SOCIOL 135 Lecture 15: Oct. 1, 2014 - Paris is Burning
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Most important: differences in the understanding of the relationship of gender and sexuality. Anita (24; puerto rican: has been taking hormones since she was a teenager, lives as a woman, calls herself a drag queen, connotes performance, act etc, permanency vs. temporality, resistant to identity woman , so: gay, drag queen, man. Identifies as: gay, butch, but also woman; sometimes gay man; mother. Even using locally derived terms for people does not capture the range of (sometimes contested_ meanings that animate people"s understandings of themselves in particular contexts. More importantly, though, the complexity of these identifications does leads to some social service providers seeing them as having false consciousness" (124: gender identity as a discourse. Identity politics, in its very nature, renders some as invisible: hiding the mechanisms of inequality and how those operate when we rely upon identity politics.
