Political Gay Science: Nietzsche, Conservatism, and Nonbinary Identity

• In Event: Topics in Gender and Politics

Brief Overview

The paper argues that U.S. conservatives use Nietzschean ressentiment to portray nonbinary and trans people as threats, mobilizing panic over pathology, pronouns, and restrooms to construct a new politics of gendered scapegoating.

Author

• Alexander Sieber, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee