MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Flims, Heteronormativity, Pansexuality
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An intentional term- literally strange , odd , outside the norm. Connects to feminism"s desire to shake up our comfortable categories, and encourage us to look at who we, and others, are in new creative ways. We have binary systems are problematic for those who don"t fit into these specific categories of male/female. Interrogate boundaries of sex, gender and sexuality. Reality is a lot messier"than we like to believe heterosexual - bisexual - homosexual. To talk about queer is to talk about the full spectrum. Heteronormativity refers to a diverse set of social practices that function to prepetuate the heterosexual/homosexual binary and to privilege heterosexuality. We tend to assume heterosexuality until proven otherwise. Ex. asking a random guy if he has a girlfriend. Anay conception that we have about sexuality and toward a norm should be questioned. Stigmatizing or obscuring non-heterosexuality in order to privilege heterosexuality. General conceptions of the family" privilege heterosexual definitions and expressions of familial relations.
