Word: queerness
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...echoing her father's eventual demise by being run over by a truck from that same company. Gradually, as Bechdel adds so many layers of history and nuance to her father's personality he changes from Ogre to tragic casualty of self-denial. Conflating the worlds of personal history, "queer studies," and literary criticism, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home can be enjoyed as any of those, or just as a smart, insightful, funny/sad story about growing...
...Queer students at Harvard and their supporters let actions speak louder than words yesterday when they participated in the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) National Day of Silence. According to GLSEN’s website, as many as 500,000 students across the country took part in this year’s protest, intended to raise awareness of the bigotry and prejudice the queer community faces. Participants take a vow of silence from 9 am to 5 pm, and bear cards reading, “Please understand my reasons for not speaking today...My deliberate...
...more brick, and an especially important one, to the edifice of Darwinian evolution-and at the same time puts the so-called theory of intelligent design into even greater question than it already faces. That would be true if only because any designer who deliberately made such a queer fish would have been more of a practical joker than anything else. But it also demonstrates that while evolution has plenty of missing bits of evidence, they keep showing up all the time to strengthen it. Evolution is, as ID supporters love to say, "just" a theory. It also happens...
...central to my queer Asian experience that there were other queer Asians around,” Weijie Huang says...
...QAF—which she hopes will be a place “where queer Asian identities are not in the background but in the center focus”—is creating an unprecedented space for queer Asians by marrying the two identities, Ana Huang says...