Hey there and welcome to the new discourses podcast. This is James Lindsay and we're going

to do something different today. You know, I like to read the literature. So we're going

to read the literature. So it's not that different. But what we're going to do is we're going

to dip out of this literally interminable critical education and critical pedagogy series that

I'm doing and we're going to dip into queer theory. So, you know, some of you will have heard

the grammar schools podcast series and you will have heard that summary of how both the

Marxists, you know, have used sexual education of children to destabilize society. You will

have heard the paper, if you've listened to the second part of that series by Hannah

Dyer explaining about how queer theory should remold early childhood education and childhood

development theories so that we teach sex to children earlier. You will have heard a

few listen to the third part of that series, how the sex aspect of this or queer aspect,

queer theory aspect of this and the critical race theory aspects work kind of like a one

and two punch to reproduce Mao's identity based radicalization program. What we are going

to do today, those were going to go to roots. We're going to do something. I should have

done a long time ago. It's just there's so many things to do, so many different topics

to hit. I'm not going to read a contemporary queer theory paper. I'm not going to read

a fair particularly shocking, although it is shocking, but a particularly shocking queer

theory paper. In fact, I'm not going to read a paper that's technically even labeled

as queer theory. I'm going to read the paper that's considered to be the essay that's

considered to be the first queer theory paper, which is called Thinking Sex by Gail Rubin

written in 1984. So this is some time ago, I mean, just to not to put too fine a point

on it, but 1984 was nearly 30 years ago, trying not to think about that if you're feeling

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