Can writing - the fixing and rendering static of our experiences - ever be queer? I mean, sure...but why is (queer) writer’s block still so all consuming? 

In this episode we dip our toes into queer theory’s subjectivity debate before discussing how we might expand the ‘I’ in personal narrative in ways that problematise normative modes of writing about our ‘own’ experiences. Inspired by feminist new materialism and Deleuzian assemblage theory, this episode grapples with the possibility (or, perhaps, necessity) of queer writing as resistance. 

References: 

Barad, K. (2007) Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of meaning and matter. Durham: Duke University Press. 

Barker, M.J. (2020). ‘On Queer Writing’ Available at: https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/on-queer-writing/

Berlant, L. (2022) On the Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press. 

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1980) A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

Fassin, D. (2014) ‘True Life, Real Lives: Revisiting the Boundaries between ethnography and fiction’ American Ethnologist. 41(1) 

Febos, M. (2022) Body Work: The radical power of personal narrative. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 

Lorde, A. (2007) Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. Available online: https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf

Ruti, M. (2017) The ethics of opting out: Queer theory’s defiant subjects. Columbia: Columbia University Press. 

Wilson, E. in Ryan, K. (ed). (2022). So long as you write: women on writing. Dear Damsels. 

Winterson, J. (1992) Oranges are not the only fruit. London: Vintage Books. 

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