QUEER

Historically, queer was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, queer was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Rather, it offers a strategic undercutting of the stability of identity and of the dispensation of power that shadows the assignment of categories and taxonomies. ...[Read more]