Queer: A Graphic History

People wouldn’t have to come out if heterosexuality wasn’t the assumed norm.

internalization and attempt to portray a “normal” fixed identity: technologies of the self

sexual subjectivity is shaped – through race and gender – in multiple ways.

The body, at the centre of a web of power relations, is measured and categorized in many different ways (gender, race, mental health, disability, age, appearance, etc.), of which sexuality is one category.

moving away from the singular understanding of lesbian and gay studies.

The economy benefits in two ways:
• High levels of productivity (generating profit for employers)
• High levels of purchasing (of products that trade on our insecurities).

We come to occupy these identities through our relationships with the world in which we reside (which offers us different identity possibilities in different times and places).

THERE ARE ALWAYS MANY POSSIBLE STORIES, RATHER THAN ONE TRUTH, AND THESE MAY BE CONTRADICTORY.

The shift to manufacturing industries meant that the success of the economy rested on the productivity of the workforce.

exploring the ways in which power operates in relation to sexuality.