José Esteban Muñoz
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Sep 15, 2026
Ellie AndersonHOST
It's about challenging the problem of sexism, which we're all socialized to accept in our thoughts and actions from the time we're born.
Ellie AndersonHOST
She invites us to imagine, what would society be like if we changed our own sexist thoughts and actions? How could the world transform for the better if we transformed ourselves first? Similarly, scholar José Muñoz invites the LGBTQ plus community to embrace utopian thinking as a source of hope and joy.
Ellie AndersonHOST
In his book Cruising Utopia, he argues that queer literature, art, and drag shows offer a kind of utopian map, a way of dreaming up other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.
Ellie AndersonHOST
Queerness challenges how things are, and models something different and better.
BarksHOST
[electronic music] In 2009, a scholar named José Esteban Muñoz opened a book with a sentence that sounds, at first, like a contradiction.
BarksHOST
"Queerness," he wrote, "is not yet here, not a fact about who you are today, but an orientation towards something that has not arrived." He was not describing the absence of queer people, obviously.
BarksHOST
He was describing queerness as a horizon, a way of living turned toward a future current conditions will not allow, rather than a settled identity satisfied with whatever rights the present is willing to grant it.
Ashley NewbyHOST
I mean,
Mabel O. WilsonGUEST
I could take, I took a Saturday night class with Jose Munoz, Jose's first class at NYU, Juanima Lubiano taught a class.
Mabel O. WilsonGUEST
I mean, it was a really great, Arthur Jafa was sort of hanging out, Mancha Diawar.
Mabel O. WilsonGUEST
I mean, there were just these phenomenal people, you know, who were kind of in and out of, you know, the spaces there.