Sara Schrag

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[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

Marriage is not an entirely changed institution, but many aspects of it have been subverted. Same sex marriages are rare, but they do occur legally, which would not have been possible at the time this article was written. #familiesGSWSBC

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I understood the argument that the legalization of gay marriage would be a form of submission to white, conservative values, and could contradict aspects of the gay liberation movement. However, I agree with Stoddard’s argument that to extend marriage to gay and lesbian…

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… couples would “necessarily transform it into something new. Today, after same sex marriage has been legalized, many facets of marriage remain white and heretronormative. However, same-sex and interracialized marriages have become normalized in the past couple of years.

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3/3 Space is never neutral and reflects the structures of power that human societies are founded upon, saturating geographic locations and relations with meaning. #spacetimeGSWSBC

[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

1/3 Not my tweet for the week, but I liked how this quote framed spaces as inherently political and sources of oppression:

“Geographic sites such as nation-states, borders, private property, reservations, neighborhoods, prisons, schools, and so on fix, contain, and …

[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

2/3 … surveillance people through racialized, gendered, and classed logics and practices. Space, as it is conveyed in geographic thought, is much more than a container—it is the material substance through which power is transmitted and through which relations are made.

[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

Thus, the physical divide between queer spaces/times and normative spaces/times preserves the binary that otherizes and marginalizes the queer community. #spacetimeGSWSBC

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“For some queer subjects, time and space are limned by the risks they are willing to take: the transgender person who risks his life by by passing in a small town, the sub cultural musicians who risk their livelihoods by immersing themselves…

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… and immorality. Furthermore, it prevents the rest of the world from having to confront queerness, under the guise of “protecting” them. However, it seems equally aimed at preventing the intermingling with the queer community that would inevitably humanize them.

[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

… mile from my home, in broad daylight. Unfortunately, I have more stories. I don’t think that I realized it before this reading, but these moments of fear and helplessness were what led me to feminism. It is what gives me a chance to regain control over my body. #feminismGSWSBC

[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

“If becoming feminist cannot be separated from an experience of violence, of being wronged, then what bring us to feminism is potentially shattering. The histories that bring us to feminism are the histories that leave us fragile” - Sarah Ahmed

[Sara Schrag @SaraGSWSBC]

I chose to share this story not in the hopes of garnering sympathy, but the show that the stories that Ahmed shares are not exaggerated. They are happening every day, whether or not they are acknowledged. The one I told above happened when I was less than a …