Ordnungswandel als Bibliothekspraxis? Call for Papers für das Heft „Out of Order“ sucht queere, kritische und inklusive Perspektiven auf Normen und Abweichung in Bibliotheken.
#Bibliotheken #QueerTheory #Inklusion
https://queerbrarians.de/2026/01/27/call-for-papers-out-of-order/
🧵2/2 Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others.
For me, the question is not so much finding a queer line but rather asking what our orientation toward queer moments of deviation will be. If the object slips away, if its face becomes inverted, if it looks odd, strange, or out of place, what will we do? If we feel oblique, where will we find support? A queer phenomenology would involve an orientation toward queer, a way of inhabiting the world by giving ‘‘support’’ to those whose lives and loves make them appear oblique, strange, and out of place.
Ahmed, S., 2006, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Duke Univ. Press, Durham NC
#SaraAhmed #QueerPhenomenology #QueerTheory #phenomenology #theory #orientation
🧵1/2 Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others.
To resist an impulse to make deviation a ground for queer politics is not, then, to say that it does not matter which lines we follow. It does matter. Some lines, as we know, are lines that accumulate privilege and are ‘‘returned’’ by recognition and reward. Other lines are seen as ways out of an ethical life, as deviations from the common good. Despite this, queer is not available as a line that we can follow, and if we took such a line we would perform a certain injustice to those queers whose lives are lived for different points.
#SaraAhmed #QueerPhenomenology #QueerTheory #phenomenology #theory #orientation
Ich habe dann mal mein Wochenende an der Freien Universität Berlin verbloggt: https://aktivista.net/2025/12/10/on-asexualities-ein-workshopwochenende-in-berlin/
#asexuell #aromantisch #asexuality #asexualitystudies #queertheory #philosophie #soziologie
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@ace_arovolution aka Katharina Kroschel und Annika Baumgart (auf Insta) plädierten dafür, das asexuelle und aromantische Spektrum separat zu betrachten.
Neben @aktivista präsentierten sich der Podcast Ace AROund the Cake, das Team von AroAceBildung und das nagelneue Aro and Ace Research Network: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-groups/2147/aromanticism-asexuality-research-network
So viele interessante Gespräche, so wenig Zeit. Seufz. ⬅️
#aromantic #asexual #philosophy #asexuell #aromantisch #queertheory #amatonormativity
der Veränderlichkeit und Individualität anerkennt.
📊 Hierarchie der Pathologisierung:
Pathologisches Modell → Identitätsansatz → Queer-Theorie → 11-Faktoren-Modell → Modell des geschlechtlichen Raumes (vollständig pathologiefrei).
✨ Diese Entwicklung zeigt: Von normativen, medizinisch kontrollierenden Ansätzen hin zu inklusiven, dynamischen und evolutionär begründeten Konzepten. Vielfalt statt Pathologie. Selbstbestimmung statt Normzwang.
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#TransRights #QueerTheory #JudithButler #noterf
BODY, SEXUALITY, ORIENTATION, FICTION
A body does not imply a sexuality. Or even just "sexuality" (which, in sexual beings, is a postulate and not a biological reality anyone can point to). All a body implies is a body.
But aren't all bodies sexual?
Not necessarily. Neither are they necessarily sexually reproductive since asexually reproductive species exist (in abundance, actually) demonstrating that nature does not require sex to reproduce itself.
This also suggests that non-reproductive sex is entirely legitimate in nature since sex isn't even required to reproduce as well as the fact that there have been observed cases of asexually reproductive beings taking part in apparently sexual behaviour of no worth in simply reproductive terms.
The picture, in general, is thus one of an observed diversity of behaviours and outcomes in which no concept of a fixed "sexuality" makes sense. (Bruce Bagemihl describes this as "biological exuberance".) Much easier to suggest that living beings that have sexual behaviours can have, or develop, sexual preferences and forget "orientations" (fixed and hardwired existences) entirely.
