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Queer theory is the lens used to explore and challenge how scholars, activists, artistic texts, and the media perpetrate gender- and sex-based binaries, and its goal is to undo hierarchies and fight against social inequalities. [30]
Neuroqueer theory is a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. [1] It examines the ways society constructs and defines normalcy, particularly concerning gender, sexual orientation, and dis/ability, and challenges those constructions. [ 2 ]
Queering (also called queer reading [1]) is a technique used to challenge heteronormativity by analyzing places in a text that use heterosexuality or identity binaries. [2] [3] Coming out of queer theory in the late 1980s through the 1990s, [4] queering is a method that can be applied to literature, film, and other media.
LGBTQ linguistics is the study of language as used by members of LGBTQ communities. Related or synonymous terms include lavender linguistics, advanced by William Leap in the 1990s, which "encompass[es] a wide range of everyday language practices" in LGBTQ communities, [1] and queer linguistics, which refers to the linguistic analysis concerning the effect of heteronormativity on expressing ...
Articles relating to queer theory, the perspective that questions the perception that cisgender and heterosexual identities are in any sense standard. It revisits such fields as literary analysis , philosophy , and politics with a " queer " approach.
Robert McRuer (born 1966) is an American theorist who has contributed to fields in transnational queer and disability studies.McRuer is known as being one of the founding scholars involved in forming the field of queer disability studies, particularly for a theoretical outlook known as crip theory.
In The Trouble With Normal, Warner critiques same-sex marriage activism and other moves more generally by the gay rights movement toward equality in normalcy.The book has been described as a classic of the debates on normalcy as a goal for the gay rights movement, and as an important contribution to queer theory. [5]
The book proposes the argument that "homosexuality" is a loaded term. According to Sedgwick, this term "has always seemed to have at least some male bias—whether because of the pun on Latin homo = man latent in its etymological macaronic, or simply because of the greater attention to men in the discourse surrounding it".