Queer Departures into More-Than-Human Worlds
Year: 2016
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter breaks with trends to normalize queer within the human sexuality categories (LBGTQI). The authors approach queering as a strategy for unsettling all normative categories, not just the binary categories of human gender/sexual. They argue that it is just as important to queer normative notions of nature, as structured by the foundational nature/culture divide, as it is to queer the cultural constructions of gender and sexuality. They offer narrative descriptions of three very different queer performative events that mess up the categorical boundaries between nature and culture. The first is an ecosexual performance of queer love for the earth. The second is a performance of queer kinship between children and kangaroos. The third is performance of queer kind in an art installation of a children’s nursery. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Authors: Affrica Taylor, Mindy Blaise
Institutions: University of Canberra, Victoria University
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2551746355