i’d love to see you do more posts on queer theory! it was very refreshing to hear a different perspective than the contemporary one and understand how queerness hasn’t always been defined the way we define it today!
Thank you for this! I first heard of Adrienne Rich while reading We Were Witches by Ariel Gore but haven’t read anything by her until this post. Very enlightening work and illuminated for me.
I read the master doc (and still have a copy on my phone) and it was a good starting point. I didn’t understand everything then but have since learned more and built the “rules” of my own identity.
I’d be interested in seeing more queer theory. You’re an amazing writer and I’d love to hear your insights on any issues you’d like to bring up.
Ok I see women wanting to fuck women and women wanting to wear pants as on a lesbian continuum.
But then you end up putting het trans women on a lesbian continuum.
Yes you are right for this. It was the 70s so maybe the better updated term could be queer or queer continuum (queer feminism?? Idk)
Eve Sedgwick writes
“queer to hold all kinds of resistances and fracturings and mismatches that have little or nothing to do with sexual orientation”
like feminism you can be a woman but not a feminist, I think you can be LGBT and not in the queer continuum if you choose.
But also currently queer is used in place of labels like trans or gay or gender nonconforming? So???
YES!!
i’d love to see you do more posts on queer theory! it was very refreshing to hear a different perspective than the contemporary one and understand how queerness hasn’t always been defined the way we define it today!
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for this! I first heard of Adrienne Rich while reading We Were Witches by Ariel Gore but haven’t read anything by her until this post. Very enlightening work and illuminated for me.
I read the master doc (and still have a copy on my phone) and it was a good starting point. I didn’t understand everything then but have since learned more and built the “rules” of my own identity.
I’d be interested in seeing more queer theory. You’re an amazing writer and I’d love to hear your insights on any issues you’d like to bring up.
Thank you!