Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. This post focuses on queer studies in celebration of Pride Month and yesterday’s Equality March for Unity & Pride. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.
Queer Studies
- Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
Christina B. Hanhardt
2013 - Against the Day: “Queer Theory after Marriage Equality”
Ben Trott, editor
South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 2
April 2016 - No Tea, No Shade: New Writing in Black Queer Studies
E. Patrick Johnson
2016 - “Emboldened by Outsiders, Restricted At Home: How Sexism Holds Back Queer Women in West and Central Africa”
Robbie Corey-Boulet
World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
Spring 2017 - “‘Finally, She’s Accepted Herself!’ Coming Out in Neoliberal Times”
Stephanie D. Clare
Social Text, number 130
June 2017 - “Queer Space in the Ruins of Dictatorship Architecture”
Bobby Benedicto
Social Text, number 117
Winter 2013 - “Homomilitarism: The Same-Sex Erotics of the US Empire in Guam and Hawai‘i”
Keith L. Camacho
Radical History Review, number 123
October 2015 - “Gays, Cross-Dressers, and Emos: Nonnormative Masculinities in Militarized Iraq”
Achim Rohde
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, volume 12, number 3
November 2016
- “Asexual Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive”
Ela Przybylo and Danielle Cooper
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 20, issue 3
2014 - Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
2016
These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.
