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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)
“In an ideal world, queer, trans, and nonbinary people wouldn’t have to perform in order to survive. But we do what we have to (and a few of us really love it!). sometimes the only ways that those of us who refuse the binaries and templates of our times can be understood is within the role of a performer - as goddess, witch, entertainer, or muse.
... See more“A gay man loves and desires other men, and a lesbian desires and loves other women,” explains Sky Gilbert, a drag queen. “This defines the existential state of being gay. If there is no such thing as ‘male’ or ‘female,’ the entire self-definition of gay identity, which we have spent generations seeking to validate and protect from bigots,
... See moreMark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
“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
Queer ecology as an interpretive framework seeks to disrupt how heteronormative projections onto nature produce bad science. Queerness, it turns out, isn’t a rarity inside ecosystems. It is ubiquitous, from flowers to insects to fungi.
Sophie Strand • The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human
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
... 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.