We dont always identify to a group, even with intersectionality. So what do we do? Embrace not fitting into a category. Embrace your embodied failure to deconstruct social norms. Gender theorist, J. Jack Halberstam writes in their book The Queer Art of Failure that The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Judith Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one’s way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:11:00 +0000
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