QUEER CHILD, OR GROWING SIDEWAYS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's stran geness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children eme rge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by colour, the child queered by Freud, the child quee red by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a child (or as an animal), alongside the gay child. What might the not ion of a...[Read more]