Queer

Hey guys! Diana here, and today I want to discuss the importance of representation. Only in recent years have queer characters and relationship wiggled onto the big screen. After decades of the queer community being shoved aside for straight story lines, we are finally starting to see our own blossoming in the limelight. But it isn't all sunshine and rainbows (pardon the pun). As a community, we still face a lot of problems when it comes to media, primarily not being represented at all, and when…

Like mentioned before, queer theory focuses on the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are as a person. The main idea of queer theory is “criticizing the dominant heterosexual binary, masculine/feminine, which enthrones ‘the’ two sexes and which casts other sexualities as abnormal, illicit, or criminal” (Leitch, 26). A central priority of queer theory is to also recover the literature from many queer writers, characters, and themes through teaching…

Being Queer- The Abominable Crime? Attraction, love, lust, attachment, emotions, relationships, sex, marriages- How are all these words so relatable to us, the Indian society, only when we think of a heterosexual couple. Why is it so hard for us to understand that these exact words apply to every human being irrespective of his sexual preferences. Why is it that we feel like we have the right to judge, criticise and reprimand what someone else does in his/her life. The norms and mindset of our…

the growing numbers of Americans who identify as LGBTQ (queer) the community still lacks basic resources and support. One sector that is particularly inefficient and harmful is the health care system. Numerous studies illustrate the shortcomings of medical schools and the medical care systems from the mid-nineties through the 2011. The studies focus on the lack of queer education in the schooling process, the specific health issues that queer people face, and the barriers to care. However, there…

Her essay entitled Queer Wallpaper for the book A Companion to contemporary art since 1945 in 2000. The main goal of this essay is to showcase to the readers' different question to pose when reading about queer art in history or viewing it in a gallery setting. This essay is not wholly based around Andy Warhol as an artist or his life, rather she uses him as a platform to reach the broader topic of queer art misrepresentation and to showcase another major queer artist such as David Wojnarocicz…

Throughout history, identity has gained the connotation of being one’s personality and behaviour. In Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, those that harbour an true identity of their own form a healthy mentality, whereas those that are deprived of possessing a true identity deteriorate mentally. The characters’ ability to form a healthy mental state is inhibited by their loss of self-identity, loss of racial identity and by gender interfering with their ability to embody a true identity. Therefore,…

because children are not yet configured and used to the social norm which would have been taught to them. Additionally Halberstam points out that “In many of these “queer fairy tales” romance gives way to friendship, individuation gives way to collectivity, and “successful” heterosexual coupling is upended, displaced, and challenged by queer contact... characters regularly choose collectivity over domesticity”(119). Affirming that it are actually the non-labelling and the…

The 1965 Barbie advertisement supports Judith Butler’s theory in Gender Trouble of gender performativity. In the performativity of women, certain actions associated with femininity have been repeated to form a concrete idea of what a true woman is. Butler supports this idea with the statement that the “expectation produces the very phenomenon that it anticipates” (Butler xv), meaning that the constant pressure for women of all ages to be feminine, demure, and motherly creates the idea that there…

early scholars, such as Freud, and more contemporary experts, including Weekes, the study of sexuality has become a topic with a very active field of experts. Through the differences that separate Weekes and Freud common streams of thought can be seen. After a look at the history of the study of sexuality, Weekes turns to a more contemporary approach for understanding sexuality spearheaded by Michel Foucault. This approach focuses on sexuality through its history (16). Through the history of…

Queer theory stands on the belief that gender is not a component of the essential self and on the foundation that gay/lesbian inquires’ exploits the socially constructed nature of sexual acts and identities. Unlike gay/lesbian studies, which focus to natural and unnatural behaviour in relation to homosexual behaviour, queer theory embraces all forms of sexual activity or identify that belongs to normative and deviant categories. Jagose (1996) illustrates that queer theory emphasises…