The HBS hosts chat with Dr. Ladelle McWhorter about the evolution of "queer" as an identity category and a verb.Once only used as a slur with unambiguously negative valences, the noun "queer" has been reappropriated by (many) members of the LGBTQIA+ community as referring to a positive, even celebrated, notion of self-identity.... but the history of the term "queer" is complicated. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond) about that complicated history, including how "queer" as a social/political identity category may (or may not?) be in tension with its philosophical/theoretical use, including and especially the notion of "queer-ing" (verb) to indicate the very disruption of stable categories of identity themselves.Our guest for this episode, Dr. Ladelle McWhorter, is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (1999), Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy (2009), and Heidegger and the Earth Essays in Environmental Philosophy (2009). You can follow Dr. McWhorter on Twitter at @lmcwhort!Full episode notes available at this link:http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-59-queers----------------SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions on Patreon at this link:https://www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessi...FOLLOW Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/hotelbarpodcastFOLLOW Charles F. Peterson on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/c_fpetersonFOLLOW Leigh M. Johnson on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DrLeighMJohnsonFOLLOW Rick Lee on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rickleephilosLIKE Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/hotelbarsess...VISIT the Hotel Bar Sessions webpage here: http://hotelbarpodcast.com/