In an updated version of “Gay, Queer, or Dimensional?: Modes of Reading Bisexuality in Torchwood”, Jenée Wilde focuses on the BBC science fiction series Torchwood as a culturally significant site for viewers internationally to encounter portrayals of bisexual desire. Wilde argues that Torchwood is a case study of how homosexual and queer methodological frameworks affect readings of bisexual desire in a cinematic medium—specifically, how gay critical readings may appropriate bisexual same-sex desire as meaningful only in terms of homosexuality while dismissing not-same-sex desire as irrelevant; and also how queer critical readings may frame certain aspects of bisexual desire as queer resistance and other aspects as normative. Moreover, Wilde illustrates how these frameworks constrain critics who struggle to articulate on-screen bisexuality as meaningful beyond critiques of stereotypes, tropes, and erasures. Wilde argues that bisexual theorising has made progress toward engaging bisexual epistemologies as resources for reshaping how we think about sexuality on screen and in life, positing sexuality as dimensional, or a mode of triangulating desire across several significant axes within a multidimensional framework. Wilde contends that reading Torchwood’s omnisexual protagonist, Captain Jack Harkness, through a dimensional lens can help us to reconfigure how we think about sexuality. Beyond Torchwood, Wilde demonstrates how a dimensional framework of interpretation may enable more nuanced readings of sexual multiplicity across film and television media.

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Gay, Queer, or Dimensional?: Modes of Reading Bisexuality on Torchwood

  • Jenée Wilde

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In an updated version of “Gay, Queer, or Dimensional?: Modes of Reading Bisexuality in Torchwood”, Jenée Wilde focuses on the BBC science fiction series Torchwood as a culturally significant site for viewers internationally to encounter portrayals of bisexual desire. Wilde argues that Torchwood is a case study of how homosexual and queer methodological frameworks affect readings of bisexual desire in a cinematic medium—specifically, how gay critical readings may appropriate bisexual same-sex desire as meaningful only in terms of homosexuality while dismissing not-same-sex desire as irrelevant; and also how queer critical readings may frame certain aspects of bisexual desire as queer resistance and other aspects as normative. Moreover, Wilde illustrates how these frameworks constrain critics who struggle to articulate on-screen bisexuality as meaningful beyond critiques of stereotypes, tropes, and erasures. Wilde argues that bisexual theorising has made progress toward engaging bisexual epistemologies as resources for reshaping how we think about sexuality on screen and in life, positing sexuality as dimensional, or a mode of triangulating desire across several significant axes within a multidimensional framework. Wilde contends that reading Torchwood’s omnisexual protagonist, Captain Jack Harkness, through a dimensional lens can help us to reconfigure how we think about sexuality. Beyond Torchwood, Wilde demonstrates how a dimensional framework of interpretation may enable more nuanced readings of sexual multiplicity across film and television media.