Queering Russian Media and Culture

Galina Miazhevich is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University.

Introduction Galina Miazhevich 1. Queer first-person life writing in post-Soviet Russia: Between symbol and secret Brian James Baer 2. Queer readings of Soviet children’s films, 1931–1954 Alexandra Ihnatovich 3. Representations of female masculinity in Soviet history, or visibility of diversity through art practice Victoria Suvoroff 4. Transgression and the social body in Petr Pavlensky and Seroe Fioletovoe’s political performance art Alice E. M. Underwood 5. A quare story of the North Caucasian lesbian and trans women in the staging of The Voices Tatiana Klepikova 6. Russia as the West’s queer other: Gosha Rubchinskiy’s politics of fashion Maria Engström 7. Queer economics: Worlds, appearances, and the symbolic exchange Vlad Strukov 8. Lesbian love stories and online popular culture: The case of web series Saara Ratilainen 9. Queering #MeToo: Russian media discourse on same-sex sexual harassment in the context of a global anti-harassment movement Olga Andreevskikh Afterword: Making Russia queerer, or the strange paradox of President Putin’s incitement to discourse Dan Healey