Queer's Final Frontier
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2015
Abstract
"As Western homoerotic desire becomes increasingly sanitized, acceptable, benign, commodified, co-opted, and contained under the aegises of consumerism, liberal pluralism, and gay marriage, it seems to me that the resilience of transgender panics across a panoply of social and political divides demonstrates the continuing centrality of the transgender/cisgender divide in contemporary culture (to reformulate the famous opening line of Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet)—this may be where “queer’s” bottom/foundational line now lies."
Recommended Citation
Barnard, Ian. “Queer’s Final Frontier?” Forum contribution for “Queer and Now” special issue of The Writing Instructor: A Networked Journal and Digital Community for Writers and Teachers of Writing March 2015. writinginstructor.com. 6 manuscript pages. Web.
Comments
This article was originally posted in The Writing Instructor: A Networked Journal and Digital Community for Writers and Teachers of Writing in 2015.