Research into Queer Studies is on the rise throughout American Liberal Arts colleges. The struggle of being queer in America is only getting more difficult as the public believes that the rights they have are “good enough.” The ruling that they can marry didn’t signify the success of the queer movement‚ rather it signified the death of it. It is becoming ever more difficult for them to cross social and legal barriers that need to be destroyed because of this. For example‚ they might be able to marry
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of queer people undeniably makes an appearance in media‚ advertisements‚ and daily life‚ but is it undeserved? Queer people exist as a minority group that have a different relationship with sex and gender than their heterosexual‚ cisgender counterparts. The only differentiating factor between the two is sexuality. Sexual orientation is‚ by default‚ an inherently sexual portion of an individual’s identity which directly results in the presentation of queer people as hypersexual. When queer people
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Queer theology has developed in a period of increased acceptance of diversity in Western culture. While homophobia remains a relevant factor in queer theology‚ hostility and intolerance is increasingly being pushed to the margins. In this context the development of theologies of liberation has afforded queer approaches a voice. This must be tempered with the reality of inclusiveness‚ because the greater the recognition‚ the greater its effect on oppressing those that continue to sit at its margins
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question of how gayness was recognized in the 90s. “Queers Read This” presents gayness as anti-straight; the straights are othered and the two communities‚ cultures and identities are set-up to be irreconcilably different from one another‚ where straightness is understood as a lack of queerness. “We must look at our lives and see what’s best in them‚ see the queer and what is straight and let that straight chaff fall away.” Both the term “queer” and its function of inventing desire and lust are reclaimed
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Color and Class in Queer Literature When studying queer literature‚ homophobia and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community isn’t the only type of oppression there is. Rather‚ most of the time the authors of these works will have gone through discrimination for their race‚ class‚ gender‚ or sexual orientation. Racism is known as prejudice or discrimination against someone of a different race because of the belief some inhabit that their own race is superior to another. Likewise‚ Classism is the
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Desolation Row‚ to Cannon Mills‚ which has named a flowery sheet pattern after her‚ is in inverse relation to her invisibility in Shakespearean critical texts. Why has she been such a potent and obsessive figure in our cultural mythology? Insofar as Hamlet names Ophelia as “woman” and “frailty‚” substituting an ideological view of femininity for a personal one‚ is she indeed representative of Woman‚ and does her madness stand for the oppression of women in society as well as in tragedy? Furthermore
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Queer Culture of Southeast Asia. When discussing queer culture in modern times‚ it is automatically classified as a western idea. Queer identities and queer struggles are associated with whiteness‚ as a white concept. This is one of the many causes of colonization‚ and how in some way it erased the history of oppressed communities. However‚ pre-colonization history indicates that queer culture had been developed within ancient civilizations. If we look at ancient civilizations in Latin America
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Issues of discrimination to transgender also occur outside of detention centers. Kit Yan shared the social injustices he experienced as a queer‚ transgender‚ and Asian American in his performance Queer Heartache. He became aware of the unacceptance of transgenders in the US when he expressed his newfound queer identity through rainbow stickers on his new Jeep Cherokee. As a result‚ his lights were smashes and tires were broken. Like transgender detainees‚ Yan was out casted and assigned to a secluded
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Queer sexuality is a stigmatized identity in terms of society because of social norms‚ rhetoric‚ and most importantly policy. The word “queer” means “strange‚ or odd” which perfectly describes just how polluted American society is in the Modern Era. Many different points attribute to stigmatized queer sexuality which include the process of identity management‚ heteronormativity and mononormativity‚ and policies restricting freedoms . Queer sexuality that is being stigmatized is a serious issue that
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The “Normal” and the Queer: Issues With Media Representation The importance of popular media representation is often underestimated to the average eye. Television‚ movies‚ books‚ and video games are just a few of the many examples of media to are available to an increasingly growing audience. Although forms of media are not reality‚ they are representations‚ a looking glass for society at large to identify with and see themselves in. How many times have we watched a big-time action flick and
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