QSX 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White Supremacy, Gay Liberation, Heterosexuality
10 Oct 2018
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History of Queer
Word used to signify something strange, refer to negative characteristics, abusive slang for
homosexual,
Reclamation effort to denote one’s strangeness positively
Reclaimed, it has become an umbrella term, (queer) or to signify lesbian, trans, bi, cross
dressers, intersex
Queer focuses on a mismatch between sex, gender and desire
Defining identity as a constellation of multiple and unstable positions
Problems with the term queer-
Masculinity at its heart
Does it fail to consider material realities
Does it replicate with a kind of historical amnesia the stances and demands of gay liberation?
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Representation… and the circulation of images
Ideology
• White supremacy
• Patriarchy- male supremacy
• Compulsory Heterosexuality
Reinforced through the Institutions, media, government, churches, schools,
Representation-
How are groups being depicted or constructed?
What stereotypes are being called upon?
What messages are being sent?
Hoe is power being acted out here?
