by Laura Borchert (Author)
Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about >the Queer
Author Biography
Laura Borchert, born in 1989, is a research associate (postdoc) in the DFG-funded project ?Human Rights Discourses in Migrant Societies? and works as a lecturer at Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en's English Department. Borchert was a member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) in Gie?en as well as the Gie?ener Graduiertenzentrum Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften (GGS). Her research is situated in queer studies, queer legal theory, law and X, and American cultural studies.