During my PhD I investigated the notion of queer critique and the discontents with it, focusing in particular on the work of Michel Foucault, on Judith Butler's and Eve K. Sedgwick's understandings of critique, and on new strands in queer and literary theory such as postcritique and a queer theory without antinormativity. I argue that the growing discontents with critical practices, in queer theory and in other fields of minority knowledge, are due to the stagnation of critique. We need to find resources to move beyond our critical routines.

Currently, I continue to explore possible resources to overcome the limits of critique. Starting from Sedgwick's ‘paranoid reading' and ‘reparative reading’, I wonder if there is something that can help us reimagine critique beyond ‘paranoia’ and ‘reparation’. I also dive into the late Foucault who conceives of critique in terms of ‘parrhesia’ or truth-telling to undo some of the misconceptions about what critique is to him. Lastly, inspired by the work of Robyn Wiegman, I explore the logic of critique that structures all fields of minority knowledge and shapes the  way in which we – gender studies practitioners – understand the theoretical-political work we do.

Next to investigate the inner challenges queer critique is facing, I am interested in the attacks to queer and feminist knowledge coming from right-wing, authoritarian, anti-gender and anti-feminist actors. I study the claims and strategies of these actors as well as the counterclaims and counterstrategies by (trans)feminist and LGBTIQ+ constituencies. Additionally, I am interested in the uncanny convergencies between the two – i.e., between some anti-gender, anti-feminist discourses and segments of the feminist and queer camp.