Queer Theory

A comparative study of constitutional law in eleven Latin American jurisdictions, tracing gender-rights innovation alongside gaps in reasoning and implementation.

Cherríe Moraga's landmark Chicana lesbian feminist essays and poems examine family, racialized labor, desire, language, and coalition. This reading centers the 1983 original, not every piece in the expanded 2023 edition.

Through first-person stories, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores how desire, religion, queer life, trauma, and community shape sexual freedom across African and diasporic contexts.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha connects disability justice to mutual aid, grief, climate survival, accessible art, and disabled joy - without romanticizing care work.

Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.

Gregory D. Smithers traces Indigenous gender traditions through colonial suppression, survival, and renewal, locating the modern reclamation of Two-Spirit identity within language, spirituality, and sovereignty.

Saim Sadiq’s Lahore family drama follows a married man drawn to a trans dancer, but its feminist force lies in tracing how patriarchal duty frustrates the desires of everyone sharing the household.

Written, directed, edited by, and starring Isabel Sandoval, this film brings trans identity, immigration status, care work, and intimacy into one fragile story of a Filipina caregiver in New York.

Olivia Wilde's directorial debut revolutionizes the high school comedy genre, following two academic overachievers who decide to cram four years of fun into one wild night before graduation. This self-aware coming-of-age comedy explores female friendship, academic pressure, sexual identity, and teenage identity formation through an inclusive lens.

A tender romance between two young women in Nairobi uses color, music, and everyday joy to resist a public culture in which queer love is treated as political betrayal.

Nepal’s pioneering lesbian feature follows a dancer and her lover confronting arranged marriage, family authority, and the scarcity of social space in which queer intimacy can become ordinary life.

Director Maryam Keshavarz's coming-of-age drama focuses on a wealthy Iranian family, particularly headstrong teenager Atafeh whose relationship with her friend Shireen evolves from friendship into romance and even eroticism, alongside her brother's journey from recovering drug addict to religious extremist. This vibrant exploration of sexual rebellion showcases high school protagonists confronting patriarchal oppression, culminating in a penetrating examination of women's treatment under Iranian theocracy.

This All My Relations episode with Kim TallBear discusses critical polyamory, Indigenous relational ethics, feminism, and settler marriage, making it a key audio resource on how sex, intimacy, and family are structured by colonial power.