#queer methods

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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MY WRITING MAKES IT SO OTHERS CAN FEEL SEEN: A QUEER PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF LGBTQ+ COLLEGE STUDENTS AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCES IN AN OUT-OF-SCHOOL POETRY WORKSHOP

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

This dissertation explores the affective experiences of LGBTQ+ undergraduates in an out-of-school poetry workshop. Through the lens of queer and affect theories, the study asks the following research questions: 1) How does reading and writing poetry foster community in an LGBTQ+ out-of-school poetry workshop? (2) How can participation in an out-of-school poetry workshop with members who identify as LGBTQ+ engender a love of writing in queer students? (3) How do LGBTQ+ college students’ affective experiences manifest in a queer out-of-school poetry workshop? Using queer phenomenological methods (Ahmed, 2006) to engage with such data sources as audio and video class recordings, semi structured interviews, field notes, memos, and student writing, the study explores the way that two self-identified LGBTQ undergraduate students came to understand their writing and experiences in a queer out-of-school writing workshop space. Specifically, it engages with the ways young people interact with texts and writing prompts that center queer topics and issues, and how reorienting a space in which queer bodies and subjects are made visible can lead to increased engagement, empathy, and confidence in literacy skills

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If you're wondering what this all is and means... it's nothing. It is and means literally nothing.

"But surely..." you may be thinking. No. These aren't real things, this is literally not anything. It's no more real than a $3 bill. From top to bottom, it's fake.

[bodhrancomedy]

I also refuse to method act because I get a lot of abused and mentally unwell characters and I like being mentally stable :)

[charcubed]

do I think that Dean Winchester knows he's bisexual? Yes. Do I think he knows he wants to fuck Cas? Also yes.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Ballroom dancing isn’t actually particularly queer coded in fact it plays more into tradition and has very clearly defined gendered roles associated with it - male leader - female - follower.

And that’s what’s interesting about it being the activity Eddie was signed up for by Helena, especially in relation to Eddie’s incoming queer arc. Eddie was forced to grow up too fast and to step into the role of ‘man of the house’ by Helena because Ramon was by all accounts an absent father - hero complex provides us with plenty of canon information about Eddie being pushed into a husband/father role at a very young age and being told to man up and not to cry etc - machismo in action.

Helena sending him to ballroom dancing classes is likely because it was a way of reinforcing those traditional gendered stereotypes held by wider society and particularly in Latinx culture that the Diaz’s are entrenched in.

It becomes an especially interesting choice if it’s something Helena did because as well as it reinforcing gender stereotypes, she could see that her son was queer and wanted a way of trying to push him towards girls/women - encouraging him into straightness by surrounding him with girls as generally classes are female dominated and away from activities that would have him surrounded by boys/men.

It’s not about ballroom dancing being queer it’s about trying to prevent him from being queer through the structure of ballroom dancing.

[k-wame]

actors are built different lol

[marzipanandminutiae]

Sometimes I'll be having a perfectly normal day and then get blindsided out of nowhere by the "Louisa May Alcott was definitely 100% a binary trans man and if you call her a woman or use she/her pronouns for her, you're transphobic" Hot Take

why couldn't that asshole have just stuck to writing racist South Park (yes, really; this person even filed the serial numbers off one story and got it published) fanfiction and left queer/trans history to the people who have an ounce of nuanced thinking or interest in the broader context of what they read

[gauntlyt]

lmao so I'm up on the king's scaffold and the executioner leans in just before he raises the axe to take my head off and whispers that he's always had a crush on me and thinks it's a shame he'll only get to hack up such a pretty neck once. but the joke's on him cause I'm wearing a resurrection amulet and I can't seem to stop getting caught corrupting the nuns in the local convent, so I'll definitely be back

[kim-irl]

Kim Craig, Untitled, Dec. 2023,

Velvet, steel rods, lace, ribbon, beads, plasma cut steel, syringes, hair.

[yarrowleef-babbles]

been hearing rumors that the "i'm always straight" lines may have been cut from the GN and IF that is true, I expect everyone will be super mad about that--and ngl i'd mourn the loss of it too because it has become iconic to me

But. i can't believe i'm playing devils advocate for this, BUT it is not entirely unreasonable for an adaptation of this work to decide it does not want to reference Ronan's sexuality yet......coming to terms with his sexuality is (one) part of his arc in the 2nd book. Adam Parrish being ~the 2nd secret he doesn't want to admit to himself~ , Ronan's catholic guilt homoerotic nightmares and the like, all characterize his sexuality as something he might vaguely be aware of but seriously struggles to openly admit. I don't think he even uses the word gay or any other word to describe himself in the whole series? (unless I'm forgetting something?)

