QUEER EXAM REVIEW.docx - QR problematizes and challenges...

- QR problematizes and challenges rigid categories and ideologies, norms, exposing the
structure that benefit from such hegemony
- QR focused on mechanism of power involved in othering, in drawing a distinction
between normal and deviant, in all categorization
- Queer has become offensive. Butler: queer has operated as one linguistic practice whose
purpose has been the shaming of the subject it names, or rather, the producing of a
subject through that shaming interpellation
- Queer shames subject
QUEER EXAM REVIEW
● Crawley, wilcox, race, ability and disability, religion, connect?
● Combine affect (Ahmed) with christmas effect (sedgwick)
● Queer politics, critical queer
● Constructively queer, critically queer?
○ Constructive: umbrella for this other basic thrust within queer studies- trying
○ Warners quote
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Compulsory hetersexuality: Rich, butler, lorde, ahmed, petro (stop the church)
● Idea that hetersexuality is assumed and enforced by a patriarchal and heteronormative
society
Constructive queer: sedgwick
● umbrella for this other basic thrust within queer studies
Political queer:
● calls for revolution and unity
● Queer politics defines larger community when folks can come together to create a force
to change society, that is why it is productive
Critically queer: butler
● addition to queers failure to focus on materiality, it has also failed to acknowledge
consistently and critically the intellectual, aesthetic, and political contribution of
nonwhite and non-middle-class gays” (5).
Epistemology: Sedgwick, haraway
● Normativity celebrated, people have super good memories and items but there's a group
of people who don't have that
● Compulsory affect- holidays are a time for feeling certain things
○ Heteronormative family, connection with parents
○ Can be painful and traumatic for queer folks
Performativity : Judith butler, Crawley?
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Normativity : Heteronormativity is a Big factor in terms of what is deemed as “right” in society

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Christmas Effec t- Segwi
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Affect - Ahmed
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Erotic- Lorde
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Drag-
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Crip Theory - Mcruer
● Disability culture
● Queer culture
● Working with their term that is derived from cripple, derogatory word just like queer
● Crip theory: an intersectionality identity politically stemming from disability studies,
queer studies, etc.
● Crip theory like queer theory attends to the experiences that don't fit in the client
categories that we have so if queer theory is world divided between homo and heter in
that didntt even begin to attend to the complxxtit yn0 gdender and desire
● Crip also looks at the inadequate mapping of the world that we get form able bodied and
disabled a lot of people have claimed crip, term stretchy enough to describe their
experiences
Judith Butler
Judith Butler for instance, argues that one’s identity develops, is constituted in time through a
stylized repetition of acts. She argued that language is performative and it begins when one is
born. “It is a boy/girl” is a performative act, as in the years following the baby is a process of