Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and Queer World-making

Inside Out: Queer Theory and Popular Culture

Sexuality and the Nation: Urban Popular Music and Queer Identities in Krámpack

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises tha...

Queer Families

In December 2005, an appeals court in New York State ruled “that the state constitution does not require New York to treat gay couples the same as heterosexual couples in marriage licensing” (Keen 11). The ongoing gay marriage debate has set the stage for many lesbians, gays, and queers to ask what marriage equality really means for the gay movement. According to Michael Warner in the book The ...

Playing Peter Pan Conceptua izing " Bois " in Contemporary Queer Theory

As a queer and gender-queer individual, my relationships to both lesbian as an identity and to Toronto's lesbian communities have been marked by a strangely productive ambiguity. While "coming out" as a lesbian was and continues to be empowering, I have become increasingly aware of my own emotional and intellectual tensions with respect to the signifier, "lesbian," as it purports to simultaneou...