I’m re-reading some work from our Gender and Culture Colloquium last fall in order to prepare for my talk at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) conference coming up (egads! a month away) and to talk to my colleague and friend Luke about some of the ideas (he’s reading this stuff for the first time).
I’m re-reading “Critically Queer” by Judith Butler. Amazing. Just a quick quotation for today:
If the term “queer” is to be a site of collective contestation, the point of departure for a set of historical reflections and futural imaginings, it will have to remain that which is, in the present, never fully owned, but always and only redeployed, twisted, queered from a prior usage and in the direction of urgent and expanding political purposes, and perhaps also yielded in favor of terms that do that political work more effectively. (14)
Butler, Judith. “Critically Queer.” Play with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories. Ed. Shane Phelan. New York: Routledge, 1997. 11-29.
