queer – Martin Stringer Quartet

Listening and Learning?

Another speaker, a local Methodist minister I think, commenting on the recent riots in Northern Ireland following the violent attack by a Somali individual, noted that he had spoken to a fifteen-year-old youth involved in the riots. This youth had apparently told him that he was rioting because ‘they are slitting our throats and nobodyContinue reading “Listening and Learning?”

Coming Out and Coming Out Again

When asked to write about my ‘coming out story’ shortly after taking up the position of PVC at Swansea University eight years ago, my immediate response was to ask ‘which one?’ I have perhaps been lucky, I never needed a big coming out event. Being gay is something I have always taken for granted andContinue reading “Coming Out and Coming Out Again”

The Future of Queer

Tasmin Spargo wrote a wonderful little book, back in 1999 tracing the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work and what was then current queer theory. It is an excellent analysis, tracing the positive and negative aspects of Foucault’s work on queer theorists writing at the end of the last century. That, however, was over twenty yearsContinue reading “The Future of Queer”