THE Q WORD by Laís Vasconcelos

What is QUEER?

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-09-20 04:04:31 UTC

If you are as curious as me, you have two options:

Google it
Keep reading this text :)

So, in the dictionary QUEER means weird; strange; odd; But that’s not the meaning I’m interested in now because it can also be an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or cisgender.
Gay is traditionally when someone is attracted to a person of the same sex — but that's not always the case. Homosexuality may mean that, but many people associate the word "gay" strictly with men, while the word "lesbian" is strictly used for women. As a whole(bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender) however, they all fit into the queerumbrella. You can imagine it as a community of terms inside a whole other term.

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-09-20 04:15:32 UTC

GAY X QUEER

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-09-20 04:17:35 UTC

AFTER ALL, ARE WE REALLY THAT QUEER?

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-09-20 04:21:40 UTC

Comments

depaulabrito — 2018-09-20 18:46:35 UTC

Very relevant topic... have you worked with this theme on your master research?

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-12-05 02:11:16 UTC

Unlike many people believe, Literature and Poetry are not somewhere everything is possible. We’ve always had Queer poetry like this poem by Frank Bidart written in 1973. But it’s been always part of a minor poetry, nothing compared to E. E. Cummings or T. S. Elliot. However we’ve been coming out of this closet and there’s still many battles.

Queer

Frank Bidart, 1973

Lie to yourself about this and you will
forever lie about everything.

Everybody already knows everything

so you can
lie to them. That's what they want.

But lie to yourself, what you will

lose is yourself. Then you
turn into them.

                 *

For each gay kid whose adolescence

was America in the forties or fifties
the primary, the crucial

scenario

forever is coming out—
or not. Or not. Or not. Or not. Or not.

                 *

Involuted velleities of self-erasure.

                 *

Quickly after my parents
died, I came out. Foundational narrative

designed to confer existence.

If I had managed to come out to my
mother, she would have blamed not

me, but herself.

The door through which you were shoved out
into the light

was self-loathing and terror.

                 *

Thank you, terror!

You learned early that adults' genteel
fantasies about human life

were not, for you, life.  You think sex

is a knife
driven into you to teach you that.

CRIPTANDRO: A lésbica aprisionada nas páginas de uma revista masculina

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-12-05 02:37:00 UTC

I was supposed to chose an academic paper for my Padlet. Although I don’t have the intention to flash me around I picked my master’s dissertation abstract because it represents the begging and the first outcome of my interest in Queer Theory. In this study, I searched about a novel called “Eu sou uma lésbica” written by the Brazilian author Cassandra Rios and its publication issues.

ABSTRACT

This work aims to analyze the relationship between the homoerotic writing and the "negotiation with the reader" in Eu sou uma lésbica by the Brazilian writer Cassandra Rios (1932-2002). Even though the author had been known for her daring and her plots with homoerotic characters during the military dictatorship, it can be noticed some heteronormative marks and negative associations, such as pejorative names and even criminal involvements related to their characters. The sexual orientation of the lesbian characters is represented several times as an attraction for the men, the old male fetish, besides the pejorative names used to treat them and the insistence on the stereotypes of the lesbian as the masculinized woman. Since the novel was first published as a feuilleton in the men's magazine Status in 1980, this research aims to investigate if the heteronormative marks and the pejorative content used to make reference to the homoerotic characters were used by the lesbian authoress concerning the audience
Keywords: Brazilian literature, homoeroticism, Cassandra Rios, Semiotics.

Feel free to read the full dissertation if you want to :)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/136XQvL1iOVuKYg8uzYCXm248ssd7Wpnc/view?usp=drivesdk

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-12-05 02:43:31 UTC

Queer Studies | Admissions

Like most of people I’ve never thought that it could be possible to study Queer Literature or if there have been such area. But, as you can see on this University of Oregon website, there are many universities developing their Queer Studies departments with many professors studying the topic in a lot of different approaches.

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-12-05 02:48:36 UTC

'It's great to be niche. It also sucks': inside the grind of queer publishing | Media | The Guardian

Although it’s interesting to research and publish about Queer topics, it may also be very tricky. In spite of many achievements due to the Queer resistance we’re still considered aberrations by conservative people and so as the subjects concerned to us, specially in academia and literature.

laisvasconcelos_cf — 2018-12-05 02:52:58 UTC

It’s not usual to see Queer movies on the cinemas around or running for important prizes but we have some remarkable ones once in a while like “Milk”, “Brokeback Mountain” or “Blue is the warmest color” and “Tomboy” belongs to this category. If you want a great opportunity to put yourself in someone’s shoes, watch it and then check if you agree with this review!