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The epidemic that reshaped how time, life, and death are understood within queer communities.
What is the Aids Epidemic
This author in In a Queer Time and Space highlights the queer community as actively changing and forming time and space in modern times.
What is Judith Halberstam
LGBTQ+ is an acronym for
What is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and more
“Refers to the nonnormative logics and organizations of community, sexual identity, embodiment, and activity in space and time” (6)
What is Queer
A young transgender man who was murdered in a small town in Nebraska. (page 15)
What is Brandon Teena
This artist once sang these lyrics:
"No matter gay, straight, or bi
Lesbian, transgendered life
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born to survive"
What is Lady Gaga
"A term for those specific models of temporality that emerge within postmodernism once one leaves from the temporal grames of bourgeois reproduction and family, longevity, risk.safety, and inheritance" (6)
What is Queer Time
In "The Condition of Postmodernity", this author illustrates how ideas of space and time are shaped by the changing social relations between people (pg 6)
What is David Harvey
What is Freddie Mercury
"Refers to the place-making practices within postmodernism in which queer people engage and it also describes the new understandings of space enabled by the production of queer counterpublics" (6)
What is Queer Space
In The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics, this author argues that the premature deaths of Black queer people, poor drug users, and other marginalized groups are treated as normal because society views their lives as expendable, reinforcing systemic inequalities (pgs 3-4)
What is Cathy Cohen
The colors of the lesbian pride flag are
What is orange, white, and pink
"New forms of cultural production that emerge both in sync with and running counter to what jameson has called the “logic” of late capitalism" (6)
What is Postmodernism
In The Global Transformation of Life this author describes how humans are always and actively changing the world and society around them. (7-8)
What is Anna Tsing
Who is considered the most famous drag queen and is a television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. Also known for famous phrase; "Gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best woman win!"
What is RuPaul