The Importance Of Queer Studies

Research into Queer Studies is on the rise throughout American Liberal Arts colleges. The struggle of being queer in America is only getting more difficult as the public believes that the rights they have are “good enough.” The ruling that they can marry didn’t signify the success of the queer movement, rather it signified the death of it. It is becoming ever more difficult for them to cross social and legal barriers that need to be destroyed because of this. For example, they might be able to marry, but any store can reject making their wedding cake just because they are queer. The oppression of queers goes beyond this, it is deeply rooted in society. They are viewed as abnormal. They are just Others in our capitalist system, put into a state
Both the feminist movement and the queer movement need to unite under an anti-capitalism paradigm, otherwise they will continue to face massive inequalities from a system that benefits on keeping queers and females from obtaining true freedoms. My research project would involve bringing Queer Studies, Feminist Studies and Creative Writing together to provide narratives about queer and gender oppression. It would be a communal effort, where a group of people from any background come together to write about the struggles they faced, with an emphasis on queer and feminine
Storytelling utilizes divergent thinking, opens people’s minds and destroys barriers that previously existed in society. It can go beyond a simple factual basis and draw connections between those facts and experiences. The project will involve a group of people, coming together to create works of art to express how the view oppression, how they have been subjected to it, and how we can work on it as a society. It will focus mainly on Queer and Feminist Studies.
One of the main issues that the queer and feminist movements face is the inability for non-queers and non-females to understand how these two groups are being oppressed. Many people still believe that being gay is a choice, that both the feminist and queer movement have achieved enough, and that they are unnecessary movements because of this. Using creative writing can thus be an extremely useful tool to show people that none of that is