Queer State(s) Bibliography
The links below were compiled by Marcella Mendez (BFA Studio Art, 2011) to aid in research for the exhibition Queer State(s). They are meant to function as an annotated bibliography that begins to scratch the surface of the numerous fields of scholarship, activism, and artistic practice that revolve around queer discourse. Some of the texts listed can be described as “queer theory,” intersecting with ideas such as race and class. Some are more personal narratives that take the form of a memoir or biography. Some of these links point to a complex history of political activism against homophobic or heteronormative systems of power. But like the exhibition and its related programs, this list in no way is meant as a definitive overview of LGBTQ history or theory in Texas or beyond.
Academic Theory
- Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. Halperin eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1993)
- Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006)
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (New York: Routledge, 1990)
- Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (New York: Routledge, 1993)
- Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004)
- Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003)
- Martin Duberman, A Queer World (New York, New York University Press, 1997)
- Lisa Moore, Sister Acts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
- Jose Esteban Munoz, Disidentifications (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
- Jose Esteban Muniz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, Epistemology of the Closet (Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles Press, 1990)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003)
- Riki Wilchins, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2004)
- Nikkie Sulivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (New York: New York University Press, 2003)
Art
- Dara Greenwald and Josh Macphee, Signs of Change (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2010)
- Terri Griffith, “Gregg Bordowitz and David Getsy on ‘Queer,’” Episode 91, Bad at Sports, podcast audio, May 27, 2007
- Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, curated by Jonathan Katz and David Ward, 1998, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- In a Different Light, curated by Lawrence Rinder and Nayland Blake, 1995, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Phillip Kennicott, “‘Fire Man: Wojnarowicz, Censored by Smithsonian, Sounded an Alarm in Dire Times,” Washington Post, December 10, 2010
- ¿Y QUÉ? – Queer Art Made in Texas at Landmark Arts, curated by Harmony Hammond, 2009, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Memoirs and (Contemporary) Lived Experiences
- Dominika Bednarska, "Passing Last Summer," in Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Berkeley: Seal, 2006): 71-82
- Elizabeth Clare, "Losing Home," in Queerly Classed, ed. Susan Raffo (New York: South End Press, 1997): 15-28
- Leslie Feinberg, "We are all works in progress," in Transliberation: Beyond Pink and Blue, by Leslie Feinberg (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998): 1-13
- Kate Orndorff, ed., BiLives: Bisexual women tell their stories (Tuscon, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1999)
- Kata Orndorff, “Rosa,” in BiLives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories, ed. Kata Orndorff (Tuscon, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1999): 66-76
Biographies
- John D’emilio, The Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003)
- Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, 1993)
- Sylvia Rivera, “Queens in Exile: The Forgotten Ones," in GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, eds. Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins (New York: Alyson Books, 2002): 67-85
"Intersectionality” Theory
Class and Capitalism:
- Norah Carlin, "The roots of gay oppression,” International Socialism Journal, no. 42, (Spring 1989)
- John D’emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharan Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983): 100-113
- Lisa Duggan, “Crossing the Line: The Brandon Teena Case and the Social Psychology of Working-Class Resentment,” New Labor Forum 13, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 37-44
- Lisa Jervis, “If Women Ruled the World, Nothing Would Be Different,” PM Press
- JOMO, "Queer Liberation is Class Struggle,” Gathering Forces Blog, January 8, 2010
- Joanna Kadi, “Homophobic Workers or Elitist Queers?” by Joanna Kadi, in Queerly Classed, ed. Susan Raffo (New York: South End Press, 1997): 29-42
- Maria Mies, Preface to Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (London: Palgrave MacMillion, 1998)
- Sherri Wolf, "The roots of gay oppression," International Socialist Review, no. 37 (September-October 2004)
- Sherry Wolf, Sexuality and Socialism (Chicago: Haymarket, 2009)
Race:
- bell hooks, From Margin to Center (London: Pluto Press, 2000)
- Enoch H. Page and Matt U. Richardson, “On the Fear of Small Numbers: A 21st Century Prolegomenon of the US Black Transgender Experience,” in Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies by Juan Battle and Sandra L. Barnes (New Jersey, Rutgers University Press: 1999): 57-81
- Cherrie Moraga, "Queer Aztlan: The Reformation of Chicano Tribe" in The Material Queer: A LesBiGay Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Donald E. Moroton (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996): 244-238
