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Join Sex Diss for the first session of our exciting new PGR reading group, Queer Quickies!

We will come together once a month (usually on the final Wednesday of the month) to discuss a short section of a queer theory text guided by the theme of the quickie. We hope this will provide a space for PGRs thinking about gender and sexuality, as well as the wider Sex Diss community to gather and get to know each other. We will consider what the messy, rushed and frivolous intimacy of the quickie has to offer our reading of queer texts and have a go at matchmaking snippets from different queer theorists’ work. As our timetables narrow the possibilities for prolonged literary and intimate encounters, what do we gain or lose from reading just a few pages? While the initial stimulation of the texts might be brief encounters, we hope to offer a space for PGRs and other friends of Sex Diss to come together and discuss significant topics and questions which animate contemporary queer studies. 

Our first session will be on 30 October 4-6 pm in Silverstone SB302 and online. We will be discussing sections from pages 1-6 of Lee Edelman’s Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing, including his claim that “deconstructive, feminist, psychoanalytic, queer, and race-centered theories […] promulgate a “bad education” by attesting to […], “the ontological incompleteness of reality itself.”” (p. 3-4). 

We’d love for the group to decide on future texts together, so please get in touch if you have any ideas. If you have any questions or need access to the text, or would like the Zoom link, you can email Sarah at ssb30@sussex.ac.uk.  

We look forward to seeing you there soon! 

Benedict and Sarah