Conceptual Framework
- Queer: Anything out of the ordernary, normal, cis-hetero-normal mainstream society
- Quare: …and also intersectionality w.r.t. race/ethnicity
- anti-monolithic
- Space (Queer Theory): formalized camaraderies. Examples
- Tenderloins ((Book) Kids on the Street)
- Chosen Family ← alternative formulation of family
- Microphysics of Power
- “Conditioned on” patriarchy, politics, etc. Not fully determined by, but conditioned by.
- Generalized colonization
- colonization, but of queer spaces and people (bodies) by mainstream people.
Methology
- Oral History
- Linguistic Anthropology: “reinterpretation” or “reclaiming” of a term
- Dialectical Synthesis
- Creating something new out of
- Anti-essentialist, Anti-reductionist
- Like Existentialism; existence preceeds essence; rejection of reduction/essentialism of (Philosopher) Edmund Husserl
- Standpoint Theory
- Against Reification of perspectives
Activism
Since queer-ness is by definition a subaltern identity there’s ongoing efforts to rectify repression.
- GLAAD: Media advocacy group—advises on pressures media representation of queer people