Queer Environs
“Queer Environs” Special Issue for Diacritics, edited by Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymour
Both noun and verb, “environ” points to what’s “out there,” one’s milieu or surrounding world, the assemblage of human and more-than-human beings in which one finds oneself situated, as well as the activity of encircling an area to enclose, circumnavigate, or occupy it. So too, “queer,” as noun and verb, derives its original meaning from space, referring to something that is oblique, slanted, or off-center.
Taking the spatial dimensions at stake in the ...