Queer Theory


Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Epistemology of the Closet
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
The Queer Art of Failure
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Undoing Gender
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
Female Masculinity
Ben Appel
How will our country survive if its youngest generations are being indoctrinated to hate it? How will it survive if we're taught to hate ourselves? ...more
Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

The assumption that femininity is always structured by and performed for a male gaze fails to take seriously queer feminine desire. The radical feminist critiques of femininity also disregarded the fact that not all who are (seen as) feminine are women. Crucially, what is viewed as appropriately feminine is not only defined in relation to maleness or masculinity, but through numerous intersections of power including race, sexuality, ability, and social class. In other words, white, heterosexual, ...more
Manon Hedenborg White, Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research

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How to Be Gay A reading of David's new text, How to Be Gay, which evolved out of a course of the same title an…more
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Seattle Queer Book Club Haaaaay Everyone! So, I'm starving for the company of other queers. I want to read books, and di…more
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Lit and Wit Podcast 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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