Queersources Club
Welcome to Queersources Club! Below, you can find the collaborative archive of online sources, exploring everything that is queer. You are welcome to use the articles, books, chapters and whatever else you find here for free. Is there anything missing on the list that you would like to read? Reach out! In case you wish to contribute with a source yourself – drop us an email. We want to see this archive flourishing, representing the topics that the community is interested in, so don’t be shy and pick your read! Resources in order of Author last name, first name:
ID | Author(s) | Title with Link | Language | Key words/theme |
1 | Al-Saji, Alia | The racialization of Muslim veils: A philosophical analysis | English | Feminism, France, Frantz Fanon, gender oppression, hijab, Islam, phenomenology, racism, veil |
2 | Alsop, Rachel | Judith Butler: ‘The queen of queer’ | English | Gender, theory |
3 | Atherton, Michelle | Feminine and Masculine Personnas in Performance | English | Sexuality, gender, performance |
4 | Ayoup, Colleen and Podmore, Julie | Making Kings | English | Drag kings, lesbians, performance, sexuality, masculinity, documentary film, Montréal |
5 | Balogh, Andrea P. | Kinging in Hungarian Lesbian Culture | English | Drag king, female masculinity, Hungarian lesbian activism, post-socialist culture, heteronormativity |
6 | Barnett, Joshua Trey and Johnson, Corey W. | We Are All Royalty | English | Drag performer, genderqueer, narrative inquiry, queer space |
7 | Basiliere, Jae | Staging Dissents: Drag Kings, Resistence, and Feminist Masculinities | English | Drag king, feminist masculinities |
8 | Bazile, Sophonie | Memories from the Dykeaspora | English | Haitian, queer, memory, diaspora, belonging |
9 | Beauvoir, Simone de | “Introduction” to The Second Sex | English | Feminism, second wave, gender |
10 | Berbary, Lisbeth A and Johnson, Corey W. | En/Activist Drag: Kings Reflect on Queerness, Queens, and Questionable Masculinities | English | Creative analytic practice, gender, LGBTQ |
11 | Bernstein, Elizabeth | Sex Work for the Middle Classes | English | Authenticity, class, postindustrialism, sex work, technology |
12 | Bettcher, Talia Mae | Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance | English | Trans, theory |
13 | Bloom, Amy | The Body Lies | English | Gender identity |
14 | Boyd, Nan Alamilla | The Materiality of Gender | English | Lesbian, transgender, transsexual, gender, sexuality |
15 | Bradford, K. | Grease Cowboy Fever; or, the Making of Johnny T | English | Drag king, gender, queer, transgender, performance, feminism, liberation, social change, Travolta |
16 | Braziel, Jana Evans | Dréed’s drag kinging of race, sex, and the queering of the American racial machine-désirante | English | Drag kinging, race, sex, queering |
17 | Butler, Judith | From interiority to gender performatives | English | Gender, performativity |
18 | Cahill, Clare | Nancy, Sean and Birdie Jo: Contested convictions of gender | English | Gender identity, transgender, deviance, gender norms, gender matrix |
19 | Cannen, Emma | Avant-Garde Militarism and a Post-Hip-Hop President | English | Barack Obama, war on terror, presidential masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, militarized masculinities, militarism |
20 | Chowdhry, Maya | Living Performance | English | Sexuality, gender, performance |
21 | Clayton, Susan | Can Two and a Half Centuries of Female Husbands Inform (Trans)Gender History? | English | Female husbands, gender otherness, heteronormative constructions of lesbianism, interpreting an oxymoron, portraylas of crowd dynamics, queering (social) gazes |
22 | Cobrin, Pamela | She’s old enough to be a beautiful young boy: Sarah Bernhardt, breeches roles and the poetics of aging | English | Sarah Bernhardy, aging, L’Aiglon, Hamlet, breeches roles, travesti roles, cross-dress roles, “cross-age roles” |
23 | Connell, R. W. | The Social Organization of Masculinity | English | Social organization, masculinity |
24 | Craig, Brody Parrish | Twang: a collection of art & writing from transgender, nonbinary & gender non-conforming folks in the south & midwest | English | Poetry, art, transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, South, Midwest |
25 | Crenshaw, Kimberlé | Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Learning from Violence Against Women of Color | English | Intersectionality, identity politics, violence, feminism, race |
