"Identity politics enabled many formerly silenced and displaced groups to emerge from the margins of power and dominant culture to reassert and reclain suppressed identities and experiences; but in doing so, they often
substituted one master narrative for another, invoked a politics of separa
tism, and suppressed differences within their own ' ( Read more... )

"A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing." - Martin Heidegger, 'Building, dwelling, thinking'

"Instead of interrogating a category, we will interrogate a woman. It will at least be more agreeable." -Ep Thompson (1978)-- cited in Denise Riley, Am I that Name?

"Conventionally, when one comes out of the closet (and yet, how often is it the case that we are 'outted' when we are young and without resources?); so we are out of the closet, but into what? what new unbounded spatiality? the room, the den, the attic, the basement, the house, the bar, the university, some new enclosure whose door, like Kafka's ( Read more... )

Queer Pedagogy: Praxis Makes Im/Perfect - an analysis by James Sheldon
Mary Bryson and Suzanne De Castell
In Radical inventions ( Read more... )

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/WMNS/Projects/Porteousd/Chapter%2005.doc

"It seems that a worthwhile avenue for the elucidation of a queer praxis might be to consider the value of an actively queerying pegagogy - of queering its technics and scribbling grafitti over its texts, of colouring outside the lines so as to deliberately take a wrong route on the way to school- going in an altogether different direction than ( Read more... )

Here's a copy of the grant proposal that I submitted to the Institute for Anarchist Studies last night* 1. Provide a one-paragraph summary of your essay project ( Read more... )