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Something Mighty Queer: queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other mythopoeic work
February 17-18, 2024

Conference chairs: Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, and Leah Hagan

Proceedings series editor: Janet Brennan Croft

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Something Mighty Queer
— Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, and Leah Hagan

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Cruising Faërie: Further Notes on Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature
— Taylor Driggers

Myth, Murder, and Mayhem: Discerning the ‘Other’ in Our Flag Means Death
— Sara Brown

Gazing Queerly: The Art and Text Around Saruman’s Non-normativity
— Christopher Vaccaro

The Mariner (and His Wife): Rethinking Aldarion’s (A)Sexuality
— Rory M. Queripel

Sauron, Seduction, and the Queering Mechanism of the Ring
— Mercury Natis

Towards an Ethos of Discussing In-Corporeal Gender in Fantasy Literature: Part I – A ‘Feminine’ Eldil and a ‘Masculine’ Vala
— Luke Shelton

Trans Inequity, Intersectional Ritual, and Jewish Tikkun Olam (Healing of the World)
— Valerie Estelle Frankel

Reading, Rending, and Queering the Web of Story with the Lenses of “Con-creation” and Process Theology
— Cameron Bourquein and Nick Polk

More to The Hobbit Than Meets the Eye: Deconstructing Femininity in Bilbo Baggins
— Pieter Conradie

Queen’s Pride: A Queer Reading of Star Wars Character Padmé Amidala
— Madeleine Loewen

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