Issues of discrimination to transgender also occur outside of detention centers. Kit Yan shared the social injustices he experienced as a queer‚ transgender‚ and Asian American in his performance Queer Heartache. He became aware of the unacceptance of transgenders in the US when he expressed his newfound queer identity through rainbow stickers on his new Jeep Cherokee. As a result‚ his lights were smashes and tires were broken. Like transgender detainees‚ Yan was out casted and assigned to a secluded
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Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward
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The queer communities and the communities of color in Los Angeles have a common history of police violence. Their geographic proximity during the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ exposed them to the same heavy policing in the form of "vice" entrapments‚ which were motivated not only by the police’s need to control the queer community‚ but also to stop interracial relationships. The struggles of these two groups were put in evidence in the 1952 case of Horace Martinez and his friends. Martinez was using the restroom
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Terrorist assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times by Jabir k. Puar discusses the dynamic intersections between queer‚ postcolonial and poststructuralist theory. By postulating a radical view of queer theory‚ her work challenges the oppositional discourse within and outside the LGBT cultures. She states in first chapter‚ “(…) “U.S. sexual exceptionalism‚” a narrative claiming the successful management of life in regard to a people‚ what is now joined by an exceptional form of national homonormativity
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In nearly every notable fandom‚ regardless of media popularity or media form‚ there is at least one popular “slash” relationship that rules the minds‚ hearts‚ and‚ occasionally‚ the genitals of its devoted fans. “Slash relationships”‚ in general‚ are constructed when fans of a media place two presumably. or explicitly‚ heterosexual characters of the same sex in a romantic relationship that generally has not been acknowledged within the source media. In season one of NBC’s psychological thriller Hannibal
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“Queer”‚ once a slang for “odd” or “abnormal”‚ before it was attributed to lesbian and gay men as a homophobic insult‚ now portrays a spectrum of academic modalities and acknowledges the lives of thousands of fluid gendered peoples. Essentially‚ Queer Studies is the examination of issues pertaining to and intersectionality of gender‚ sexual orientation‚ gender identity‚ race‚ class‚ and ethnicity—revolving around ubiquitous structural and institutional inequality. Lisa Duggans in her article “Making
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In the article “Freaks and Queers” by Eli Clare‚ the author discusses the origins and history of freak shows where “freaks”‚ “savages” and “geeks” were essentially the cause of big entertainments and businesses. Four main groups of people were categorized into “freaks”‚ which included disabled people‚ both white people and people of colour‚ nondisabled people of colour‚ nondisabled people of colour from the United States and nondisabled people with physically visible differences. Many were oppressed
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Courtly Love and Trans Critique: An Extended Review of “Courtly and Queer” by Charlie Samuelson In "Courtly and Queer‚" Charlie Samuelson confronts assumptions about courtly literature‚ complicitly constructing patriarchal hegemony by unearthing the inherent deconstructive queerness at its core. His interdisciplinary approach integrates literary‚ medieval‚ and queer studies by juxtaposing modern queer theory with high medieval French verse romances (romans) and late medieval French dits about courtly
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Trapped: The Dilemma of the African American Homosexual Colin Chastain April 1‚ 2013 Dr. Wayne Brekhus Sociology 3300: Queer Theories Introduction When someone hears the word “gay” or “queer”‚ they most often think of the middle class‚ Caucasian gay male. For my research proposal‚ I plan on studying what is very often overlooked in queer identity: the struggle of queer identity in the African American gay male. I am interested in studying this because I grew up knowing I was gay in a small
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It is a terrible yet bittersweet coincidence that I am writing a response to Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized
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