In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Chandan Reddy, author of the "queer" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr Reddy talks about his own history as a queer activist, the development of the concept of queer of color critique, and the many usages of queer both theoretically and politically.

Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.

Chandan Reddy (he/him) is associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

• Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org)
  
  Reddy, Chandan. Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. (https://www.dukeupress.edu/Freedom-with-Violence/)
  
  Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45.2 (2013): 336-339. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43302999)
  
  Ferguson, Roderick. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/aberrations-in-black)