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Call Me Queer

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 in Gender, LGBTQ, Writing | 1 comment

Queer, by its very definition, is a word for the fringe. It represents the "off," the strange, the not-quite-anything. Queer is both an adjective and a verb. To queer something means to skew it, recontextualize it, or remediate it. Sometimes this means to apply a strictly queer sexual context to something, as in "queering art" by laying over a canon a queer sensibility (such as skewed gender roles, homo-eroticism, or kink, for instance). Sometimes, it means taking something out of context so that its essence can be better understood. Thus, queer is both an addition and a subtraction, inclusive and exclusive.

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Help me fly away!

Posted on Jul 8, 2010 in Feminism, Writing | 0 comments

I got a lovely little grant from the Creative Capacity to fund my ambitions to get to the She-Wolf conference in September. This has fueled my efforts nicely, but I'll need a lot more help to inject some queerness into the proceedings.

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