Queering Queer Theory
“It is therefore correct that
every European, in what he
could say about the Orient,
was consequently a racist,
an imperialist, and almost
totally ethnocentric.”
—Edward Said, Orientalism
According to Miss Said—
Orientalist discourse is
Racist and condescending
As well as dehumanizing—
Feminizing and “essentialist”
Oh, that mysterious “essence”
Invariably homosexual—
Jean-Léon Gérôme’s portrait
Simply telling it all
Such queenly Uranian—
Imaginary constructions
Impervious to reality
Indeed designed to—
Ignore actual knowledge
And experience of Others
Creating instead a gay—
Peter Pan Flying Carpet
Fantasy for Pedophilia
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