GLBT media-themed week [April 21-25, 2008]

Welcome to a special GLBT media-themed week from In Media Res. Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments. This week’s In Media Res line-up: Monday, April 21, 2008 – Ben Aslinger (University of Wisconsin, Madison) presents: “‘Jumping Your Bones Was Extremely Atypical For Me’: Brothers and Sisters, Queer Hollywood Labor, and Textual Possibilities in a Post-Network Era” Tuesday, April 22, 2008 – Kelly Kessler (Rutgers University) presents: “Where Does a Girl Have to Go to Find a Pool Table: Gender Performance, Leisure, and The L Word in Second Life” Wednesday, April 23, 2008 – Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University) presents: “Television’s New Publics and Privates: From Mobile Privatization to Trans-Spatial Publicity?” Thursday, April 24, 2008 – Sreya Mitra (University of Wisconsin, Madison) presents: “Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema” Friday, April 25, 2008 – Craig O. Stewart (Old Dominion University) presents: “I don’t think anyone has an obligation to do anything”: The pop politics of coming out”