The Intersection of Queer Theory and Empirical Methods: Visions for CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 301-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Nadal
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Lgbtq Studies

Queer Youth and Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Lgbtq Studies ◽  
Intellectual Traditions

Discussions surrounding the rights, desires, and subjectivities of queer youth in education have a history marked by both controversy and optimism. Many researchers, practitioners, and teachers who critically examine the role of education in the lives of queer youth insist that the youth themselves should be involved in setting the terms of debate surrounding if and how they should be included in sites of education. This is important because the ways in which their needs and subjectivities are conceptualized have a direct impact on the futures that queer youth imagine for themselves and for others. For example, the furious and impassioned debates about sex education in schooling are also to do with the amount of empathy we have for queer youth. Thus, sex education is a frequent point of analysis in literature on queer youth in education. Literature on queer youth and education also helpfully demonstrates how racialization, gender, neoliberalism, and settler-colonialism permeate discourses of queer inclusion and constitute the conditions of both acceptance and oppression for queer youth. While queer studies has at times sharpened perceptions of queer youth’s subjective and systemic experiences in education, it cannot be collapsed into a unified theory of sexuality because it too is ripe with debate, variation, and contradiction. As many scholars and intellectual traditions make clear, the global and transnational dimensions of gender and sexuality cannot be subsumed into a unified taxonomy of desire or subject formation. More ethical interactions between teachers, peers, and queer youth are needed because our theories of queer desire and the discourses we attach to them evince material realities for queer youth. Despite the often prevailing insistence that queer youth belong in educational institutions, homophobia and heteronormativity continue to make inclusion a complicated landscape. In recognition of these dynamics, literature in the field of educational studies also insists that some queer youth find hope in education. Withdrawing advocacy and representation for queer, trans, and nonbinary youth in educational settings becomes dangerous when it creates a terrain for isolation and shame. Importantly, queer theory and LGBTQ studies have conceptualized the needs of queer youth in ways that emphasize education as a space wrought with emotion, power, and desire. Early theorizing of non-normative sexual desire continues to set the stage for contemporary discussions of schools as spaces of power and repression. That is, histories of activism, knowledge, and policy construction have made the present conditions of both inclusion and exclusion for queer youth. Contemporary debates about belonging and marginalization in schools are made from the residues and endurance of earlier formations of gender and race.

What's queer about Internet studies now?

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Jack Gieseking ◽  
Jessa Lingel ◽  
Daniel Cockayne
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Lgbtq Studies ◽  
Reading List ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Spaces

Queerness owes much to the past, a past we can see playing out again and again in physical and online spaces. More than seeing the Internet as a tool for LGBTQ activism alone, our collective dialogue asks: what’s queer about the Internet? The interventions by queer theory and LGBTQ studies into Internet studies begets a new turn of phrase and a renewed queer studies in a terrain that queers have always made their own, i.e., online: Queer Internet Studies (QIS). The proceedings for the Queer Internet Studies Symposium 2 (QIS2) in Philadelphia in 2017 and the papers inspired from that gathering make up the heart of this collection. We also include a recommended reading list of sources that have inspired us in QIS. We planned the symposium and special issue without a prediction of what participants would say or do, and we were (and remain) shocked and encouraged by the excitement for making and sharing a space with, for, and about queerness. In its practice, QIS is a radical, fluid practice and project that remains porous still, even in the naming that we grant it here.

Queer-Sensible Designing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silas DENZ ◽  
Wouter EGGINK
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Gender Scripts ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Design Style

Conventional design practices regard gender as a given precondition defined by femininity and masculinity. To shift these strategies to include non-heteronormative or queer users, queer theory served as a source of inspiration as well as user sensitive design techniques. As a result, a co-design workshop was developed and executed. Participants supported claims that gender scripts in designed artefacts uphold gender norms. The practice did not specify a definition of a queer design style. However, the co-design practice opened up the design process to non-normative gender scripts by unmasking binary gender dichotomies in industrial design.

Deleuze and Queer Theory

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi Nigianni ◽  
Merl Storr
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory

Some Things are Worth Losing to Become./? Trans Masculinity|Queer Autoethnography|Where Theory and the Body Collide

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Matt Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
The Body ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Family Home

This essay seeks to interrogate what it means to become a legible man as someone who held space as a multiplicity of identities before realising and negotiating my trans manhood. It raises the question of how we as trans people account for the shifting nature of our subjectivity, our embodiment and, indeed, our bodies. This essay locates this dialogue on the site of my body where I have placed many tattoos, which both speak to and inform my understanding of myself as a trans man in Ireland. Queer theory functions as a focal tool within this essay as I question family, home, transition, sexuality, and temporality through a queer autoethnographic reading of the tattoos on my body. This essay pays homage to the intersecting traditions within queer theory and autoethnography. It honours the necessity for the indefinable, for alternative knowledge production and representations, for the space we need in order to become, to allow for the uncertainty of our becoming.

(Un)Disciplining the Graduate Student, and a Queer Otherwise

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-146
Author(s):  
Sean Charles Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Graduate Student

This essay reflects on the walkout during the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel. I draw upon queer theory to discuss the impacts of disciplinary norms and whiteness in organizational communication.

Cut, Snap

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-136
Author(s):  
Dominic Pecoraro
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Interpersonal Interactions ◽  
Queer Identity

Inspired by critical interpersonal communication scholarship and queer autoethnography, this piece depicts interpersonal interactions mute or challenge queer identity. I explore the nexus of interpersonal communication theory, identity work, and queer theory to contextualize coming out and coming into sexual minority status. This piece explores narratives in which the legitimacy of queerness is unaccepted, unassured, and undermined.

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