Digital World

12 Cyberqueer perspectives on rights and activism

Tracy Simmons

 

Introduction

Cyberqueer perspectives enable exploration of the relationship between technology and sexuality based on a theoretical paradigm that makes a virtue of its looseness, its ability to critique and transcend identity boundaries (Bryson 2004; Wakeford 1997). Cyberqueer connects the queer and a deconstructive and anti-normative theoretical approach to the potential opening up of diverse spaces and forms of association online. I argue that these activities take place within what is usefully understood as the ‘anarchic’ informational space of the Internet (Youngs 2007: 83). The horizontal, networking capacities of the Internet coalesce with and enable a wide range of political ...