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Without Closets: A Queer And Feminist Re-Imagining Of Narratives Of Queer Experience, Julia Golda Harris
Without Closets: A Queer And Feminist Re-Imagining Of Narratives Of Queer Experience, Julia Golda Harris
Honors Papers
This project employs a queer and feminist lens to critique the prominence of the coming-out narrative in discourses surrounding queer life experiences, and configures alternative ways of thinking about these experiences. I conducted on-campus interviews with queer-identifying women about their identities and experiences with visibility and disclosure. I investigate in this project both the role that the coming-out narrative plays in shaping these stories and the radical possibilities embedded within these stories for new types of narrative. Guided by queer theory's complicated relationship with the notion of identity, I define and employ the concept of "queer alignment" as an alternative …