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Roughgarden’s wonderful study of evolutionary diversity, Evolution’s Rainbow (2004), explains that most biologists observe “nature” through a narrow and biased lens of socionormativity and therefore misinterpret all kinds of biodiversity. And so, although transsexual fish, hermaphroditic hyenas, nonmonoga-
Jack Halberstam • The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
“Drag artist don’t always want to become activists, we often become so accidentally. gay bars, balls and private parties may start as sites of escapist utopia and fantasy, but they cane become revolutionary in the face of arrest, violence, and erasure.”
Sasha Velour, The Big Reveal
David Halperin attempts to define “queer” in his 1997 book, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, in which he argues that Foucault’s idea that sexuality is a product of discourse revolutionized gay and lesbian political activism. He describes “queer” as “whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in par
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
As with trans people, the most socially acceptable way to be gay is for nothing, save the existence of your same-sex spouse, to betray your queerness.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Dr. Shay-Akil McLean, a Black trans educator, organizer and sociologist, says our conversations about gender autonomy and self-determination must be situated within a decolonial, historical context. By this he means it’s important to note that trans folks were only ever called trans because cis people needed a way to differentiate, and further marg
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