qthry

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the queer theory blog

Author: Kenneth

  • Call to Organize

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    Kenneth

    Reblog via It’s Going Down Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to be a…

  • Philip N. Cohen: Are too many children transitioning? That’s the wrong question

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    Kenneth

    Thanks to Philip N. Cohen for an important perspective on the state of legislation around access to gender-affirming care for children. While there are reasonable questions about why children need certain healthcare procedures to begin with, the solution is not to make it harder to get needed care. The decision whether to slow down or…

  • Philip N. Cohen: The Trumpist right, where young women work with old men

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    Kenneth

    Philip Cohen took a quick scholarly look at the Conservative Partnership Institute with an eye toward workplace demographics. What he found was, perhaps, structural mysogyny on display. This phenomenon deserves more attention from researchers of work and gender. Cohen points out that CPI’s gendered structure is far different from average workplaces. Is this structure (gendered…

  • Reblog of Jeffrey Lockhart: introducing theory and social inquiry

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    Kenneth

    The former editors of Theory and Society have started a new journal to meet the concerns of those who do not support Springer Nature’s interventions in the direction of that journal. The new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, promises dedication to leadership by the academic community it intends to represent as well as principles of…

  • A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, on NOTCHES

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    Kenneth

    Reblog via NOTCHES Blog A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers is a lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City. In this edited extract, the author Jen Jack Gieseking explains the conceptual and political limitations of imagining neighborhoods as the emblematic form of queer space. The book draws upon interviews with 47…

  • Queering Motherhood

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    Kenneth

    An attempt at a queer reading of Bouvard’s “Revolutionizing Motherhood.” It can be said that being queer is inherently political. Does it follow, then, that being political in a revolutionary way is inherently queer?