142 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2014 Michigan State University2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrederick C. CoreyFrederick C. Corey is Vice Provost, Dean of University College, and Director of the School of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrederick C. CoreyFrederick C. Corey is Vice Provost, Dean of University College, and Director of the School of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrederick C. CoreyFrederick C. Corey is Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University, where he also serves as Associate Dean of University College and director of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies

Tim Miller has established himself as a critical voice in the development of gay male culture in the United States. For over twenty years, Miller has used performance as a way of addressing US policy, AIDS activism, community building, and the importance of private lives in public contexts. This essay is a tropological analysis across Miller's oeuvre. Themes analyzed include the clean, anal body; whiteness, maleness, and their (unnamed) privileges; suffering, pleasure, and self-making; roles of an audience-as-community; and rhetorics of justice.