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postqueer en · ADJ

Etymology

From post- + queer.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) After the establishment of the queer (homosexual, bisexual, transgender, etc.) movement, or queer theory.
    • This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation. 2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory: