So tonight's topic for the Queer Studies Circle is "What's the Trouble With Normal?" and I've basically excused the fact that I spent my day doing the NYT crossword and occasionally glancing at a pile of unread books by doing the extra reading that we've suggested, as I'll look like a total idiot if I haven't actually read them beforehand. It sounds like this one might actually get semi-heated, so I'm kinda stoked to sit back and watch how it unfolds.
- "Teresa de Lauretis, the theorist often credited with inaugurating the phrase 'queer theory' (Wiegman, 1994: 17), abandoned it barely three years later, on the grounds that it had been taken over by those mainstream forces and institutions it was coined to resist... Distancing herself from her earlier advocacy of queer, de Lauretis now represents it as devoid of the political or critical acumen she once thought it promised" (Jagose, 1996: 127-129).
- Andrew Sullivan's "The End of Gay Culture":
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=cac6ca08-7df8-4cdd-93cc-1d20cd8b7a70
- Review of 'The Trouble With Normal':
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/12/08/warner/
- Queer Nation's "Queers Read This":
http://www.qrd.org/qrd/misc/text/queers.read.this
I love social anthropology and everything, but Queer Studies Circle makes my brain and heart flutter all at the same time.
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