Queerying Occultures: Essays from Enfolding Vol. 1

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Britt, L., & Heise, D. (2000). From shame to pride in identity politics. In S. Stryker, T. J. Owens, & R. W. White (Eds.), Self, identity, and social movements (pp. 252–268). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

In this blog post I want to outline two ways in which queer(y)ing policy might be useful. Firstly, a practical point that if government wants to make lives better, then we need to understand how LGBTQ+/queer lives are different and how government might support them better. Secondly, and to be more 'academic' about it, I want to suggest that queer(y)ing policy can be a useful tool for analysis in understanding policy problems and policy implementation better. Understanding queer lives Query language is what allows us to actually take action on databases. It allows us to create, read, update and delete items on our database, as well as more advanced queries like filtering and counting. Nyanzi also points to another matter of importance: the dominance of anglophone perspectives in perceiving queer lives in both activism and scholarship (Nyanzi Reference Nyanzi and Matabeni2014; see also Matebeni Reference Matebeni and Matebeni2014). In fact, she explicitly argues for a break with the anglophone acronym LGBT+. While this discourse is pervasive and while many, especially younger generations, find recognition in the idea that one's object of erotic desire defines what one ‘is’ (this does not apply to the ‘T’ – transgender), for many others – those who do not speak English or do not have access to the internet, for example – it has little or no resonance with their lives. Inspired by Nyanzi's call for ‘queering queer Africa’, we propose to reject queerness as an end goal tied to outcomes that are standardized. Rather than circumventing the question of identity, we wish to situate it within the history of unequal encounters in a globalizing world where certain groups find recognition in movements based on identity politics while others do not. Thus, we hope to recognize the affordances and opportunities in environments that are usually dismissed as homophobic or closeted (cf. Dankwa Reference Dankwa2021). In this way, we can pay attention to what Macharia calls the ‘circulating indifference of conceptual frames to Africa's lived experience’ ( Reference Macharia2016: 185) and definitively break away from hegemonic ways of understanding queer in identarian terms. Footnote 4 As Oudenhuijsen analyses in this issue, it is important not to take people's usage of terms such as ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’ or ‘queer’ as self-evident but to queery how they appropriate them. People's lives are contradictory and complex, and rather than seeing messiness as a hindrance, it can also be appreciated for its heuristic and exploratory breadth. Now, let’s suppose you have collected some data from a survey. Below is a snippet of your data. Note that for this example, we will use an SQL database.

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Wiegman, R., & Wilson, E. A. (2015). Antinormativity’s queer conventions. Differences, 26(1), 1–25. These relations are defined by the database schema, which specifies the relation between various entities and the organization of data for the entities.Formulated by a computer scientist at IBM in the 1970s, Query By Example (QBE) is a filtering or search system for databases where there was no need to use a query language.

Historically, queer was a word that referred to something as odd or strange. As the verb form of queer, queering can refer to the act of taking something and looking at it through a lens that makes it strange or troubles it in some way. [6] By the 1940s (in the United States), queer came to be used in reference to sexuality that deviated from heterosexual norms. [7] It was in the period of the late 1980s and early 1990s when LGBT AIDS activist groups, such as Act Up and Queer Nation, began to reclaim the term queer as a positive identifier and as a process of questioning mainstream ideas about what was considered normal. [1] [2] [3] Cathy Cohen argues that groups like these also extended the use of queer to move past “assimilationist tendencies" present in AIDS activism. [2] This is based on sentiments expressed by groups like Queer Nation who felt that queer as a word and a sentiment was too focused on assimilation of non- normative sexualities and identities. [2] Within such groups, queer as a noun was reclaimed again to mean something radical. Queering then became a tool for social and political subversion of dominant culture. Because it is rooted in queer theory, it is also closely tied into queer politics and queer activism. [1] Web search query refers to keywords that users type in the search engine, while database query is a particular action to make a request for information.This allows us to perform logic with the information we get in response to the query. There are several different approaches to queries, from using query strings, to writing with a query language, or using a QBE like GraphQL or REST. In a broader scene, the INSERT INTO query inserts data into the MySQL database via MySQLi and PHP Data Object. However, this example will show how to use the query to add a new row to a database table. Persson, Anna Bark, Home and Hell: Representation of Female Masculinity in Action-Driven Science Fiction, vol.Lambda Nordica