Queering Outer Space

Abstract

How can queer and other minority or marginalized people stake a claim in human futures in space? This paper reflects on the challenges, opportunities, scenarios, and interventions involved as we try to queer the increasingly corporate and military human exploration of and engagement with outer space. I suggest that we must go further than academically interrogating the military and corporate narratives of space “exploration” and “colonization.” We must also water, fertilize, and tend the seeds of alternative visions of possible futures in space, not only seeking solutions to earthly problems of the moment, but actively queering outer space and challenging the future to be even more queer. Keywords: Queer Theory, Space, Anthropology, Colonialism, Mars, SETI Please Cite as: Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2015. “Queering Outer Space.” SocArXiv, Open Science Framework. Manuscript, submitted January 22, 2017. osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/mpyk6/

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Paper DOI

10.31235/osf.io/mpyk6

License

CC-By Attribution 4.0 International

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences Anthropology Social and Cultural Anthropology

Tags

Anthropology Colonialism Mars Queer Theory SETI Space