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Queering identity

becoming queer in the work of cassils

Cath Lambert

pp. 131-155

Abstract

This chapter explores the work of genderqueer artist Cassils in order to address the question of what it is to be human from a queer perspective. The challenges from queer and postmodern scholarship to the "identity politics' so central to earlier activist and academic agendas have been well documented. Yet, notwithstanding these valid critiques, identity remains a powerful organizing concept in contemporary experience. These contradictory stances on identity serve as a prompt for thinking about what queer brings to our understandings of being human now and in the near future.

Publication details

Published in:

Monk Nicholas, Lindgren Mia, McDonald Sarah, Pasfield-Neofitou Sarah (2017) Reconstructing identity: a transdisciplinary approach. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 131-155

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58427-0_7

Full citation:

Lambert Cath (2017) „Queering identity: becoming queer in the work of cassils“, In: N. Monk, M. Lindgren, S. Mcdonald & S. Pasfield-Neofitou (eds.), Reconstructing identity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 131–155.