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Week 2 Informal Reading Notes

Hawley, J., C. (2001). Post-colonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections. State University of New York Press; First Edition. ISBN-13: 978-0791450925

• The definition of the term “post-colonial” refers to a plethora of complex elements and any single term that could be used to describe the term would fall short.
• Queer is one of the post-colonial aspects that are in opposition to the practices of heterosexual and homosexual mainstream embraced during colonial times.
• Postcolonial studies suffer the challenge of over-relying on European perspectives in telling the story of world history.
• Using queer theory and globalization studies, individuals can get a better understanding of gay/lesbian studies.
• The post-colonial times have been responsible for the emergence of the global gay person, which is a form of internationalizing the social and cultural identities of queers.
• The colonial culture permitted people of same-sex to engage in sexual relations without requiring them to regard themselves as gay.
• The contemporary society associates a gay person with various styles and behaviours and most societies have formulated terms to describe queer behaviours.
• The western descriptions of gays are displacement in the East because the views of Western gay writers use perspectives from the Western world.
• Queer status has often been used as a basis for exclusion and marginalization especially in some countries such as Algeria.
• Women who love fellow women are in some societies are seen as following non-conformist ways and marginalized based on their sexual preferences.
• Sexual national and colonialism should be transcended by the hybridization of gay and lesbian culture to prevent marginalization.
• Will there ever be a universal treatment of gays and lesbians in all parts of the world?
• Are we able to transcend sexual nationalism and treat all people equally irrespective of their sexuality and sexual preferences?