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For decades, queer poets have used humor as a cutting rhetorical tool. Humor as survival, seduction, subversion. Throwing jokes like bricks in the face of oppression. This panel will explore humor as a serious element of craft—often overlooked but central to queer poetics. Wit, camp, sarcasm, raunch, gallows humor: What do they do on the page? Pulling from their own work, this panel will explore humor as shield, scalpel, and sucker punch.