Queer

yoga. However, Ramdev is just one among many faces in our society who argue vehemently against homosexuality. These speakers use God, culture, tradition, myths, etcetera, as tools against ‘queer’ practices. Now, the question comes, who can be categorized as ‘queer’? The answer that comes in my mind is that queers are those who dare think against the performative roles of the society. Thus, the term encompasses a broader aspect than we understand it to acquire. The term is generally attached with…

Zahwa Ezzelden Prof. Forman 12/01/2017 Gender Queer Theories In the short drama “The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde”, the story takes place in the Victorian Era. In the Victorian Era, it was very common for the Male to be in charge, and the one with the higher classes, versus the female, where the female is usually the one that would stay home, cook and clean and be the modest one. Oscar Wilde took a spin on the “proper” gender roles that are appropriate for that Era and he made…

later sexual and romantic endeavors certainly shine a light on how her dual status as deaf and queer could potentially influence such experiences. Even though the inclusion of these sexual and romantic encounters can seem extraneous when considering Mean Little deaf Queer as a text about disability, their presence makes it alarmingly clear that Terry Galloway isn’t simply a deaf woman—she is deaf and queer, in all aspects of her life. Hence, these stories are vital. In one of her many explicitly…

Queer and the Spiritual Experience Regarding religiosity and spiritual experience, these two elements can indeed bring a person inside the LGBTQIA community into a better understanding of themselves and take the individual into a greater state of awareness and being “one” with society and the world; so stating that a spiritual experience can give any person greater awareness, or truth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. In Satyal’s Blue Boy, we see how the protagonist Kiran…

The beauty of acceptance, once a dream now a reality. Richard Blanco’s “Queer Theory: According to My Grandmother gives us a glimpse into what it was for him growing up being pressurized to be a certain way that was considered “masculine”. Although the poem is called Queer theory and Blanco is gay this focuses more on gender norms rather than actual sexuality. It reflects on what it was that made a boy or girl back then a queer according to those around him, as well it describes the ignorance of…

Janet R. Jakobsen’s essay, Queers Are Like Jews, Aren’t They? Analogy and Alliance Politics, discusses in depth what it means to queer something and to do Jewish. Jakobsen explains the relationship between these two actions and encourages the process of “thinking through the possibilities of playing off multiple norms” (p 82). She is able to do this with the help of a reading by Stacy Wolf on Barbara Streisand’s queer performances. I will look closely at Jakobsen’s argument about Barbara…

“Queer Bodies: Sexualities, Genders, & Fatness in Physical Education” is a research based novel by Heather Sykes. Sykes is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and specializes in educational studies and physical education (Sykes, 2011). Heather Sykes has been published in a variety of academic journals for her research in critically analyzing issues of gender, sexuality and fatness in physical education as well as sports sociology. Her book, “Queer Bodies: Sexualities, Genders, &…

Penny Dreadful Empowers the Queer society In recent television history, both the monsters and sources of queer have become a popular scene in television. The horror industry is notable for its depictions of both monsters and representations of queer. The body of the queer monster tends to mirror creatures from mythologies and classic horror. The things that go bump in the night, that are dangerous, on the run, and appalling. The horror series Penny Dreadful, created by John Logan, gives…

shares with the readers to invoke queer identities on the surface. However, Mootoo explores these queer identities in numerous ways. "Cereus Blooms at Night" allows us to see the unnatural and natural forces of queer identities that are present in the novel as something deeper in society. Tyler and Otoh have a shared queerness in terms of their sexualities and how they become an unnatural force in their society's. Tyler struggles to come to terms with his queer identity as something natural to…

toppled everywhere. As in, with the recent trending of boycotting #BuryYourGays, the pattern of denying queer characters their happy ending has become prevalent and more obvious in television culture. “#BuryYourGays” is television’s most prevailing, problematic, common trope in terms of the representation of queer characters. The trope, similar to its predecessor the “Dead Lesbian Syndrome,” whereby queer (specifically bisexual and lesbian) characters either…