final thoughts
There were a number of things that this class taught me. One thing that I found really useful was the ability to take the theory I read about and then to apply it to advertisement and media I see daily. This has given me to theory in which I can look critically at the world around me.
This class has also helped me in my activist work. Many of the theory that we read has application in the area of queer activist. Issues of race, class and gender affect us all, and the works written by many feminist activists have application in a vast array of social movements. Many of the theory can be applied to activists fighting for a new queer collective identity. The LGBT community today is a community were members are designated a letter then are at war with each other and within their own subgroups. My vision for the future of the community is where the factions can come together to form a new queer identity. A new queer identity that reaches across sexuality and gender lines on the issues that effect us all breaks out of single identity politics, that strives for grassroots community building, that fights against assimilation, that fights against political apathy, and one that fights against the destructive elements of heteronormativity. We can use our diversity as an asset to strengthen a movement of transformative social change. No longer will the letters of LGBT be fractured, but united in the experiences with we share. As queers we can move beyond single identity politics and work towards a new global future. A new global future that fights for the social equality of people across lines of gender, race, class and sexuality, these lines will become blurred lessening the effectiveness of wedge politics. As queers we can be part of something large, where all marginalized people take action, and the disenfranchised take to the streets creating something revolutionary.