Narrative Plenitude in The Ultimatum: Queer Love Available to Purchase

Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (New York University Press, 2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (University of Texas Press, 2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (New York University Press, 2011). In 2019, she was awarded Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. She directs the Mellon-funded Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, where she is also chair of gender & sexuality studies, and Professor of gender & sexuality studies, English, and American studies & ethnicity.