Queer Theory Is My Boyfriend: Recent Episodes
Jarred Wiehe
A podcast mini-lecture designed for students of ENGL 3321: Literature and Film: 90s New Queer Cinema. The views are my own.
We visit Crenshaw's essay "Demarginalizing the Intersection" and think about how Erevelles and Minear model that work for Disability Studies. Content warning: Erevelles and Minear explore racist state-sanctioned violence in policing and education.
The first episode of lil lectures to help students wrestle with theory on ENGL 4380. Please note this episode ends with a brief reflection on police violence, the right to maim, and white supremacy.
We think about the anti-social turn in queer theory, cruel optimism, and a movie where heterosexuality isn't real but maybe that makes some folks sad.
We're thinking about some vintage homosexual postmodern chicanery with Leo Bersani's wild 80s essay and J. Jack Halberstam's In a Queer Time and Place.