Speaker Note
Queer theory is defined as a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. It challenges “essentialist notions of homosexuality and heterosexuality within the mainstream discourse and instead posits an understanding of sexuality that emphasizes shifting boundaries, ambivalences, and cultural constructions that change depending on historical and cultural context.” (Queer Theory, 2016) “To queer” means to consider “normal” sexuality as strange, to reconsider the notion heterosexuality as a natural social and sexual norm and advocate the notion of “non-straightness,” protesting agaisnt the hegemony of “straight” ideology. ...
