In this episode, Dr Daniella Gáti (Brandeis University) explains why the internet is queer, how gaming and the form of the vignette relate to queerness and why we should (or should not) watch Queer Eye. If you're intrigued by the notion of queerness as a a 'blob', give this a listen.

Scholars mentioned in this episode:
Whitney Pow
Bo Ruberg
Lee Edelman
Jack Halberstam
Sara Ahmed (“What’s the Use”, Feminist Killjoy Blog, @SaraNAhmed)
Jen Jack Gieseking (“A Queer New York”, “The Gender, Sexuality, & Space Reading List”, http://jgieseking.org/)
Judith Butler

Films, books, series, magazines and social media mentioned:
Qlit (https://qlit.hu/en/home/)
Autostraddle (https://www.autostraddle.com/)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Danger of a Single Story” (https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en)
@herstorycats
Anna Pulley: “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)”
Sarah Waters: “Affinity” and “Tipping the Velvet”
“Queer Eye”
JVN (@jvn, @curiouswithjvn)
Laverne Cox: “Free Cece”

Learn more about Daniella's work here: https://dgati.github.io/ and follow us on Twitter here: @gati_daniella and here: @Lena_Mattheis.

Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:

1. What is electronic literature?
2. What is a vignette?
3. What do you think Daniella means by “media-archeological approach”?
4. What does Daniella say about definitions of queerness?
5. How does queerness relate to fragmentation (in texts) and glitches (in games)?
6. When speaking about Whitney Pow’s work, Daniella explains that it is in the nature of archives to erase transness. Why do you think that could be? Can you think of an example?