Postqueer

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    After the establishment of the queer (homosexual, bisexual, transgender, etc.) movement, or queer theory. not-comparable

    "This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation."

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"This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation."

Etymology

From post- + queer.

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