Tag: Queer Studies
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Intentional Oversaturation
Why am I here? Writing a blog of all things. How are my thoughts beneficial to our already oversaturated online social discourse? I have struggled with these questions myself. Self-serving writing is well, exactly that: self-serving. Writing for one’s own benefit feels, perhaps is, narcissistic. Regardless of format – journaling, blogging, influencing on another social… Read more
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_Outside The Closet
They’ve got us exactly where they want us. In fact, they’ve got me exactly where they want me. I am more than scared; Dare I say, prior to now, I have been petrified. For weeks now, I have succumb to an internal debate regarding my writing, my stories, and their publication — be it on my website… Read more
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_Existence
Existence is political. If you disagree, you benefit from social privileges and/or unjust entitlements. If you agree, but believe that your life is only minorly impacted, or not at all, then again, you benefit from social privileges and/or unjust entitlements. Even those of us that fully agree, benefit from the like. Further, even those of… Read more
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_Exposition
What does it mean to be Queer By Extension? To define that is, in fact, the purpose of this blog, but even tangentially; it’s difficult. Queer, we know to mean out-of-the-ordinary, odd, non-typical. Extension is of the tangential, an addition or expansion. This series is an analytical commentary on how outside influences shape, and are shaped,… Read more
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A Critique on Sarah Hoagland’s “Separating From Heterosexualism”
Sarah Hoagland’s Separating from Heterosexualism takes an extreme-separatist approach in order to resist gender-based oppression. Hoagland argues that heterosexualism is, “an entire way of living which involves a delicate, though at times indelicate, balance between masculine predation upon and masculine protection of a feminine object of masculine attention” and that resisting oppression under the system of heterosexualism… Read more