Salina Chin

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

@tau_is_better In my life, I feel supported by a network of both biological & non-biological "family." Still working through whether the people I rely on for support are all "family," or whether keeping the distinction between the people I share genes with and the people I don't is useful (5/5)

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

@tau_is_better I feel like in the American context we tend to overemphasize family & view it as the most important structure in our lives (whether this means biological family or the alternatives Stacey & Davenport highlight) (4/?)

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

oppress those who are not cis, white, able-bodied, straight? In my own research of queer geographies, I've noticed that queer time and space change even over the period of a day--challenging the fixity/stability of time and space that chrononormativity suggests #spacetimeGSWSBC

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

Freeman's idea of chrononormativity and Luciano's chronobiopolitics makes me think back to our discussion of the "good life." How are our life narratives structured around reproduction, and how have our desires for a long life reinforced temporalities that #spacetimeGSWSBC (1/?)

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

i was so impressed by the sara ahmed readings this week!! i especially appreciated her focus on feeling, sensation, and affect—academia tends to underemphasize the utility of emotion and feeling to understand, bodily, the consequences of power #feminismGSWSBC

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

reinforce normative expressions of whiteness. at the same time, this effort is paradoxical and nonsensical: "while sexual reticence has been discursively viewed as an achievement of whiteness...white asexuality is nonetheless framed as a wasted whiteness" 2/2 #asexualgswsbc

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

przybylo's analysis of how asexuality, linked to desexualization and hypersexualization, is weaponized to oppress members of marginalized identity categories highlighted the lengths a "white, able-bodied, heteropatriarchal nation-state" (16) will go to in order to (1/?)

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

it might seem silly now, but the censorship of trans and gay lit was meant to suppress the dissemination of info about variant gender and sexual identities/behaviors--and the consequences of this censorship were nothing short of grave (3/3)

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

Stryker's discussion of changing legal definitions of obscenity as it relates to trans and gay lit was so fascinating. I would never associate transness and gayness with "vulgarity" or "obscenity"...from my perspective, it seems so absurd and ridiculous (1/3) #transGSWSBC

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

Through her sidebar on Literature and Obscenity (pg. 71-72), Stryker highlights how censorship is one of many tools govts can use to regulate, control, and discriminate against trans bodies, or bodies that don't meet normative expectations of "usefulness" more broadly (2/3)

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

as well as the oppressive systems which bind and structure in the first place!

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

Johnson’s urge to combine academic and political praxis was a much-needed reminder that we can use what we have learned at bowdoin and similar institutions (as well as our unique talents and skills) to challenge & liberate our “homeplace” #queergswsbc

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

@humbleudon you forgot the hashtag!

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

how we commonly understand sex—i’m thinking about widely disseminated instagram infographics on consent, pleasure, and desire and oftentimes how power is left out of the conversation 2/2 #sexGSWSBC

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

i found musser’s distinction between the public and private and who has access to the private space of sexual citizenship (and, conversely, who is relegated to the public space of sex and open to sexual coercion) important to rmb, esp bc the framework of consent structures 1/2

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

@tau_is_better as a fellow soc major, i found vaid-menon’s discussion refreshing in its refusal to take up dominant academic understandings of gender and power. it made me wonder whether these understandings are necessary for everyday people to make sense of their lives #binaryGSWSBC

[Salina Chin @salinaintrogsws]

@humbleudon moraga’s piece also made me reflect on how we find liberation, and i agreed with her argument that we have to seek freedom through empathy: “the real power, as you and i well know, is collective” (moraga 1979). #intersectionalitygswsbc