“Everything Melts”: Anti-Normative Appliances in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door
The following is the transcript of a talk I had the privilege of giving to the members of the Contextual Studies Department at the...
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Doing Things with the Hoover: "Deep Clean" and Sex in the "All-Electric" Home
The wonderful queer waste/collage/craft artist-scholar Daniel Fountain sent me a link the other day to Deep Clean, a film short by David...
"Day and Night the MixMaster is a Delight": Erotic Appliances
Last week I gave a talk at the University of Roehampton on appliances, race, and domestic labour in the twentieth-century American home...
From "Electrical Servants" to #WAP: Appliances, Race, and the American Home
The following is the transcript of 'Electricity is the modern Lincoln, General Electric is the modern emancipator!': Electrical...