Based on Judith Halberstam’s reading‚ The Queer Art of Failure and Homosexuality and Facism‚ we live in a predominantly binary world. There are usually only two options for most things. For example‚ girl or boy‚ yes or no‚ succeed or fail…etc. For example‚ Halberstam mentions at the beginning of the reading that we have winners and losers in this world. The‚ “...losers leave no records‚ while winners cannot stop talking about it‚ and so the record of failure is ‘a hidden history of pessimism in a
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Queer Culture of Southeast Asia. When discussing queer culture in modern times‚ it is automatically classified as a western idea. Queer identities and queer struggles are associated with whiteness‚ as a white concept. This is one of the many causes of colonization‚ and how in some way it erased the history of oppressed communities. However‚ pre-colonization history indicates that queer culture had been developed within ancient civilizations. If we look at ancient civilizations in Latin America
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The “Normal” and the Queer: Issues With Media Representation The importance of popular media representation is often underestimated to the average eye. Television‚ movies‚ books‚ and video games are just a few of the many examples of media to are available to an increasingly growing audience. Although forms of media are not reality‚ they are representations‚ a looking glass for society at large to identify with and see themselves in. How many times have we watched a big-time action flick and
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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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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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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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Psychoanalytical criticism‚ the field of literary criticism most notably developed by Sigmund Freud’s psychological theories‚ reached its peak in the 1940’s and 1950’s. His widespread recognition stemmed from Freudian concepts such as the Oedipal complex‚ which came from his book An Interpretation of Dreams written in 1899. This theory developed by Freud says that at a very young age a child can generate an intense feeling of love for the parent of opposite sex‚ and an almost extreme dislike for
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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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This essay attempts to discover how Freud’s psychoanalytical accounts of human nature can bring us to a deeper understanding of the family relationships at work in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare and Freudian theory in Hamlet and Titus Andronicus In 1900 the eminent Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud produced a seminal work entitled The Interpretation of Dreams which contains the idea that dreams allow psychic exploration of the soul‚ that dreams contain psychological
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In Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ there are a wide array of themes. The most important being that of appearance vs. reality. This theme is consistent throughout the play‚ and spawns the other themes .It also incorporates all the major motifs in the play. The theme is strengthened by the use of symbolism and enables the reader to predict future events in the play. Without the theme of appearance versus reality‚ the play would lack plot‚ action‚ and intrigue‚ causing readers to lose interest. The
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