Queers Read This! Newsletters

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  • Why Queers Read This!?

    Visit our FAQ page for a little background on our newsletter’s title (great trivia knowledge).

  • Queer Highlights

    The contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals have historically been erased and underplayed either through the policing of literature, sanitization of movements, or revisionist history. With our newsletter's queer highlights, we hope to introduce you to these academic, political, and literary queer works.

    Below are the highlights so far, feel free to use them as 'jumping off points' for further reading in your journey through queer fields. Alternatively, our Queer Theory page lists them (+ more!) by category for better browsing.

    The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam QRT! 6 What's The Use? by Sara Ahmed QRT! 7
    The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House by Audre Lorde QRT! 9 Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens by Cathy J. Cohen QRT! 10
    Feminist Theory Reader by Cheryl L. Clarke QRT! 11 Bio/Necropolitics (Part I): Control of Death QRT! 12
    Bio/Necropolitics (Part II): Control of Livelihood QRT! 14 Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant QRT! 15
    Affectivity: Worth by Emotional Proxy QRT! 16 Gay First, Deaf Second: Mitigating Fractured Movements QRT! 17
    Performing Gender (Part I): Sex, Drag, and Male Roles QRT! 18 Living a Double Rainbow: Queerness & Neurodiversity QRT! 19
    Performing Gender (Part II): The Politics and Poetics of Camp QRT! 21 QRT: reeuQ yhW QRT! 24
    STAR: Bitch on Wheels Speech QRT! 25 Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz QRT! 26
    La Frontera by Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa QRT! 27 Performing Gender (Part III): Drag Race Utopia QRT! 29
    My Words to Victor Frankenstein by Susan Stryker QRT! 31 Queering Culture (Part I): Wendy Guevara QRT! 34
    My Partner is Trans!: Cis-Trans Relationships QRT! 35 Ebika Bya ba Kuchu mu Buganda: Leilah Babirye QRT! 38
    The Myth of Iphis and Ianthe QRT! 40 Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir Puar QRT! 42
    Radical Self Care: Vital Political Warfare QRT! 44 Performing Gender (Part IV): Untucking Drag Race QRT! 47
    Disability Justice (Part I): Intro to Crip Theory by Robert McRuer QRT! 49 Disability Justice (Part II): Disability, Gender, and Fashion QRT! 50
    Queering Ethnography: The Hijra Community QRT! 51 QRT: Queer Wrath & Inheritance QRT! 52

  • Navigating Our Newsletters

    Because we are nerd emojis and compulsively organize everything, our newsletters are structured to help you find the content you are looking for and skip our silly goofy tangents if you so choose. Here is a sample newsletter with short descriptions of our regular sections, hope it helps!

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