Blogging “Yes” Day 6: Queering Black Heterosexuality and.
Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.. to how heterosexuality is reproduced at the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual.
If black women can be defined as a group by first noticing the trends that particular people encounter, such as often being suspected of shoplifting, and then correlating these patterns with their constructed identity (the combination of categories “black” and “woman”) (Collins 25-26), then perhaps groups with structural privilege can be understood similarly.
AbstractThis essay analyzes the controversy surrounding artist Kara Walker’s 2014 installation, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, to unpack the pleasures and dangers that subtend discussions of black female sexuality. What Walker announced as a tribute to the labor of brown and black bodies produced myriad conversations about pleasure, danger, and black female sexuality.
Dismantling Hierarchy Queering Society by Andrea Smith 2010 The author favors from WOM ST 10 at Santa Monica College.
In her 1980 article “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich examines the socialization process that has worked to channel women, at home and in the workplace, toward heterosexuality.
More generally, the essay is intended to contribute to a data-driven discussion that links claims about the relations between language, gender and sexuality back to concrete textual evidence. Employing a discourse-historical approach, the analysis focuses on the parameters of social actor representation, intertextuality and interdiscursivity.
Monakali Queering Gender Identity Work: A Life History of a Black Transgender Woman Government Gazette, South Africa. 2004. “Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act 49, 2003.”.