Category: Same-Gender Love
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Why Love?
Here’s how I found out I harbored a very unpopular opinion. I was once asked to participate in a teaching workshop during graduate school. I was supposed to share my expertise after having taught many, many times. So there I was sitting with three (I think) other co-presenters talking to a group of graduate students…
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The Queer Parallax of Affect
Or, Feeling and Meaning Across Cultures. Young Royals broke my heart–and stitched it back up again. Many people seem to be healed, rehabilitated by their experience with Heated Rivalry. That happened to me with Young Royals. Because it’s a Swedish show, it wasn’t just the love story that got me but also the different way…
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Teen Angst Revisited
Some common experiences come to us later in life. Netflix’s Young Royals has inexplicably allowed me to remember and appreciate a kind of love I don’t have access to and never did. In a nutshell, the story centers around two 16-year-old boys, Wille and Simon, who attend the same posh boarding school, Hillerska. As a prince of…
Javier Jiménez Westerman, PhD 