Unfortunately, however, in the 1860s assimilationist gay rights advocates decided that "homosexuality" was a fixed, biological reality in an attempt to gain acceptance in society (which, of course, they should always have). This created the notion of a sexual "orientation" or sexual identity generally for if you invent the homosexual then you must also invent the heterosexual too at the same time. At that point people simply acquired a sexuality overnight - although this had not been a general belief before such times. Now, over one hundred and fifty years later, people will (sometimes angrily) insist that they "identify" with or as a sexuality when sexual orientation is an entirely invented concept.
It all shows, if nothing else, that how and what you believe creates the sexual reality you imagine to exist within - and affects your behaviour (including your feelings) accordingly.
See also: gender nihilism, queer theory, queer nihilism
#queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #sexuality #education #queertheory #gender #gendernihilism #ace #anarchy #identity
Bringing queerness to butoh. To dance beyond the conformity of bodies. Against the culture of hiding physical abnormalities and disabilities and the cult of beautiful and aligned bodies, that is practiced by many butoh choreographers.
#butoh #queertheory #bodyshaming #queerness #criticaltheory #butohtothepeople
Wie passt Monique Wittigs materialistischer Feminismus mit Queer Theory zusammen? In 4 digitalen Sitzungen (ab dem 23.10) diskutieren wir zentrale Texte und fragen: Wo liegen Gemeinsamkeiten und wo Reibungspunkte?
Online-Lesekreis für junge Menschen (16-27 Jahre), Teilnahme kostenlos und keine Vorkenntnisse nötig!
🗓️4 Termine: 23.10., 30.10., 6.11., 13.11.
⏰ jeweils 19:00-20:30 Uhr
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«Теория образа» это тоже эзопов алиас для квир-теории? — https://t.me/artsfera_org/3639?single #words #murky #circumbendibus #Aesopianlanguage #queertheory #AndreyParshikov
"The human potential for incredibly precise classifications has been demonstrated in multiple arenas; why then do we settle for a paucity of classifications when it comes to gender?"
J. Halberstam in "Female Masculinities", 1998
#gender #goodquestion #queertheory
Philosophisches Fundstück:
"Particular possibilities for acting exist at every moment, and these changing possibilities entail a responsibility to intervene in the world’s becoming, to contest and rework what matters and what is excluded from mattering."
Hoffnung und Verantwortung nach Karen Barad, "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter", 2003
#philosophy #ethics #queertheory #hopepunk
"The bathroom, as we know it, actually represents the crumbling edifice of gender in the twentieth century. The frequency with which gender-deviant "women" are mistaken for men in public bathrooms suggests that a large number of feminine women spend a large amount of time and energy policing masculine women."
J. Halberstam in "Female Masculinities", 1998. 27 years later we're still debating bathrooms and women are still policing other women's bodies.
#gender #fuckgender #queertheory
Can you have queer theory, and a set qualitative methodology?
https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/queer-theory-and-qualitative-methods-an-unlikely-marriage/
Our latest blog post is on using Queer Theory in qualitative research
https://www.quirkos.com/blog/post/queer-theory-and-qualitative-methods-an-unlikely-marriage/
#Introduction Moving over from @BabyFn0rd@23.social 'tis my intro blurb :neocat_laugh_nervous: .
data sheet
caveat emptor
If you're transphobic or a transmisogynist, please go forth and multiply right away, thank you.
Small talk isn't my cup of tea but, above/below topics and theory generally are.
I rather read theory than manuals. Love/hate THT, SMD, µC. Part-time best grrl at the private Betty Fn0rd DIY clinic: Providing loving care for lab gear, vintage studio electronics, synths, drum machines, obsolete media, two-stroke engines among other kinks.
Updated 01/2026
One nice thing that happened today: I finally got around to reading more of Judith Butler's "Who's afraid of Gender". So far, I like it a lot. (I must admit, Philosophy Tube inspired me to read it.) It's uncomfortable confronting all the hate against queer lives, but her analysis is so cutting, and it's an easy read compared to how I remember "Gender Trouble".
When “Straight” Isn’t So Straight: Understanding Why Some Men Have Sex with Men
Not all men who sleep with men identify as gay or even bisexual—and that’s not a contradiction.
