The document discusses the concept of queer, its implications, and queer theory within the context of Indian writing in English post-independence. It highlights the definitions of LGBTI, intersex, and transgender identities while referencing key theorists like Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Furthermore, it touches on the intersectionality of queer theory and its role in challenging societal norms around identity and sexuality.

1. Paper no : 8 Indian Writing in English –
Post Independence:
• Name : Makwana Vijay K.
• Email : vijaykm7777@gmail.com
• Roll no. : 34
• Enrollment no. : 2069108420180035
• Study : M.A PART 1, SEM 2
• Submitted to : Department of English (MKBU)

2. Topic :

3. What is the meaning of Queer :
• Queer means : Something or someone is odd or
whimsical.
• "he/she had a queer feeling that they were being
watched"

4. Queer Theory :
• Queer theory is a field of poststructure critical theory.
• “Queer” is often used as an umbrella term by and for persons who
identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, and transgender, or by and
for individuals who use the term as an alternative to LGBTI labels.
• Some find the term derogatory depending upon their race, class,
personal experience, and also their generation.
• Recently, heterosexuals whose gender or sexuality does not conform to
popular expectations have used the term “queer” to define themselves.

5. Meaning of LGBTI :
• LGBTI means :
• Nearly one in every 2,000 people is born with variations in
reproductive or sexual anatomy, or has a chromosome
pattern that doesn’t fit with what is typically considered
male or female. Such individuals are “intersex” — the “I”
in LGBTI — and can identify as male, female or neither.
• Along with this people are struggling in many places for
recognition, equality and their human rights.
• The intersex people are born with unique biological
characteristics, they are different from transgender
people, who do not identify with their assigned gender
identity. Ironically, many intersex people receive unwanted
surgeries and hormone treatments that transgender
people have to fight for.

6. Queer Theory as a part of study :
• Queer studies whose roots can be found in women’s
studies, feminist theory, and gay and lesbian studies,
as well as postmodern and poststructuralist theories.
• In 1991, Teresa de Lauretis used the words “queer
theory” to describe a way of thinking that did not use
heterosexuality or binary gender constructs as its
starting point, but instead argued for a more fluid
concept of identity.

7. • The works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler are often considered the founding
texts of queer theory.
• Lauren Berlant, Michael Warner, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick are also major early
writers in defining queer theory.
• Queer theory argue that it prompts the acceptance and understanding of a more
complex reality in which we live.
• Queer theory provides scholars, activists, and others ways of thinking and talking
about identity beyond simple binaries especially in fighting homophobia and
transphobia, which are unreasoned fear and hatred towards homosexuals and
homosexuality, and transsexuals, transsexuality, and transgender people,
respectively.
• For example, when doctors perform surgery on intersex infants to select their
gender, and GLBTIQ people are the targets of violence.

8. Gayle Rubin:
• His essay “Thinking Sex” is explanations of sexuality by
thinking about the way that sexual identities as well as
behaviors are hierarchically organized through systems
of sexual classifications.
• Rubin also argued against the feminist belief that
through gender, sexuality was obtained or the belief that
gender and sexuality are the same.

9. Eve Kosofsky Sedwick :
• His book Epistemology of the Closet.
• she argues that the homo-hetero difference in the
modern sexual definition is vitally disjointed for two
reasons: that homosexuality is thought to be part of
a minority group, and how homosexuality is
gendered to be either masculine or feminine.

10. Judith Butler :
• She argues in her book Gender Trouble that gender, like
sexuality, is not an essential truth obtained from one’s
body but something that is acted out and portrayed as
“reality”.
• She argues that the strict belief that the there is a “truth”
of sex makes heterosexuality as the only proper
outcome because of the coherent binary created of
“feminine” and “masculine” and thus creating the only
logical outcome of either being a “male” or “female.”

11. Implications of Queer Theory :
• A queer perspective has the potential to
undermine the base structure on which any
identity relies on, the theory has been
understood to be just about questions of
sexuality.
• Queer theory is solely about sexuality has been
opposed by having an intersectional approach
that starts off with the hypothesis that sexuality
cannot be disconnected from the other
categories of social status and identity.
• This allows queer theory to become
interdiscipline and thus create new ways of
thinking in how sexuality shapes and is shaped
by other factors.

12. Queer marriage :
Sir Elton John
and
David Furnish Chely Weight
and
Lauren Blitzer
• Bisexual

13. Famous example of Intersex :
• Hanne Gaby Odiele
• She was born with androgen insensitivity
syndrome, where, despite being genetically
male with male chromosomes, the body
doesn’t respond to testosterone properly,
preventing the penis and other male body
parts from developing normally.

14. Famous example of transgender :
• Jenna TaTalackova, is a Canadian model and
television personality, who gained media attention
in 2012 when she successfully waged a legal battle
to be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe
Canada after being initially disqualified for being
transgender.

15. Queer theory based movie :

16. Based on Hindi movie :

17. Queer theory based T.V serials :

18. Based on advertisement :

19. Conclusion :

20. Thank you…….