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The preference for [the term] 'queer' represents, among other things, an aggressive impulse of generalizations; it rejects a minoritizing logic of toleration or simple political interest-representation in favor of a more thorough resistance to regimes of the normal.... For both academics and activists, 'queer' gets a critical edge by defining itself against the normal rather than the heterosexual.... The insistence on 'queer'... has the effect of pointing out a wide field of normalization, rather than simple intolerance, as the site of violence.

Michael Warner

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,

Michael Warner

Michael Warner

Michael Warner

Bio: Michael Warner is a literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes for Art Forum, The Nation, The Advocate, and The Village Voice.

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Publics and Counterpublics
The Trouble with Normal
The Letters of the Republic

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