Queer Theory Reading List
A good intro to radical queer theory, since there really don’t seem to be any.
We on the left pay far too little attention to queer theory and queer issues. This, in large part, is due to the vast deficit of queer Marxist theory, which this reading list will attempt to encompass. This will be a menagerie of gender abolitionist theory, as well as radical queer theory of all kinds. I did my best to incorporate the variety of queer perspectives with this list, but I am not perfect, and if there is a piece I should take off or add, please reach out to me. Even if you are not queer yourself, or if you tend towards moderation, I highly recommend each and every one of these pieces to contextualize the position of queer people in society. I would also encourage discussing these pieces with others reading the same things, or who know more about radical queer theory than you do. Hopefully these reading recommendations are reasonable, but if not, you should of course feel free to take longer or finish faster than the list suggests. In addition, if you have any recommendations for the list, please let me know!
CW: Slurs, (occasionally graphic) violence, death, etc
Week 1: Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture (20 pages).
Week 2: Against the Gendered Nightmare: Chapters 1–3, the First Mythos, and Chapter 4.
Week 3: Gendered Nightmare: Chapters 5–7.
Week 4: Gendered Nightmare: Chapters 8–11.
Week 5: Gendered Nightmare: Second Mythos, Chapters 12–14.
Week 6: Gendered Nightmare: Chapters 15–18.
Week 7: Gendered Nightmare: Chapters 19 to end.
Week 8: Baedan: “Pure Negativity” and “Not for the Children.”
Week 9: Baedan: “Evading the Trap of the Future,” “Naming the Unnameable,” and “Jouissance.”
Week 10: Baedan: “Capitalism, the Family and the Anus,” “The Parasites of Society,” and “Uncivilized Desire.”
Week 11: Baedan: “The Body and Language,” “To Destroy Sexuality; To Destroy Domestication,” and “Birds of Fire.”
Week 12: Baedan: “To Face the Past” and “To Awaken the Dead.”
Week 13: Baedan: From “To Make History Explode” to the end.
Week 14: Be Gay Do Crime.
Week 15: Gender Nihilism.
Week 16: No Future: “The Future is Kid Stuff.”
Week 17: No Future: “Sinthomosexuality.”
Week 18: No Future: “Compassion’s Compulsion.”
Week 19: No Future: “No Future (chapter).”
Week 20: Towards the Queerest Insurrection.
Week 21: Witch, Slut, Murderer.
Week 22: Queering Heterosexuality: Up to “Liberation, Responsibility, and Intimacy.”
Week 23: Queering Heterosexuality: To End
Week 24: To Be Queer is to Love All: Up to “When the Abnormal Becomes ‘Normal.’”
Week 25: To Be Queer: To End.
Week 26: Queer Necropolitics: Chapter 1 (Introduction and others not included, but I encourage you to read them later).
Week 27: QN: Chapter 2.
Week 28: QN: Chapter 3.
Week 29: QN: Chapter 4.
Week 30: QN: Chapter 5.
Week 31: QN: Chapter 6.
Week 32: QN: Chapter 7.
Week 33: QN: Chapter 8.
Week 34: QN: Chapter 9.
Week 35: Towards A Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question: to page 53.
Week 36: Towards A Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question: to end.
Week 37: The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto: to “Communism.”
Week 38: The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto: to end.
Week 39: Bi: Chapter 1.
Week 40. Bi: Chapter 2.
Week 41. Bi: Chapter 3.
Week 42: Bi: Chapter 4.
Week 43: Bi: Chapter 5.
Week 44: Bi: Chapter 6.
Week 45: Bi: Chapter 7.
Week 46: Bi: Chapter 8.
Week 47: Queer Revenge.
Week 48: Fugitive Faggotry: Queer Rage and the Limitations of Equality.
Week 49: Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times: Chapter 1 (Introduction and others not included, but I encourage you to read them later).
Week 50: Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times: Chapter 2.
Week 51: Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times: Chapter 3.
Week 52: Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times: Chapter 4 and Conclusion.
