Saying you are queer
Kathleen Stock on the importance of being “queer”:
And what else is a a female-led theatre company fronted by a white woman and founded in a middle-class Cambridge Sixth Form to do these days, except announce itself as “queer”? Unlike being black or disabled, saying you are queer or do queer work is a completely unverifiable proposition. It’s entirely compatible with being straight and conventional in practice – but at the same time, it apparently gives you endless cultural clout. So it would be kind of stupid not to, no? I’m not saying that anyone deliberately sets out to mislead people here. I’m saying that you probably come round to thinking of yourself that way, little by little, and the world starts to reward you for it.
Emphasis added. See also: Laurie Penny and a thousand more like her.
Maybe Doc Ronny could make a test, a beautiful test, to test for queerness.
Does this means that whatever is being done is done with an unusual, unconventional, or strange manner or result, or is this the new name for “odd jobs?”
Maybe it lives next door to sex work. “Queer work is work!”
Or,
“Sex work is work, and queer work is valid!” if it’s done by Enbies.
Kathleen Stock, again, getting to the point about “allo”s
https://twitter.com/SpiderJ/status/1518541389583327238
Stock has a wicked sense of humor, as her piece about how queer theory capturing the arts is hilarious while pointing out some pretty horrible stuff.