- Andrea Smith, “Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonalism,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16, no. 2 (2010): 41-68
- Nikki Sulivan, "Queer Race," in A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (New York: NYU Press, 2003): 57-75
The Body
Trans* Liberation
- Kate Bornstein and Bear Bergman, eds., Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Berkeley, CA: Seal, 2010)
- Sherilyn Connelly, “The Big Reveal” in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein and Bear Bergman (Berkeley, CA: Seal, 2010): 76-82
- Emi Koyama, "Transfeminist Manifesto,” eminism.org
- TransGriot, "How can we contribute to society if you won't hire us?" TransGriot Blog, December 8, 2009
Separatism
- Lisa Duggan, "Making it perfectly queer" Socialist Review 22, no. 1: 215-231
- Emi Koyama, “Michigan Womyn's Festival and Camp Trans” eminism.org
- Emi Koyama, "Whose Feminism is it anyway?" eminism.org
Sexual Liberation, Pornography and Puritanism
Love and the Origin of Family
- Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (New York: Autonomedia, 2004)
- Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
- Faith Wilding, “Useless Gender: An Immodest Proposal for Racial Justice,” in Yes Species!, edited by subRosa and James Pei-Mun Tsang (Chicago and Pittsburgh: Sabrosa Books, 2005), 49-59
Queer Organization History
Old Left:
- Peggy Dennis, "Response to Ellen K. Trimberger,” Feminist Studies 5, no. 3 (Fall 1979): 451-461
- John D’emilio, "Dreams Deferred: The Birth and Betrayal of America’s First Gay Liberation Movement," in Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University, by John D'emilio (London: Psychology Press, 1992): 17-56
1960s-1970s:
- Stephan L. Cohen, Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail (London: Routledge, 2008)
- Combahee River Collective, "Combahee River Collective Statement," April 1977
- Leslie Feinberg, “Leslie Feinberg Interviews Sylvia Rivera: I’m Glad I Was in the Stonewall Riot,” Workers.org, 1998
- Jessi Gan, “Still at the Back of the Bus: Sylvia Rivera’s Struggle,” Centro Journal 19, no. 1 (2007): 124-139
- Thomas Harrison and Joanne Landy, “Symposium on Gays and the Left: Part One,” New Politics no. 45
- Thomas Harrison and Joanne Landy, “Symposium on Gays and the Left: Part Two,” New Politics no. 46
- Joan Nestle, Preface to A Restricted Country (Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, 1987)
- Sojourner Truth Organization, "In Partial Payment," 1981
Post-1980s:
- ACT UP Oral History Project
- Liz Highleymanm, “Radical Queers or Queer Radicals: Queer Activism in the Global Justice Movement,” in Act Up to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community-Building in the Era of Globalization, edited by Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk (New York: Verso, 2002)
- Pauline Rankin, "Sexualities and National Identities: Re-Imagining Queer Nationalism," Queer Nation Journal of Canadian Studies (Summer 2000)
Contemporary Revolutionary Organizations:
Anarchists:
- anrcha-queer, “Response to ‘Queer Liberation and Anarchist Communism,” Boston Indymedia, June 27, 2008
- North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, “Queer Liberation and Anarchist Communism,” anarkismo.net, June 17, 2008
- Tom Thompson, “Envisioning an Anarchist Alternative to Queer Political Co-Optation,” lespantheresroses.org
Libertarian Communists:
Maoists:
- Revolutionary Communist Party USA, “On the Position on Homosexuality in the New Draft Programme,” 2001
Trotskyists:
- Graham Shaw, “Good Reason to Be Wary of Marriage,” May 28, 2008
- Sherry Wolf, “Guess Who Opposes Gay Marriage?,” Socialistworker.org, May 22, 2008
- Sherry Wolf, “Which Side Are You On?,” Socialistworker.org, May 30, 2008
Gay Marriage
- John D’emilio, "Can the Left Ignore Gay Liberation," New Politics 12, no. 1 (Summer 2008)
- John D’emilio, “The Marriage Fight is Setting Us Back,” in Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, edited by Ryan Conrad (Oakland, CA: Against Equality Press, 2010): 37-42
- Kenyon Farrow, “Is Gay Marriage Anti Black???” in Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, edited by Ryan Conrad (Oakland, CA: Against Equality Press, 2010): 21-31
- Rickke Mananzala and Dean Spade, “The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance,” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 5, no. 1 (March 2008)
- Yasmin Nair, “Who’s Illegal Now? Immigration, Marriage and the Violence of Inclusion,” in Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, edited by Ryan Conrad (Oakland, CA: Against Equality Press, 2010): 51-58
- Benjamin H. Shepard, "The Queer-Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts," Monthly Review 53, no. 1 (May, 2001)
- Sharon Smith, “Mistaken Identity--Or Can Identity Politics Liberate the Oppressed?” International Socialism Journal 62 (Spring 1994)
Queer Blogs
- Against Equality
- Angry Brown Butch
- Beyond Masculinity
- bklyn boihood
- Charlie the Unicorn, Ace Detective
- Emi Koyama
- fatima
- Feministe
- Forward/FWD
- Matthilda Berstein Sycamore
- OP Magazine guest bloggers
- Passionate Outbursts
- Queer State(s)
- Queer Today
- Queers Without Borders
- TransGriot
- We’re Hir We’re Queer
Zine Catalogues
Other Resources
- American Friends Service Committee, “Queer Immigration Reading List”
- Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (London: Psychology Press, 1998)
- Charlie the Unicorn, Ace Detective, “The Layperson’s Guide to Understanding the Trans* Experience and Identity,” Charlie the Unicorn, Ace Detective Blog, April 30, 1011
- People With a History
- Queer Theory Database