CHYS 2P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vivek Shraya, David M. Halperin, Disability Studies
14 May 2018
School
Department
Course
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About indigenous women's
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Example of presenting
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DJ's- video called sisters
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Tribe Called Red
WATCH MOONLIGHT
Colonialism
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Genocide
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2 weeks of trauma
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Last week on gender
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"generalize" and How to Get Away with Murder
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Queerness and sideways growth
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Multiple identities
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It is important to have an intersectional approach when discussing children
development
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The ways that different social forces intersect to make us who we are
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Intersectionality
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Review
Condition outside the normative
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Is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant… ‘Queer’ then,
demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-à-vis the normative”
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- David Halperin, 1997
Queer
Growing up is a privilege
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Who gets to grow-up?
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A metaphor to describe that some children grow sideways instead of up
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Those who don’t according to Kathryn Bond Stockton, grow sideways
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Can you be a grown up if your poor?
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Discussed in disability studies
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Sideways Growth
(all children are a little bit ‘queer’, according to Stockton)
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Children who exceed or contradict definitions of ‘normalcy’
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Normative definition of childhood relies on innocence then if they aren't innocent they are
considered queer
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Children who aren’t ‘innocent’
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Children who grow sideways instead of ‘up’
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The 'Queer' Child
They don’t know what to do
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Parents are nervous and ambivalent
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The parents let the children lead
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Undermine the hierarchy between child and adulthood
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Puberty
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Material choices that have to be made collectively
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Hormone blockers
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The body changes
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MOM IM NOT A GIRL
The art that she makes is for the childhood that is almost lost
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Do you ever thank yourself for protecting little you?
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"Be who you needed when you were younger"
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More than a he or she
Selfies: as a photo I get to be me
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Vivek Shraya
Week 9- Gender and Sexuality
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