 In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, “queer” emerged as a reclamation of a homophobic slur and a rallying cry for a coalition of the marginalized against the tyranny of the normal (Barker &amp; Scheele 2016; D. Hall &amp; Jagose 2012; Warner 1993; Sedgwick 1993; Anzaldúa 1991 [2009]). Formed in the crucible of the AIDS crisis, which sharpened the need to understand the violence experienced by people excluded by norms related to gender and sexuality, “queer” was meant to bring attention to the range of sexual/gender practices deemed outside the purview of the normal. In one genealogy of queer theory, the field develops this early activist reclamation of the term queer into a wide-reaching critique of how norms operate in and through dominant conceptualizations of identity. Given this motivating impulse of deconstruction, or of denaturalizing categories such as sexuality, it is perhaps of no surprise that queer theory has historically been a field well-populated with figures (e.g., Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) and methodological approaches (poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology) that have been associated with Continental philosophy, especially twentieth century European philosophy.