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Queer Theory
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Before there were lesbians, there were butches. The masculine woman prowls the film set as an emblem of social upheaval and as a marker of sexual disorder. She wears the wrong clothes, expresses aberrant desires, and if often associated with clear markers of a distinctly phallic power.
She may carry a gun, smoke a cigar, wear leather, ride a motorbike; she may swagger, strut, boast, flirt with younger and more obviously feminine women; she often goes by a male moniker: Frankie, George, Willy,
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― Female Masculinity
― Female Masculinity
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African "homosexualities" can never be comfortably slotted within identity politics carved out of Western "gay" and "lesbian" liberation struggles, and display queer and even post-queer characteristics.
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― Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Cultures
― Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Cultures
Each month, we choose one or two books written by transgender authors. The artistic lens of a tr…more
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Haaaaay Everyone! So, I'm starving for the company of other queers. I want to read books, and di…more
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The Books being read for the Lit and Wit Podcast. Follow along or catch up with what we've been …more
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A group open to all; the group will focus on "queer" theory and culture books (for example, Logi…more
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