KB Stockton on KRCL!
Listening to a rebroadcast of an earlier interview (don't know from when) about her book The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (it's Pride weekend in SLC). (Here's a link to the show archive, it's worth a listen.) KB Stockton! Takes me back (she was my senior thesis advisor). Her Women's Studies Professor hair! Madonna Scholarship! *sighs happily* She's just so smart.
I think I've related this before, but I remember after a talk in 1990 how excited she was when Madonna appeared at the MTV VMAs as Marie Antoinette because it supported some argument she was making about William Blake's Little Black Boy and queerness. Which it now turns out is one of the lynchpins of the argument of this latest book. From the Lambda review: In presenting novel ways to think beyond the identitarian connections between black and gay as marginalized, Stockton distinguishes between growing up and growing sideways as innocence versus experience. She grounds this major philosophical wrinkle in William Blake’s 1789 poem “The Little Black Boy,” wherein the “black boy, quite simply, is not weak enough to come across as innocent. He is a paragon of strength and experience” (31).
God it's twenty years now since the invention of queer theory. Woah!
I think I've related this before, but I remember after a talk in 1990 how excited she was when Madonna appeared at the MTV VMAs as Marie Antoinette because it supported some argument she was making about William Blake's Little Black Boy and queerness. Which it now turns out is one of the lynchpins of the argument of this latest book. From the Lambda review: In presenting novel ways to think beyond the identitarian connections between black and gay as marginalized, Stockton distinguishes between growing up and growing sideways as innocence versus experience. She grounds this major philosophical wrinkle in William Blake’s 1789 poem “The Little Black Boy,” wherein the “black boy, quite simply, is not weak enough to come across as innocent. He is a paragon of strength and experience” (31).
God it's twenty years now since the invention of queer theory. Woah!