{"id":143,"date":"2025-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/?p=143"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:45:29","slug":"queer-russian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2025\/04\/22\/queer-russian-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Russian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-20.52.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-20.52.56.jpg 636w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-20.52.56-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-20.52.56-110x150.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(7,212,227) 0%,rgba(221,81,224,0.41) 100%)\">The fate of the queer community in the Russian Empire, in the USSR and in modern day Russia has been characterized by constant twists and turns between decriminalization and \u201cre-criminalization\u201d (1917, 1934, 1994) with the final blow being the 2013 \u201cpropaganda law\u201d (expanded in 2022) forbidding the \u201cpromotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors\u201d \u2013 that is, restricting and potentially criminalizing any open discussion of queer topics. Homophobic Russian rhetoric emphasizes the supposedly recent and foreign nature of LGBTQ identity and ideas and embraces the popular view that homosexuality is essentially un-Russian. On the other hand, Western discourse often orientalizes Russia as \u2018traditional\u2019,\u2018premodern\u2019 or \u2018underdeveloped\u2019 and positions it as the West\u2019s \u2018Other\u2019 in its homophobia. This course, which considers queer Russian literature from modernist to contemporary authors, pushes back against both of these restrictive points of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Offered Fall 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of the queer community in the Russian Empire, in the USSR and in modern day Russia has been characterized by constant twists and turns between decriminalization and \u201cre-criminalization\u201d (1917, 1934, 1994) with the final blow being the 2013 \u201cpropaganda law\u201d (expanded in 2022) forbidding the \u201cpromotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors\u201d \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5357,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,19],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","tag-content-course","tag-fall-2025"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-20.52.56.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}