Queer

a discipline that surrounds the matters on racial issues and identity politics to alleviate the pressures of Western education and culture. However, it is considerably non-inclusive of the ideologies which surround Black Women’s Studies and Black Queer Studies. According to Johnson and Henderson (as cited in Story, 2008), “Black women’s institutional work as well as their intellectual interventions in black studies departments remained understudied, devalued, or marginalized by the reigning…

Queer theory, explained through Eudora Welty’s Moon Lake Moon Lake, by Eudora Welty, narrates the adventures of a group of girls during a summer camp, exploring their desire of discovery and their transition to adolescence, which is also related to the expression of their bodies and their public behavior. Moon Lake, then, is an important space of socialization where orphan and wealthy girls interact with each other, despite of the notorious differences between them; and to explore new…

are no men, thus decimating mundane gender roles. As a result, the characters Laura and Lizzie seem to direct their erotic energies towards each other. The idea of erotic energy itself stems from Queer theory, which focuses on erotic energy independent of the restraints of the gender binary. Moreover, queer theorist seek to interpret the language and gender representation within a piece of literature in an attempt to understand a universe that isn’t often obtrusively presented. In Goblin Market,…

started outside. This identity crises has put zionist in a tight box and Weil is determined to stop it. She comes out to say that not all zionists are homophobic and that they should be included within the community and Weil is taking the steps to queer zionism. The source was beneficial to my understanding of Israel's LGBT standpoint. Although, the source is not completely reliable because I couldn't find much information on the author yet, I found this article on a reliable data base. Ariel…

situation. It follows then that, the term “queer” can be considered a source of the status of force and opposition to stability and variability within the confines of performativity. The term queer has been used on one sole purpose of shaming or insulting those it refers to in relation to sexuality. For example, if a performative such as “I now pronounce you….” In marriage operates to advance the heterosexualisation of the social bond between a man and a woman, “queer” may be used to define or…

Cultural studies focuses on questions of race, gender, and power and so using these theories a creative writing piece can be formed. In fact, one can make a song, poem, or novel inspired from one of these theories: psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, queer theory, marxist theory, historical criticism, postcolonial and critical race theory, and reader response theory, and have their work tailored to it. Moreover, that person can also create plots and characters that portray that specific…

knowledge. But do we want to pursue that ideal through struggle every time we experience something, or should we be occasionally satisfied with the limited, “spoiled” experiences? In the second chapter of his book, “The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other”, Walker Percy argues that lack of independence, as well as the presence of “symbolic complexes,” or interpretations of an experience in the eyes of the public, deprives an…

constructivism of gender tend to fall short by falling back on the heteronormative relationship between male and female. Emerging works in feminist and queer studies have finally started to address the problem that heteronormativity poses. It is important that it is addressed in order to avoid replacing one dominant exclusionary framework with another. Queer…

This essay intends to analyse the 1999 film ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’. The film explores many different themes with a focus on sexuality, gender and family. It makes use of exaggerated stereotypes, specific costuming styles and set design in order to highlight and emphasise certain aspects of characters and the issues discussed within then film. The story follows Megan who was unwillingly sent to an almost comedic version of a Conversion Therapy camp by her parents; it is from here that the meat…

martial arts and fighting, but also enlightened me to start approach subjects with a different angle, a different perspective. In this paper I will be using Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure and the documentary Paris is Burning as…