Queer, There and Everywhere by Sarah Prager
#LouderForThePeopleInTheBack
But when we make assumptions about any historical figure, we rewrite the past without even knowing it.p1
The version of history we learn in school puts a straight cisgender mask on almost everyone. p1
Recognizing the world's rich history of queerness helps reduce homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, and helps welcome queer identities to the mainstream with love and acceptance. p2
Why homosexuals were one of the colonists' most popular scapegoats remains unclear. It wasn't just a bad interpretation of the Bible, since colonial states didn't outlaw greediness and other things Christianity forbids. p8
It matters that we say and demonstrate how queerness itself is as old as time, because people still find it counterintuitive to their conceptions of history. p213
Thinking about the amount of progress yet to be accomplished can be overwhelming, but when we put it in the context of all of time, we see that we've been going in the right direction for hundreds of years and that queer people have always accomplished the unimaginable. p214-215
And as we see in all these transformative lives, and from the effect reading about them has on us today, however you want to live is valid and important-- because the mere fact of you, living, makes the world more radiant. p215
Facts/ Amazing and Interesting Stuff I Learned
But putting present labels on past activities is tricky, which is why you need to choose your words wisely. p3
In English, all language related to queerness was initially more focused on actual sex acts than on a sense of self. p3
...the Bugis in Indonesia (who still have five genders instead of two)... p7
The recorded history of the third sex and other transgender identities in this region dates back to the Kama Sutra, which is about two thousand years old. p12
So they did what many other same-sex couples did to create a legal tie between them: Bayard adopted Walter as his son. Sounds weird, but before marriage equality, this was one of the only ways two men could circumvent laws that prevented them from doing married-couple things, like leaving each other a family inheritance. p120
Whoa!
"It is almost impossible that a woman should perform the duties required on the throne. The ignorance of women, their feebleness of mind, body, and understanding, makes them incapable of reigning." p39
..."could not bear to be used by a man the way a peasant uses his field" p41
she felt a head shouldn't be "adorned with hair and naked of learning." p46
Mercedes [de Acosta] told a nun at the convent, "I am not a boy and I am not a girl, or maybe I am both-- I don't know. And because I don't know, I will never fit in anywhere and I will be lonely all my life." p9
They even once took a road trip without any Secret Service agents in tow, after Eleanor [Roosevelt] promised she'd take a gun with her for protection (she kept it unloaded at the bottom of the trunk.) p110
Watered down booze was served (despite the State Liquor Authority's absurd policy against serving alcohol to homosexuals)... p61
She identified with the car, which was built to go fast but had a very fragile exterior. p175
Dan White would serve only five years in prison for the double murder after his defense team successfully argued that depression caused in part by eating junk food had left him mentally incompetent and incapable of premeditation (the infamous "Twinkie defense"). p185-186
For much of George's lifetime, being gay was completely illegal in America and considered perverse by a majority of his fellow citizens (fellow citizens who had also allowed internment camps on American soil.) p211
LOL
Ma [Rainey] was singing about physical labor, inequality, grief, cheating, and domestic violence at a time when most mainstream music was about perfect hetero relationships and how pretty the moon was. p71
The Color Purple
read Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's chapter
Debate
"Change is counterproductive when you force it on people. I fear that's where the problem is going to start." p184
Farewell to Manzanar
read George Takei's chapter
But when we make assumptions about any historical figure, we rewrite the past without even knowing it.p1
The version of history we learn in school puts a straight cisgender mask on almost everyone. p1
Recognizing the world's rich history of queerness helps reduce homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, and helps welcome queer identities to the mainstream with love and acceptance. p2
Why homosexuals were one of the colonists' most popular scapegoats remains unclear. It wasn't just a bad interpretation of the Bible, since colonial states didn't outlaw greediness and other things Christianity forbids. p8
It matters that we say and demonstrate how queerness itself is as old as time, because people still find it counterintuitive to their conceptions of history. p213
Thinking about the amount of progress yet to be accomplished can be overwhelming, but when we put it in the context of all of time, we see that we've been going in the right direction for hundreds of years and that queer people have always accomplished the unimaginable. p214-215
And as we see in all these transformative lives, and from the effect reading about them has on us today, however you want to live is valid and important-- because the mere fact of you, living, makes the world more radiant. p215
Facts/ Amazing and Interesting Stuff I Learned
But putting present labels on past activities is tricky, which is why you need to choose your words wisely. p3
In English, all language related to queerness was initially more focused on actual sex acts than on a sense of self. p3
...the Bugis in Indonesia (who still have five genders instead of two)... p7
The recorded history of the third sex and other transgender identities in this region dates back to the Kama Sutra, which is about two thousand years old. p12
So they did what many other same-sex couples did to create a legal tie between them: Bayard adopted Walter as his son. Sounds weird, but before marriage equality, this was one of the only ways two men could circumvent laws that prevented them from doing married-couple things, like leaving each other a family inheritance. p120
Whoa!
"It is almost impossible that a woman should perform the duties required on the throne. The ignorance of women, their feebleness of mind, body, and understanding, makes them incapable of reigning." p39
..."could not bear to be used by a man the way a peasant uses his field" p41
she felt a head shouldn't be "adorned with hair and naked of learning." p46
Mercedes [de Acosta] told a nun at the convent, "I am not a boy and I am not a girl, or maybe I am both-- I don't know. And because I don't know, I will never fit in anywhere and I will be lonely all my life." p9
They even once took a road trip without any Secret Service agents in tow, after Eleanor [Roosevelt] promised she'd take a gun with her for protection (she kept it unloaded at the bottom of the trunk.) p110
Watered down booze was served (despite the State Liquor Authority's absurd policy against serving alcohol to homosexuals)... p61
She identified with the car, which was built to go fast but had a very fragile exterior. p175
Dan White would serve only five years in prison for the double murder after his defense team successfully argued that depression caused in part by eating junk food had left him mentally incompetent and incapable of premeditation (the infamous "Twinkie defense"). p185-186
For much of George's lifetime, being gay was completely illegal in America and considered perverse by a majority of his fellow citizens (fellow citizens who had also allowed internment camps on American soil.) p211
LOL
Ma [Rainey] was singing about physical labor, inequality, grief, cheating, and domestic violence at a time when most mainstream music was about perfect hetero relationships and how pretty the moon was. p71
The Color Purple
read Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's chapter
Debate
"Change is counterproductive when you force it on people. I fear that's where the problem is going to start." p184
Farewell to Manzanar
read George Takei's chapter
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