26 | Crowley, Vicki | Drag Kings “Down Under” | English | Drag king, female masculinity, race, identity, sexuality, performativity, queer, lesbian |
27 | Darwish, Mahmoud | A River Dies of Thirst | English | Journals, poetry |
28 | Davis, Angela Y. | Are Prisons Obsolete? | English | Prisons, slavery, civil rights, abolitionism, reform, gender |
29 | Edward, Mark and Farrier, Stephen (eds) | Contemporary Drag Practices & Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Vol 1 | English | Drag kings, drag queens, performance |
30 | Eisner, Shiri | Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution | English | Bisexuality, monosexism, biphobia, feminism |
31 | Erickson-Schroth, Laura | Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community | English | Transgender |
32 | Farris, Sara R. | Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women | English | Migration, feminism, neo-Marxism, political economy |
33 | Feinberg, Leslie | Stone Butch Blues | English | Novel, love, homophobia |
34 | Feinberg, Leslie | Stone Butch Blues | English | Novel, love, homophobia |
35 | Feinberg, Leslie | Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue | English | Trans, portraits |
36 | Feinberg, Leslie | Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman | English | Transgender, history |
37 | Foucault, Michel | We “Other Victorians”; The Incitement to Discourse; The Perverse Implantation | English | Discourse, gender, repression, history, philosophy, sexuality |
38 | Fraser, Nancy and Bhattacharya, Tithi and Arruzza, Cinzia et al | Notes for a Feminist Manifesto | English | Feminist manifesto, thesis |
39 | Freire, Paulo | Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition | English | Oppression, education |
40 | Gabb, Jacqui | Marginal differences? An analysis of the imag(in)ed bodies of Del LaGrace | English | Gender, sexuality, feminism |
41 | Ginsberg, Allen | Poems | English | Poetry, classics |
42 | Goffman, Erving | Stigma and Social Identity | English | Stigma, social identity, visuality |
43 | Halberstam, Judith | An Introduction to Female Masculinity | English | Female masculinity |
44 | Halberstam, Judith | Drag Kings | English | Drag kings |
45 | Halberstam, Judith | John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion | English | Female masculinity, discourse |
46 | Halberstam, Judith | The Drag King Book | English | Drag king, photography, interviews, class, race, masculinity |
47 | Halberstam, Judith | What’s that smell? Queer temporalities and subcultural lives | English | Agency, archive, counter-publics, punk, resistence, riot grrrl, youth cultures |
48 | Hammidi, Tania Nicole | Dance, Dress, Desire: Drag Kings, Prison Wear, and the Dressed, Dancing Body | English | Costume, performance, drag king, choreography, LGBTIQ |
49 | Hammond, Joyce D. | Making a Spectacle of Herself | English | Lesbian |
50 | Haraway, Donna | Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective | English | Feminism, epistemology |
51 | Harding, Sandra | Introduction: After the Science Question in Feminism | English | Feminism, science |
52 | Harding, Sandra | Introduction: Standpoint Theory as a Site of Political, Philosophical, and Scientific Debate | English | Standpoint theory, feminism, politics, philosophy, science |
53 | Hart, Betty de | Sexuality, race and masculinity in Europe’s refugee crisis | English | Cologne, sexuality, race, masculinity, refugee |
54 | Hemmings, Clare | Rescuing Lesbian Camp | English | Lesbian, camp, drag, butch, femme, trans, bisexual |
55 | Hill Collins, Patricia | Black Feminist Epistemology | English | Feminist epistemology, race |
56 | Hill Collins, Patricia | Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection | English | Race, class, gender |
57 | hooks, bell | Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness | English | Radical standpoint, race, feminism |
58 | hooks, bell | Continued Devaluation of Black Womanhood | English | Race, gender, black feminism, racism, slavery |
59 | hooks, bell | Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics | English |
Feminism, politics, sisterhood, education, bodies, consciousness, class, work, race, gender, violence, parenting, marriage, sexual politic, spirituality
