Queer Theory Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/queer-theory/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Queer Theory Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/queer-theory/ 32 32 Getting to the Party in Time https://www.publicbooks.org/getting-to-the-party-in-time/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=32780 The best parties, L. O. Aranye Fradenburg Joy claims in her epilogue to Jonathan Goldberg’s Sappho: ]fragments, are the after-parties: the parties that happen ...

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]]> Impossible Belonging https://www.publicbooks.org/impossible-belonging/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28881 If the sharp end of critique’s job is to name injury, then it also has a soft lining that is oriented around recovery and repair. Even if a particular critical project stays with injury rather than whatever might come after, what else is there to want, in the wake of naming injury, but to fix […]

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]]> Saboteurs in the Modern Academy https://www.publicbooks.org/saboteurs-in-the-modern-academy/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:00:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=25027 What hope remains for the masses of disillusioned graduate students, unemployed PhDs, and embittered faculty who still, despite everything, believe in ...

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]]> “A Thousand Years” of Zoe Leonard https://www.publicbooks.org/a-thousand-years-of-zoe-leonard/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:00:46 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=21640 Zoe Leonard has a gift for seeing similarities. In every gallery of her Survey at the Whitney, this capacity for sensing, finding, and producing similarities is ...

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]]> Queers Growing Old and Young https://www.publicbooks.org/queers-growing-old-and-young/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:00:33 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=19074 Do queers ever grow old? Do their ideas stiffen and their sensibilities melt? Do they fret over finances and retirement accounts, the state of their kitchen plumbing ...

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]]> The Sisters Grimm https://www.publicbooks.org/the-sisters-grimm/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:00:43 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18650 Can a centuries-old literary tradition tell us anything useful about modern life? The continuing vitality of the fairy tale in contemporary culture would suggest an emphatic yes. And the vast portfolio of fairy tales revised and reimagined by feminist writers highlights the genre’s particular relevance to ongoing questions about gender, difference, and power. Carmen Maria […]

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]]> Queer Your Own Adventure https://www.publicbooks.org/queer-your-own-adventure/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:00:11 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18322 “BEWARE and WARNING!” So heralds the front page of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, wildly popular in the 1980s and 1990s. “This book is ...

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]]> The Book That Made Me: Gay https://www.publicbooks.org/the-book-that-made-me-gay/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:00:29 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=10590 A professor of English and gender studies reveals how one’s identity can be transformed from the most unexpected sources—in this case, sports memoir …

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]]> Join the Mutant Resistance! https://www.publicbooks.org/join-mutant-resistance/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:58:07 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=8824 The real world just got a lot more like a superhero comic, and not in a good way. I write on November 13, 2016; one of the many things that came up in my panicked, angry, sometimes despairing social …

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]]> Rape Culture Syllabus https://www.publicbooks.org/rape-culture-syllabus/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/rape-culture-syllabus/ I just start kissing them. Just kiss—I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. —Donald Trump The video was released on Friday, October 7. At the presidential debate two days later, when CNN […]

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