These characters and interpretations provide an interesting level of historical queer representation on a larger scale, whether or not they are actually queer.
Even outside of forms of more explicit resistance, our project hopes to examine what it means to embrace joy and love in the mundane, while existing in a marginalized body that is so often susceptible to violence.
The book talk series seeking to honor and celebrate works by queer and disabled creators in the same academic spaces they were most likely to be pushed out of.