Diverse Visions of Queer Utopias
Imagining queer utopias through the works of Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, Jose Esteban Munoz, and others. Explore the concepts of failure as success, utopian performance, and individual contributions to achieving a queer utopia.
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CONCLUSION: Imagining Utopias in Queer Studies Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004) Lacan: the sinthome: experience of sexual pleasure knowingly divorced from any connection to future children Bruce Henderson, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries, Harrington Park Press 2019
Failure as Queer Success Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (2011): Three maxims for queer art of failure Resist mastery Privilege the na ve or nonsensical (stupidity) Suspect memorialization Bruce Henderson, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries, Harrington Park Press 2019
Utopian Performance and Queer Possibilities Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia (2009) That all utopias are doomed to fail is no reason not to pursue them Jill Dolan, Utopia in Performance (2005) Spaces where queer people perform utopian moves Bruce Henderson, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries, Harrington Park Press 2019
Finally Whatever your own identity, what is your vision of queer utopia and how can you contribute to (trying to) achieve it? Bruce Henderson, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries, Harrington Park Press 2019
