COMM 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 8: Performativity, Intersectionality, Ressentiment
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Week 8 eve sedgwick tendencies queer and now. Epistemologies: denial to sexually active adolescents of information, support, etc to protect themselves from hiv transmission, systematic separation of children from queer adults. 26% of young gay men had been forced to leave home due to conflicts w/parents over sexual identity. Young gays/lesbians = of us homeless youth: systematic denial. Us dpt of health & human services pressured by congress not to release recommendations regarding stats on triple incidence of lgbt youth suicide. Congress defunded survey of adolescent sexual behavior. Promising, smuggling, reading, overreading: surviving living into threat, stigma, violence, fear. Guilt, glee, responsibility: childhood attach intently to a few cultural objects as resource for survival. Needed sites where (cid:862)(cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs did(cid:374)(cid:859)t li(cid:374)e up tidil(cid:455) (cid:449)ith ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396)(cid:863) (3) Straight-defined students sense of entitlement: felt it was their inalienable right to have different lives, histories, cultures unfolded for maximum legibility to themselves. Did(cid:374)(cid:859)t u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d that othe(cid:396) stude(cid:374)ts(cid:859) su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al (cid:449)as at stake.
