Blog posts tagged ‘Dossier: Queer Futures Prizes’

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The singer Chapell Roan in a red silk dress, gesturing exuberantly at the Hollywood Palladium in 2022.

Queering Femininity One Camp Gesture at a Time

Irene Neophytou's blog, adapted from her essay which won first prize in the 2025 Queer Futures competition, analyses how artists queer gender by appropriating its coded gestures, amplifying them to the point of rupture, and thereby generate a liminal, defiant space.
An art installation at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Centre, NYC.

Mother? I Hardly Know Her!: Manipulating Gendered Language and ‘Mothering’ in the LGBTQ+ Community

In this runner-up Queer Futures Prize-winning essay, Lucy Wilson offers a historical analysis of current social media use of the term ‘mother’, arguing how LGBTQ+ subcultures manipulate gendered language to subvert conventional understandings of family and create community.
Portrait of a young woman said to be Sappho

The Erotic Reception of Sappho

In this blog - adapted from an essay which won an honourable mention for the 2025 Queer Futures prize - Elisha Sellick explores how Sappho’s voice reaches across millennia to challenge our modern habits of seeing and performing, offering instead a lyric of presence, tenderness, and reciprocity.
Photo of the front cover of Leah Thomas' book 'The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet'

The making of a truly ‘Intersectional Environmentalist’

Bradley Stevens’ essay received an Honourable Mention in the 2024 Queer Futures Prize for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Queer Studies.  This prize seeks to acknowledge and celebrate thoughtful and […]
Abstract illustration by Helen Garner.

Our Queer Future and An Asexual Path to Get There

Mika Misawa’s essay won the 2nd Prize in the 2024 Queer Futures Prize for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Queer Studies.  This prize seeks to acknowledge and celebrate thoughtful and […]
Photo of Elliana Effird in front of a cherry blossom tree.

Queer Mycology’s Meta-Analysis: Fungi Roll Queer Studies to the Edge of Theory

Elliana Efird’s essay won the 1st Prize in the 2024 Queer Futures Prize for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Queer Studies.  This prize seeks to acknowledge and celebrate thoughtful and […]

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