So, idk, it's not unreasonable to want the (hypothetical) audience to also not be aware of it until Ronan is forced to directly grapple with his identity next book.

i think this is one of those things that has become very dear to the fandom over time, but if i look at it objectively without my feelings, i just.....i do understand why someone could conceivably decide that this off-handed bitchy "he's gay btw" joke is not of dire importance for the sanctity of the story 😭 in the 'pros don't outweigh the cons' sort of way....

[wingscription]

hey! I just found your blog, very into the stuff you post. I'd love to know a specific fantasy or preferred treatment you'd give to a brat. totally asking for a friend......

getting brat questions is always so interesting, because i'm not much of a brat tamer myself, despite knowing how they work. which might be why most are typically pretty disappointed with my reactions, or rather, lack thereof.

truly, it depends on the circumstance. if you were trying to get me to give chase, i would simply let you run. brats are so driven by instant gratification that no reaction is far more disarming than any other one. if the goal is to rile me up, you're shit out of luck. i'm not one to lose my temper, and i don't tend to lean towards brute force as my method of control.

one thing brats don't have, is patience. luckily, i do. regardless of instance, brats always come crawling back in due time, and that would be that. if you're looking for punishment or traditional acts of domination in response to bratting, i'm not the dom to dish them out.

[mswyrr]

Since I keep seeing the same talking point, I wanted to address it:

Yes, even things like ages can be unknown about famous historical figures! You can get can overview of reasons why at this r/askhistorians thread

Hotd fandom is full of people who don't know about historiography in general, but specifically for the kind of medieval text the book is meant to imitate, holding forth on how obvious historical fact is when that's simply not so.

And as I've said in a prior meta - yes, people in queerphobic societies have actively and consistently erased evidence of queer people and their love.

Now, it would be artistically valid to make changes in an adaptation even if none of this were the case. But it is. It's entirely possible that records were unclear due to time and the chaos of war or other factors. And that it just seemed obvious to people, as the story was handed down, that the dowager queen, Rhaenyra's stepmother, *must* have been older than her, even though she wasn't.

What we know of the past is often very sketchy. It's a careful process of putting clues together to make best guesses in many particulars. No trained historian would look at a medieval account like the kind the book imitates and simply believe it as fact.

Each subfield of history has specific tools and practices for analyzing materials to come up with the best understanding - and then historians challenge and rework those understandings over time as they reevaluate evidence and find new materials!

[spookdvde]

ouguhhtj transfem t4t maxley save me…

[crookedghosts]

I JUST REALIZED THAT ANNABETH/LEO'S FRIENDSHIP IS SO FUCKING ALEX/NORA (book!rwrb, not movie!rwrb, even tho kinda) CODED. AND THEN HENRY/JASON ALREADY HAS A PERCY BESTIE... WHO IS SO SMITTRN WITH NORA/ANNABETH....I NEED TO WRITE THIS FIC SO BAD.

[thecryptkeeper]

anyway so here’s jennifer doyle’s essay “queer wallpaper” that i think deserves a read after hearing that news

[scarletoverkillgf]

when i turn 19 i have to find a 23 old gay person and i’ll know they’re the one

[ingravinoveritas]

So last night was the GLAAD Media Awards ceremony, and it has come to light that the winner of the award for Outstanding Comedy Series was...Ted Lasso.

Now, I know next to nothing about Ted Lasso, but from what I have heard about it, there is no part of me that would hear "Ted Lasso" and automatically think of it as a queer show...

And when I look at this list of nominees, I see at least three other shows that would have been excellent winners--especially Good Omens 2 and OFMD, both of which are arguably overtly, loudly queer (albeit in entirely different ways).

Both contained extraordinary performances from their lead actors. Both showed us relationships that we came to care so deeply about and feel represented by, which is particularly notable by the lack of representation that has traditionally existed for those relationships. And both have forever changed the lives of their cast members, who seem to have found themselves in ways they never expected as a result of being in these shows.

So I'm going to need someone to throw out some citations/references or just explain to me like I'm 5 why TL won this award over everything else, because the math is very not mathing here...