According to author and academic Kathryn Bond Stockton, "gender is queer for everyone." When she says "queer" she doesn't mean only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means the dictionary definition: strange. "Gender is strange," she writes, "even when it's played straight."In her new book, "Gender(s)," she takes a questioning approach and encourages her readers to do the same.
Stockton, a dean and English professor who teaches queer theory and theories of racialized gender at the University of Utah, asserts that gender is always racialized ("Gender norms in this country have been white norms") and is intimately associated with money.