SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Close Reading, Heteronormativity, Deconstruction
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Read the following quotes and analyze them with your group given the active and close reading tools you have just discussed. Thus, even in the name of destabilization, some queer activists have begun to prioritize sexuality as the primary frame through which they pursue their politics. Undoubtedly, within different contexts various characteristics of our total being for example, race, gender, class, sexuality are highlighted or called on to make sense of a particular situation. This is not because i do not consider myself an activist; in fact, i hold my political work to be one of the most important contributions i make to all of my communities. But like other lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered activists of color, i find the label queer"" fraught with unspoken assumptions that inhibit the radical political potential of this category (cohen, Cohen, c. j. (2005) punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens: the radical. In johnson e. p and henderson m. (eds) black.
