Author Carolyn D'Cruz

Carolyn D'Cruz

Carolyn D'Cruz is a recovering academic who lives and writes on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people in Naarm/Melbourne. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable (2008, 2016) and Democracy in Difference: Debating Key Terms in Gender, Sexuality, Race and Identity (2020). She is also co-editor with Mark Pendleton of After Homosexual: Legacies of Gay Liberation (2014).

“Justify My Love”: Revisiting Queer Aesthetics, Politics and Feminist “Sex Wars”

Carolyn D'Cruz

November 2025

My Formative Queers: Stories of the Music Videos that Made Us Queer

This article has been peer reviewed After famously being banned from MTV, Madonna's “Justify My Love” (Jean Baptiste Mondino, 1990) was released as a VHS tape single; this prompted a lesbian slumber watch pa...