CGS 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Performativity

• School: UCSD
• Department: Critical Gender Studies
• Course: CGS 105
• Professor: Roshanak Kheshti

Document Summary

Cgs 105 article notes performing disidentity: disidentification as a practice of. " diside(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) is a(cid:271)out (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al, (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ial, a(cid:374)d ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hi(cid:272) su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al" (cid:894)(cid:1005)6(cid:1005)(cid:895) Failed transformations: the salt mines and the transformation do not glamorize queer life, like paris is burning does. " sal(cid:448)atio(cid:374) is de(cid:272)idedl(cid:455) a(cid:374)ti(cid:395)uee(cid:396) a(cid:374)d ho(cid:373)opho(cid:271)i(cid:272)" (cid:894)(cid:1005)6(cid:1006)(cid:895) (162) sara, a trans woman disinterested in religion, homeless in nyc -> ricardo, a heterosexual, married, religious man in texas (163) changing his body back: why did ricardo switch, aids. "his choice to leave the street for the relative warmth and comfort of the materially supportive church community is an act of survival that can possibly be understood as a disidentification" (164) "ricardo worked with and on the ideology of born-again christianity, attempting to benefit from its rewards while resisting total cooptation by that discourse" (164) In the end, he was sad and failed. Identity against itself: felix gonzales-torres and the limits of.