… Drawing on postcolonial, feminist and queer theory, and readings of queer literary and …
Woman Question and queer questions. It argues, first, that contemporary queer questions echo …

… Thus we might ask what cultural work queer theory is doing? Put another way, to what
extent is queer theory being deployed to shore up heterosexuality? To be sure, heterosexuality …

… One of the compelling but problematic things about doing queer theory is … questions tend
to jostle together: is queer theory about real life (my life)? Do you have to be queer to do queer …

… the profligate way this culture has of denying and despoiling queer energies and lives. I look
at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of …

… queer self, and reflexivity—raise questions … being able to move beyond that location, out
of our mindset, theoretical orientations, and preconceptions. Queer ethnography requires doing …

… Butler's essay "Critically Queer" examines how the term queer has been used to mobilize
hatred and … Douglas Crimp, in his essay on AIDS activists and the question of making a political …

… I explore these questions through the concept of queer … and difference by introducing queer
theory into this conversation. … A queer lens would have directed me away from making those …

… issue contributes to discussions of queer positionalities in the context of doing fieldwork on/with
queer… The point of departure being that the term queer has emerged to qualify a specific …

… being akin to free verse poetry. If you had started to restrict the stanzas of our speech by the
way you formed the question … , as we are doing, then I think we all get more out of doing this. I …

… Because “queer” writings may not remain so queer, queer can remain ever elusively
transgressive not just by defying being named, but by doing what queer does—operating beyond …