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60 | Hubman, Melinda | Performing Masculinities | English | Photography |
61 | Inness, Julie | Lesbian Sexual Renegades? | English | Lesbian, sexual practices, identities, politics |
62 | Jackson, Stevi | Gender, sexuality and heterosexuality | English | Gender, sexuality, heteorosexuality, homosexuality, queer |
63 | Jones, A. | Global Motivations to Cam: Challenging Alienation and Recapturing Pleasure in Work | English | Camming, sex work |
64 | Koenig, Sheila “Dragon Fly” | Walk Like a Man | English | Drag kings, queer theory, gender, transgender, edmonton, Fly Bastards, lesbian, sexuality, male impersonation, performativity |
65 | Koyama, Emi | The Transfeminist Manifesto | English | Transfeminism, feminism, manifesto |
66 | Krakauer, Ilana D. and Rose, Suzanna, M. | The Impact of Group Membership on Lesbians’ Physical Appearance | English | Lesbian, coming out, appearance, body image |
67 | Kumbier, Alana | One Body, Some Genders | English | Drag, drag king, drag queen, technology, queer, glam, performance, masculinity, femininity |
68 | Laqueur, Thomas | Of Language and the Flesh | English | Sexuality, gender, body |
69 | Link, Bruce G. and Phelan, Jo C. | Conceptualizing Stigma | English | Labeling, stereotype, discrimination, exclusion, deviance |
70 | Lorber, Judith | Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology | English | Biology, sociology, sexuality, gender |
71 |
Lugones, María |
Toward a Decolonial Feminism | English |
Colonialism, post-colonialism, gender, race, sexuality, capitalist colonial modernity |
72 |
Luna6 |
Zinas: Kelionė. Peter Watkins Zine: Journey |
Lithuanian and English |
Empathy, solidarity, anti-military, peace, community |
72 | Maltz, Robin | Real butch: The performance/performativity of male impersonation, drag kings, passing as male, and stone butch realness | English | Performativity, queer female masculinity, theatrical performance, melae impersonators, drag kings, passing, stone bitch subjectivity |
73 | Maltz, Robin | Toward a Dyke Discourse | English | Dyke discourse, queer theory, female subjectivity, desire, sexual practice, lesbian |
74 | McIntosh, Peggy | White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack | English | White privilege, academics |
75 | Millett, Kate | Sexual Politics | English | Feminism, politics, sexuality |
76 | N/A | Kingdom: International Drag King Magazine vol 1 | English | Drag kings |
77 | N/A | What Is Gender Nihilism? A Reader | English | Collection, gender, nihilism, theory |
78 | Nakano Glenn, Evelyn | The social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race | English | Constructivism, gender, race |
79 | Neveel, Neeve “Amy” | Me Boy | English | Drag king, gender, feminism, gender performativity, transgender, female masculinity, transfeminism |
80 | Nielsen, Elly-Jean | Lesbian camp: An unearthing | English | Camp, lesbian women, art, performance, butch-femme |
81 | Noble, Jean Bobby | Seeing Double, Thinking Twice | English | Camp, drag king, female masculinity, dialogism, Bakhtin, masculinity, Toronto, queer theory, performativity, race, whiteness, irony, transsexual |
82 | Ochs, Robyn and Rowley, Sarah E. | Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, Second Edition | English | Bisexuality, stories |
83 | Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké | Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects | English | Visualization, body, Western, African, gender |
84 | Pattereson, Jennifer Lyn | Capital Drag | English | Drag, gender, king, lesbian, masculinity, performance, queer, sexuality, Washington |
85 | Pauliny, Tara | “I am your king”: A Theorization of Rhetorical Female-to-Male Drag | English | Feminism, rhetorical history, gender |
86 | Pauliny, Tara | Erotic Arguments and Persuasive Acts | English | Argument(s), audience, desire, discourse(s), drag king(s), ideology, identity, race, rhetoric, performance |
87 | Pauliny, Tara | Politics and play: meditations on rhetorical bodily performance | English | Drag king, body, performance, politics, body, identity, play |
88 | Pereira, Pedro Paulo Gomes | Queer in the Tropics: Gender and Sexuality in the Global South | English | Gender, sexuality, Global South |
89 | Piontek, Thomas | Kinging in the Heartland; or, The Power of Marginality | English | Camp, drag king, drag queen, femininity, gender, H.I.S. Kings, masculinity, Midwest, performativity, race |
