List of readings up to the present
Hannah Gillard
November 2012
Topic- deconstructing closet narratives
- Chapter 1 from Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- 'Beyond the Closet as a Raceless Paradigm' by Marlon Ross, in Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (eds E.P. Johnson and M.G. Henderson)
- 'Cry Me a River: Tears of Pride Walk' from the website PLUG: http://discoatemybaby.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/cry-me-a-river-tears-of-pride-walk/
December 2012
Topic- queer theory and drugs
- 'Epidemics of the Will', chapter 8 of Tendencies by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Preface+ chapter 1 of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs by Kane Race
January 2013
Topic- crip theory
- Examined Life Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HZaPkF6qE
- Robert McRuer,'Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/ Disabled Existence', Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, 2006
- Robert McRuer and Abby Wilkerson, 'Introduction', GLQ: A Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies, 2003, Vol. 9, Iss.1/2
- Ellen Samuels, 'My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out Discourse', GLQ: A Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies, 2003, Vol. 9, Iss. 1/2
- Ellen Samuels, 'Critical Divides: Judith Butler's Body Theory and the Question of Disability', Feminist Disability Studies, 2011
February 2013
Topic: Queer theory and the prison industrial complex (PIC)
- Angela Davis, 'The Prison Industrial Complex', chapter 5 from Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Sarah Lamble, 'Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Through a Queer/Trans Analysis', chapter in Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
- Open Lecture by Dean Spade, 'Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law': http://vimeo.com/44826510
- Eric Stanley, 'Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture', Social Text Vol 29, No 2
Additional article
Andrea Smith, 'Unmasking the state: racial/gender terror and hate crimes' (2007) Australian Feminist Law Journal Vol 26, pp.47-57
N.B. this isn’t a set article for the group, I just thought I’d include it here as I thought it was an excellent piece. It discusses the way hate crimes legislation (which purports to protect queers, women, trans folk) perpetuates the prison industrial complex, the heteropatriarchal racial state, and effectively violence against the people it claims to protect.
March 2013
Topic: Queer animal studies
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queer animal studies
- Sune Borkfelt, 'The non-human colonial subject: The importance of animal bodies to British imperialism', chapter in A Full-Bodied Society, eds Logie Barrow and Francois Poirier, 2010
- Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen , 'A Queer Vegan Manifesto' (2012) Journal for Critical Animal Studies Vol 10, Iss 3
- Kathy Rudy, 'LGBTQ...Z?'(2012) Hypatia Vol 27, No 3
- Colin Carman, 'Grizzly Love: The Queer Ecology of Timothy Treadwell' (2012) GLQ, Vol 18, No 4
Recommend readings (only if you have the time)
- Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man
- Myra Hird, 'Animal Trans' in Queering the Non/Human eds Noreen Giffney and Myra Hird, 2008
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queer theory and psychoanalysis
Set readings
- 'Touching gender: Abjection and the hygienic imagination' by Sheila Cavanagh, chapter 33 from The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013) eds Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura
- 'Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, Or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You', chapter 4 in Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Recommended reading (only if you have spare time)
- 'An Ethics of transsexual difference: Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability' by Gayle Salamon, chapter 32 from The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013) eds Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Trans* embodiment and radical political economy
- 'Normalized transgressions: legitimizing the transsexual body as productive', chapter 1 from The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013) eds Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura
- 'Tracing the body: transsexuality, pharmaceuticals, and capitalism', chapter 4 in The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013) eds Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura
Hannah Gillard
Topic: queer theory and the death drive
- 'The Future is Kid Stuff', chapter 1 from No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004),pp. 1-31
- 'Sinthomosexuality', chapter 2 from No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive(2004), pp.33-66
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queer theory and religion
Key readings
- Schippert, C., 'Implications of Queer Theory for the Study of Religion and Gender: Entering the Third Decade'(2011) Religion and Gender, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 66-84
- Abraham, I. ,'"Out to get us": queer Muslims and the clash of sexual civilisations in Australia' (2009) Contemporary Islam, Vol. 3, Iss.1, pp 79-97
Optional
Brintnall, K., 'Queer studies and religion' (2013) Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pp 51-61
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Fattening queer theory
Key readings
1. 'No Fat Future: The uses of Anti-Social Queer Theory for Fat Activism', chapter 1 in Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism and the Political (2013)
2. Fink, Marty, 'It Gets Fatter: Graphic Fatness and Resilient Eating in Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's Skim' (2013) Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, pp.132-146
Recommended reading
Murray, Samantha, '(Un/Be)Coming Out? Rethinking Fat Politics' (2005) Social Semiotics, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 153-163
Hannah Gillard
Topic: the queer child
Set reading
Kathryn Bond Stockton, 'Growing Sideways, or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the Twentieth Century', introduction in The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (2009)
Hannah Gillard
October 2013
Topic: Queer indigenous critiques
Key readings
- Qwo-Li Driskill, 'Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies'(2010) GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol.16, No.1-2, pp.69-92
- Andrea Smith, 'Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism' (2010) GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol.16, No.1-2, pp. 42-68
Recommended reading
Mark Rifkin, 'The Erotics of Sovereignty', chapter 10 in Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory,Politics, and Literature (2011) pp.172-189
Hannah Gillard
We didn't run our September reading group, so we'll be discussing the primary reading from that in our November group.
