Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 38: Queer Theory
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by remus jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson.
Episode 38: In this episode, remus and Cathy introduce and discuss queer theory. remus shares the history of queer theory and how it can be used as a framework for thinking about comics and beyond!
Contact: drawingadialogue@gmail.com, Twitter
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Episode Links:
“Queer,” Siobhan B. Somerville, Keywords for American Cultural Studies, 2007
“Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” Cathy J. Cohen, GLQ, 1997 - PDF
“Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re so Paranoid You Probably Think This Essay is About You,” Eve Sedgwick, 2003, Tendencies, Duke UP - PDF
“Introduction: Queer About Comics,” Ramzi Fawaz & Darieck Scott, American Literature, 2018 - Link
Queer X-men podcasts: Cerebro, X of Words, Comic Book Queers: Legacy (Correction: Host’s name is “Evil Jeff”) and Jay and Miles XPlain the X-Men.
“Stripped to the Bone: Sequencing Queerness in the Comic Strip Work of Joe Brainard and David Wojnarowicz,” Ramzi Fawaz, ASAP/Journal, 2017 - Link
Review, “Tittychop Boobslash,” Carta Monir, The Comics Journal, 2017 - TCJ
Fawaz & Scott’s “Queer About Comics” reading list - Link
What are we reading?
Failures in Infinitives by Bernadette Mayer - Poetry
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan - Link
Devil House by John Danielle - Link
Theme song by Downtown Boys