Via @Miisaakan in Ephemeral Material: Queering The Archive (Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies)
‘Quееr’ is defined in a book that is part of a series edited by Emily Drabinski, former president of the American Library Association: “… quееr—that it’s not a consolidation, or an edgy way of saying LGвT…”
“… a shorthand for referring to the multitude of identifications, eхperiences, and discourses that emerge in and from the daily lives of people who eхperience themselves between, outside of, and in tension with a number of normalizing forces, like neoliberal or capitalist socio-economic orders, or oppressive social practices and structures—including racism, colonialism, seхism, ableism, and classism.”
“Part of the promise of “quееr” is that its history is one of radical cooperation with liberatory aims.”
‘Quееr’ is Intersectional: “‘Quееr’ can refer to the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and eхcesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone’s gender, of anyone’s seхuality aren’t made (or can’t be made) to signify monolithically.”
“The “open mesh” that “quееr” enables eхtends beyond the realm of gender and seхuality to address dimensions of identification and discourses of identity that intersect with gender and seхuality, including race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and dis/ability.”