Topic: queerness and childhood
- K. Bond Stockton, 'Growing Sideways, or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the Twentieth Century', introduction in The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (2009)
Extra readings
- J. Halberstam, 'Oh Bondage Up Yours! Female Masculinity and the Tomboy', chapter in Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (2004)
Hannah Gillard
Topic- happiness and queer politics
Key readings
- Ahmed, Sara, 'Introduction: Why happiness, Why Now?' in The Promise of Happiness (2010)
- Ahmed, Sara, ‘Happiness and Queer Politics' (2009) World Picture No. 3
http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/WP_3/Ahmed.html
Extra reading
- Ahmed, Sara, 'Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)'(2010) The Scholar & Feminist Online, Issue 8, No 3
http://sfonline.barnard.edu/polyphonic/ahmed_01.htm
Hannah Gillard
Key readings
- Peter Jackson, Fran Martin and Mark McLelland, 'Re‐placing queer studies: reflections on the Queer Matters conference (King's college, London, May 2004)' (2005) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 299-311
- Song Hwee Lim, 'How to be Queer in Taiwan: Translation, Appropriation and the construction of Queer Identity in Taiwan', chapter 13 in AsiaPacifiQueer (2008)
Extra reading (optional)
Katsuhiko Suganuma,'Allegorising the erotic: transforming intercultural queer desire in John Treat's “Great Mirrors Shattered”', chapter 4 in Contact Moments: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male Queer Cultures (2012)
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queer theory and antiwork politics
- Extracts from introduction and chapter 1, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks (2011)
- Kathi Weeks, 'Feminist Politics, Social Reproduction, and Life after Work'. Talk
at the 9th annual Historical Materialism conference, plenary panel on
'Gender, Work and Reproduction in the Crisis', 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o072JYSTNt8
Hannah Gillard
May 2014
Text: Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality (2009) by Margrit Shildrick
Readings
- Introduction
- Chapter 2: Genealogies
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queer Indigenous identities
Key reading
Gays and Lesbians Aboriginal Alliance, ‘Peopling the Empty Mirror: The Prospects for Lesbian and Gay Aboriginal History’, chapter in Gay Perspectives II: More Essays in Australian Gay Culture (1994)
September 2014
Set reading
- Wykes, J., 'Introduction: Why Queering Fat Embodiment?', chapter 1 in Queering Fat Embodiment (2014)
- Longhurst, R., 'Queering Body Size and Shape: Performativity, the Closet, Shame and Orientation', chapter 2 in Queering Fat Embodiment (2014)
Extra reading
Burford, J. and Orchard, S.,'Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment', chapter 6 in Queering Fat Embodiment (2014)Note about the readings
One group member expressed interest in studying the Longhurst chapter, so it's been set as the second main reading. However, the Burford and Orchard chapter 'Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment' is also fantastic. If you'd prefer to read the Burford & Orchard chapter in lieu of the Longhurst one, go for it, and we can discuss both.
Hannah Gillard
October 2014
Topic: reading group for Asexual Awareness Week
'Introduction' and chapter 6, ‘On the Racialization of Asexuality’ in Cerankowski, K. and Milks, M. (eds) Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (2014)
August 2015
Topic: second reading group on asexuality and queer theory
- Przybylo, E. and Cooper, D. (2014) 'Asexual
Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive', GLQ: A
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 20, 3, pp.297-318
- Cerankowski, K. (2014) 'Spectacular Asexuals: Media
Visibility and Cultural Fetish' in Cerankowski, K. and Milks, M. (eds) Asexualities:
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Polyamory and queer theory
Readings
1) Eleanor Wilkinson, ‘What’s Queer about Non-Monogamy Now?’, chapter 25 in Understanding Non-Monogamies (2010)
2) Christine Klesse, ‘”Loving More Than One”: On the Discourse of Polyamory’, chapter 5 in Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queerness and trauma
Reading group date/time: Sun 6 December @1.30pm
Reading
Cvetkovich, A. (2003) 'Introduction' in An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, pp.1-14
Optional reading
Cvetkovich, A. (2003) 'Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism, and Therapeutic Culture'' in An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, pp.83-117
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Queer Indigenous identities in the Australian context
Readings
1) Baylis, Troy-Anthony, 'Introduction: Looking into the Mirror' from 'Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives' (2015)
2) Clark, Maddee, 'Are we Queer? Reflections on "Peopling the Empty Mirror" Twenty Years On' from 'Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives' (2015)
Hannah Gillard
Topic: Pansexuality and Polysexuality
Readings
1) Callis, A.S. (2014) ‘Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer: Non-binary Identities and the Sexual Borderlands’, Sexualities, Vol. 17, Iss.1-2, pp. 63–80
2) ‘19 Problems All Polysexual People Know To Be True’ by Julia Pugachevsky: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachevsky/problems-all-polysexual-people-know-to-be-true
September 2016
Topic: Metronormativity*
Reading
Scott Herring, ‘Introduction: I Hate New York’ in Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (2010) (pp. 1-30)
*Metronormativity describes the idea that the movement of queers from rural to city areas is inherently liberatory, and that country areas are conservative, backward spaces. Lisa Gillespi explains the concept further in her review of Scott Herring’s ‘Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism’: ‘metronormativity may sound familiar- it’s a play on “heteronormativity,” which dictates that heterosexuality is the normal sexual identity- it holds that gay people cannot be normal or liberated if they live in rural areas. Metronormativity also lends itself to upward mobility and whiteness, which he touches on briefly, noting that queer activist Audre Lorde never felt at home in New York City’: http://genprogress.org/voices/2010/08/09/15556/the-problem-with-urban-gay-meccas/