Any queer theory seminar stories?

https://www.reddit.com/r/QueerTheory/comments/1jbgemj/any_queer_theory_seminar_stories/

created by ghost_of_flower on 14/03/2025 at 22:36 UTC*

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• *Title says it all. I want to hear other people's stories from queer theory classes and seminars.** Good takes, bad takes, weird shit that went down—IDC give me your lore.

Some good one's from mine:

- We read Halberstam's *The Queer Art of Failure* and a classmate said, "this whole semester I feel like I've been failing at theory—but maybe that's the point" (amazing, 10/10, I loved this point)

- I was leading discussion on Halloween and my professor was dressed up with lion ears and lion paws. You have not known struggle until you are trying to lead a discussion about queer time and you see your prof gesturing with their paws and can't laugh.

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Comment by petalsformyself at 14/03/2025 at 23:13 UTC

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I was taking a class on Philosophy of Science and Siobhan Guerrero McManus (well known trans analyst and academic in Mexico) came in to discuss one of her texts with the class and one guy said "but aren't you a man" and continued on a seemingly accidental transphobic rant.