General Summary: Professor Stacey Waite talks about a recemt chapter on “How and Why to Write Queer” with undergraduate students UT students. These students reflect on Waite’s chapter and the connection between rhetoric and queerness along with the impact the chapter has on the audience’s understanding of the title’s statement.

Detailed Summary: (2:25,5:25) Waite on writing which enacts itself and the importance of play in writing; (5:26,9:52) Waite on the precarious nature of queer pedagogy, and queerness in general, within institutional contexts; (9:53, 15:43) Waite on their rules for queer writing, and on queer writing as a means of challenging established norms; (15:44, -23:08) Waite on the diminishment of the affective in scholarship and society as a whole; (23:10, 25,44) Waite on the

important of the audience in writing.

Scholarly Article Informing this Production: Waite, Stacey. “HOW (AND WHY) TO WRITE QUEER: A Failing, Impossible, Contradictory Instruction Manual for Scholars of Writing Studies”, Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects, University Press of Colorado, 2019, pp. 42-53.

Credits: This podcast was produced by Abbigail Joy, Jordan Grant, Kaitlin Sime, Kevin Lips, and Liv Dartu with resources and assistance provided

by the Digital Writing and Research Lab (Links to an external site.) at the University of Texas at Austin. It features the voices of Stacey Waite, Kaitlin Sime, Liv Dartu, and Jordan Grant. Editing performed by Abby Joy and Kevin Lips. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround,” was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and appropriated under Creative Commons 1.0 license.