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@AnnaJunePage Ooh that sounds interesting!
I think the biggest thing I've taken from my queer theory background is to stop assuming I know how relationships/roles/social structures work in any given text based on what I assume the identities or roles of characters are, and look at how they're ACTUALLY being constructed within THAT text (as it may vary between texts), with an openness to parallels between characters whose surface-level traits are dissimilar.
@AnnaJunePage Yeah, it's something they and I have been discussing for a while! Kind of related to my paper for this conference, in that I'm partly looking at how solely centring gender in discussions of female characters and their relationships and role often obscures the equal or greater importance of class in structuring those roles and interpersonal connections. (And what unlearning heteronormativity has to do with revealing those dimensions.)
@sevmunro It's a very busy time of year! Hence why I have not actually started writing my paper yet :') and I'm away for the long weekend so it's going to be Interesting fitting it in, oops. I had such good intentions and they have come to naught.
@AnnaJunePage I need to finish reading the rest of the articles in it myself! I read Emmet's at an earlier stage but I haven't read the finished version yet.
RE: https://library.love/@sevmunro/116600864632048107
I'm presenting at this, online! (Can't make the journey on this occasion alas.)
It is going to be a VERY last minute paper at this rate but it's building on one I published in Studia Celtica Fennica a few months ago.
