Introduction: Queer Bonds

An Introduction to Inflation-Linked Bonds

Inflation-linked bonds have gained notoriety in recent years. The global volume has increased tenfold in the past decade, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and France among the largest issuers of these securities. Inflation-linked bonds (commonly known as linkers) are a unique asset class in that it is one of the few that offers a nearly perfect (direct) hedge against inflation, while...

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises tha...

Queer Families

In December 2005, an appeals court in New York State ruled “that the state constitution does not require New York to treat gay couples the same as heterosexual couples in marriage licensing” (Keen 11). The ongoing gay marriage debate has set the stage for many lesbians, gays, and queers to ask what marriage equality really means for the gay movement. According to Michael Warner in the book The ...

' ~ Speaking in Queer Tongues

Presenting Queer Schur Superalgebras

Associated to the two types of finite dimensional simple superalgebras, there are the general linear Lie superalgebra and the queer Lie superalgebra. The universal enveloping algebras of these Lie superalgebras act on the tensor spaces of the natural representations and, thus, define certain finite dimensional quotients, the Schur superalgebras and the queer Schur superalgebra. In this paper, w...