90 | Rajunov, Micah and Duane, Scott | Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity | English | Nonbinary, gender identity |
91 | Rich, Adrienne Cecile | Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | English | Compulsory heterosexuality, lesbian existence, feminism |
92 | Rosenfeld, Kathryn | Drag King Magic | English | Drag kings, performance, magic, masculinity, lesbian, bisexuality, gender, anthropology, social power, desire |
93 | Rothman, Joshua | The Origins of “Privilege” | English | Privilege, Peggy McIntosh, feminism, interview |
94 | Rubin, Gayle | Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality | English | Radical theory, feminism, politics, sexuality |
95 | Rupp, Leila J. and Taylor, Verta and Shapiro, Eve Ilana | Drag Queens and Drag Kings: The Difference Gender Makes | English | Drag queens, drag kings, transgender, gender, performance |
96 | Sachs, Jeffrey D. | The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time | English | Political economy, poverty |
97 | Schacht, Steven P. | Lesbian Drag Kings and the Feminine Embodiment of the Masculine | English | Lesbian drag king, lesbian drag queen, doing gender, gender as performance, imperial sovereign court, embodiment, masculinity, femininty, gay drag kings, gay drag queens |
98 | Schares, Evan Mitchell | Witnessing the archive: Stormé DeLarverie and queer performance historicity | English | Performance historicity, Black drag, Stonewall, photographs, lesbian aesthetics |
99 | Sennett, Jay and Bay-Cheng, Sarah | “I am the Man!” Performing Gender and Other Incongruities | English | Halberstam, transgender, drag, performance, Shakespeare, transsexual, gender, autobiography |
100 | Shapiro, Eve | Drag Kinging and the Transformation of Gender Identities | English | Drag kings, gender identity, performativity |
101 | Solanas’, Valerie | S.C.U.M. Manifesto | English, Dutch | Feminism, manifesto |
102 | Solo, Christopher | Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color | English | Poetry, queer, race |
103 | Strolovitch, Dara Z. | Do Interest Groups Represent the Disadvantaged? Advocacy at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender | English | Advocacy, intersectionality, race, class, gender |
104 | Stryker, Susan | (De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies | English | Transgender |
105 | Surkan, Kim | Drag Kings in the New Wave | English | Drag king, masculinity, butch, transgender, gender fluidity, identity, performance, participation, freak, disability |
106 | Taylor, Melanie A. | The masculine soul heaving in the female bosom’: Theories of inversion and The Well of Loneliness | English | Stephen Gordon, transgender, inversion, cross-gender identification, same-sex desire, gender embodiment |
107 | Taylor, Verta and Whittier, Nancy E. | Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization | English | Feminism, mobilization, social movements |
108 | The Combahee River Collective | A Black Feminist Statement | English | Feminism, race |
109 | Thompson, Lauren Jade | Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit: Performing Masculinity in How I Met Your Mother | English | Sitcom, masculinity, postfeminism, gender, comedy, bachelor |
110 | Torr, Diane and Czyzselska, Jane | Drag Kings and Subjects | English | Drag, sexuality, gender, performance |
111 | Troka, Donna Jean and Noble, Jean Bobby and Lebesco, Kathleen | Introduction | English | Drag kings |
112 | Weaver, Lois | Performing Butch/Femme Theory | English | Performance, butch, femme, theatre |
113 | Wekker, Gloria | “What’s Identity Got to Do with It?” Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname | English | Identity, Mati, Suriname |
114 | Wekker, Gloria | Of Homo Nostalgia and (Post)Coloniality: Or, Where Did All the Critical White Gay Men Go? | English | Homosexuality, postcoloniality, race, sexuality, gender |
115 | West, Candace and Zimmerman, Don H. | Doing Gender | English | Gender, sex, sex category |
116 | Willox, Annabelle | Whose Drag Is It Anyway? Drag Kings and Monarchy in the UK | English | Transgender, queer, drag, camp, butch, femme, sexuality, performativity, performance, identity |
117 | Woolf, Virginia | Orlando | English | Fiction, LGBT, Lesbian, Biographical |
118 | Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse | English | Fiction |