The Queer Art of Failure is a provocative, hilarious, and insightful study of cultural manifestations of failure that practices exactly what it preaches. Adopting “low theory,”–“a kind of theoretical model that flies below the radar, that is assembled from eccentric texts and examples”, Halberstam does not impose an established theoretical perspective onto her varied materials,…
Department of Radio, Television and Film, the University of Texas at Austin Copyright (c) 1993 by Sandy Stone. This article may be freely distributed through the net except as indicated herein, but may not be reproduced in hardcopy without permission. The Microsoft Network is specifically prohibited from linking to or distributing this work in any…
The following work is a textual adaptation of a performance piece originally presented at “Rage Across the Disciplines,” an arts, humanities, and social sciences conference held June 10-12, 1993 at California State University, San Marcos. The interdisciplinary nature of the conference, its theme, and the organizers’ call for both performances and academic papers inspired me…
Cohen looks at the failed features of queer political activism, as evolved from queer theory, and discusses how intersectionality is the key to not merely ushering in inclusive political activism, but forming collectives based on transformational agendas. In other words, for queer to really do the work, it must transform not just heteronormative oppression, but…
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in the overturning…
2023 update: Beacon has requested the takedown of this text. We no longer host the book. *We only share this virulently anti-trans text as a historical example of early TERF writing. For much better read, check out Sandy Stone’s reply in The Empire Strikes Back. Review: “Raymond investigates the role of transsexualism in society –…
Judith Butler es una de las feministas de referencia en el panorama filosófico actual y El género en disputa es un texto indispensable para el movimiento feminista. El género en disputa, obra fundadora de la llamada teoría queer y emblema de los estudios de género como se conocen hoy en día, es un volumen indispensable…
En Cuerpos que Importan, renombrada teorista y filosofia Judith Butler se argumenta que las teorias de genero necesitan regresar al maximo dimension del sexo y la sexualidad: el cuerpo. Butler ofrece un brillante reelboracion del cuerpo, examinando como el poder de la hegemonia heterosexual se forma la “sustancia” del cuerpos, sexo, y genero. Butler se…
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, ‘essential’ notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category ‘woman’ and continues in…
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler’s recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern–and fail to govern–gender and sexuality as they relate…