SOC359H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Queer Theory, Political Correctness, Heteronormativity
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Lecture 8: resisting gender: queerness, gender performativity, language and gender (pronouns, gender neutral pronouns. It stands outside of the lgbtq category: can be for black lesbians who don"t have to choose between racial, sexual or gender categories, queerness in its more ideal forms can make space for multiple intersecting identities. In the 90"s the idea of queer emerged: emerged during the time of a number of movements such as the civil rights movements. The stonewall riot: police raids at bath houses, parks, to stop the supposed perverseness. 2: if you act like the dominant group then the dominant group can recognize your shared humanity, the concerns of trans people were not recognized by male activists. Video showing the whitehouse press secretary (liberal) and the conservative journalist: the journalist was still asking very serious questions even though he himself was against the gay movement.
