Ryan Delaney

Intro to GSWS Spring Semester 2022

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Family align with these ideals? Does marriage even fit into a gay lifestyle or is marriage also a straight forced norm?

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#familiesGSWSBC
I found it so interesting that this piece, that is from 2002, highlighted the increase in access to families that aren’t a heteronormative family while pieces we’ve read from more recent have said the opposite. Not only did this author claim that queers and (1)

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As other past pieces we have read. Would forming a queer family continue to normalize the idea that everyone’s life goal is the ‘white picket fence life’? Especially when considering that the general queer or gay public has different values, does building a normative (3)

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Certain spaces (such as small towns) due to its potential for hostility, which limits where they can exist and take up space.

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#spacetimeGSWSBC
I thought it was so interesting that time and space can be gendered and sexualized. I had never thought of this previously, but it makes so much sense. The creation of a family is so clearly a sexualized and gendered concept that has a set timeline that often(1

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Isolates queer people and families from taking up familial space. I liked Delany’s theory that queers use time and space in ways that challenge the heteronormative convention in adulthood, development, and maturity. This is especially interesting considering queers often avoid(2)

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#feminismGSWSBC
These feelings nor truly comprehend why feminism is an essential

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#feminismGSWSBC
Feminism unfortunately comes from the belief of gender roles and the expectation that ‘boys will be boys’, so girls have to behave in a specific, reactive sort of way to accommodate to boy’s behavior. Women can be judged for their lack of caution (1)

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#feminismGSWSBC
That women experience once they understand the oddities of being a women in our culture. I also wanted to point out that while women, as the author argues, become feminists because of things they experience, such as assault, men can never truly understand (3)

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Feel a disconnect from the general society. Both communities have been described as white spaces and both seem to overlook the intersectionality that comes with being a queer or asexual POC.

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#asexualGSWSBC
I thought it was interesting that the Asexual Erotics reading brought up how asexual communities (often online) are mainly dominated by white asexuals. This has been a common topic among a few of the different readings and topics we have discussed, but mainly (1)

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Within the queer community. Many critiques of the queer community surround its feeling of exclusivity for mostly white queers. This reading brought up similar concepts, explaining how ace communities are ‘not immune to racism’, despite the push for inclusivity for asexuals who(2)

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#transGSWSBC partook in. The book talks about trans representation during colonial times where quite a few women followed in Joan’s footsteps and enlisted in the army as men.

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#transGSWSBC Very quickly into this week’s reading from “Transgender History” was I able to connect it to another class. First semester I took Joan of Arc as my FYWS where I learned about Joan’s transformation into a saint after being shamed for her story for years.

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#transGSWSBC Though heavily debated, Joan is a very early representation of a trans man. True, she never truly claimed to be a man, but she persecuted for dressing in male clothes and cutting her hair short. She also fought in the 100’s year war-a role that only men at the time

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Additionally, while Queer Theory has attempted to solve these issues, as Meg-John Barker explains, E. Patrick Johnson believes it still is a problematic solution that doesn’t include queer POC. #queerGSWSBC

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I think it is important to acknowledge where the term queer came from and its original definition. Because this term began as an insult it has brought extra challenges to the queer community in finding peace with the term from those outside of the community. #queerGSWSBC

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Besides this, the term has created a tension in the queer community because although it was meant to be an overarching or umbrella term for members of the LGBTQ+ community, it has created a division between different identities within the queer category. #queerGSWSBC