>>1163I’m not sure a socialist queer theory is really that easy to build. The vast majority of queer theory is just garbage anyway. And queer theory isn’t inherently pro-LGBT either, since there are many queer theorists who argue that LGBT idpol must be abolished or is a straight jacket.
>>8700You can’t discuss queer theory without Foucault. History of Sexuality Vol. 1 is a must read. Foucault himself wasn’t a queer theorist, but that book is the touchstone for everything that’s come afterward.
>following the premises of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.That book is a piece of garbage armchair anthropology. Its premises and methods are largely discredited, and most of Engels claims are counter to history and actual anthropology of gender etc.
>queer Marxism I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say queer Marxism is a joke, not because I’m someACP type, but because Marxist theory cannot explain gender and sexuality very well and Marxian feminism is basically discredited at an empirical and theoretical level.
When it comes to queer theory and imperialism, you’ve got some good readings there. But you’re only showing one side of the debate. The Palestinian Christian queer theorist Joseph Massad’s essay Reorienting Desire and his chapter on sexuality and Islam in Liberalism need to be included. Massad’s argument is controversial but important: he argues that ideas like “queer” or “sexuality” and the distinction between hetero and homosexuality are not indigenous to the Middle East, that NGOs and Westernized elites spread these ideas to the region like colonial missionaries. This manufactures an excuse for imperial intervention (saving the gays) and also destroys indigenous same sex culture by coercing people to identify as gay or straight.
For trans stuff I’d highly recommend David Valentine’s Imagining Transgender: Ethnography of a Category.