What is Queer Studies?
Queer Studies is an academic discipline that focuses not only on LGBTQ+ experiences, histories, and perspectives, but more broadly on the social production and regulation of sexuality and gender. One of the most dynamic and multi-disciplinary fields in academia, Queer Studies “attends to the ways that sexuality and other axes of social difference—race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality and so on—inflect and transform each other.”1 Drawing upon the interconnected and interdisciplinary fields of Feminist studies, LGBTQ+ studies, Sexuality studies, Disability studies, Transgender studies, and Queer theory, it interrogates both the ways that culture regulates sexuality and the ways in which sexuality influences social institutions, artistic expressions, and political discourses.
1 Hall, Donald E. and A. Jagose. (2013). The Routledge Queer Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, p. xvi.
