Eve Sedgwick

by Caroline

Queer theory groundbreaker and literary theorist Eve Sedgwick has died of breast cancer. On her chosen field:

“It’s about trying to understand different kinds of sexual desire and how the culture defines them,” she told The New York Times in 1998, explaining the function of queer theory. “It’s about how you can’t understand relations between men and women unless you understand the relationship between people of the same gender, including the possibility of a sexual relationship between them.”

Sedgwick was a luminary.

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  1. tycho says:

    I learned this from you.

    /me laments

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