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Eric Gonzaba

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2 Apr, 2 tweets, 1 min read

Why did I learn this *very* specific lesson in school?

I can’t do long division to save a life, but you better believe I don’t pass a Corinthian column without audibly commenting to uninterested people that it’s a Corinthian column

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Eric Gonzaba

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15 Jan 19

Idea: Instead of trying to add LGBT content to your courses, consider queering up your entire syllabus. What do the people on the margins in your lectures tell us about your field? The so called "abnormal"? The ones that didn't belong? #twitterstorians

Queer history isn't just looking for non-heterosexual histories. It means looking at how normality produced both oppression and resistance among those who were different. As Professor Lee Edelman suggested, "Queerness can never define an identity; it can only ever disturb one.”

So yes, let's tell the stories of gay and lesbian activists like Harvey Milk and Barbara Gittings but queerness is also the story of male flight attendants, interracial couples of the South, those entrepreneurs who ran porn cinemas, and women who ran abortion clinics before Roe

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