[lbo-talk] Queer Theory, was Re: Sex, Kink and Ick

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Sep 23 09:08:43 PDT 2004


MRDelucia at aol.com wrote:


>I feel as though much of the recent debate over bdsm (or just Sado-Masochism) is a good chance to approach the topic of queer theory. I think this is an area which needs to be much more substantively thought through by the left, as sexuality is indeed one area which (relatively) has been neglected by Marx-inspired theorists.
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>[For the following, I will be drawing on the writing of one of the foremost
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I think identity politics were a huge wrong turn. I have no problem with psychoanalysis -- except when badly done or used to enforce submission to "normative" practices --

...but I am puzzled why in rejecting identification as a mode of being one feels the need for the label of "queer". Why do I have to be anything or call myself anything in order to critique a political strategy?

Joanna



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