Deeply engaging with social issues‚ The Fosters’ ideological development departs from the quotidian inclusion in The Kids Are All Right. Visibility of lesbian characters in The Kids Are All Right is both apolitical and constrains queer visibility. Whereas The Fosters‚ albeit homonormative inclusion‚ effectively criticizes the ideological system that embeds the character narratives. Specifically‚ The Fosters’ meaningfully represents a family that is diverse and challenges the tropes of kinship. To
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While critical paradigms expose hegemony‚ underpinning the research and reinforcing the critical paradigm will be the similar theoretical perspective of queer theory. The foundations of queer theory are political‚ encompassing the concepts of identity‚ power and language (Wilchins‚ 2014‚ p. 9). It has been defined as ‘oppositional’ (Hodges‚ 2008‚ p. 8) and a theory that fundamentally challenges societal assumptions (Langdridge
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female playwright and a queer of color person. (Muñoz‚ 1999‚ p. 3). The author also talks of identity as something that does not exist easily – at least not for the sexual minority‚ but‚ on the contrary‚ is easily accessible for heterosexual individuals since even identity is largely rooted in stereotype. In fact‚ a large aspect of the discussion revolves around identity and its formation of the personality or the sense of Self. Muñoz mentions that most of pillars of queer theory come from experiences
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everybody. So Ms. Butler‚ May I call you Judith? I’m so honored to have you on my show. Butler: Of course you can‚ and the pleasure is mine really. Me: So Judith why don’t you tell our audience a little about your career as a queer theorist? Butler: I’d be happy to. My work in queer theory mostly focuses on feminism and gender institutions. My most notable books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex‚ in which I tried to
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American pragmatist theory (Parker‚2001; Seidman‚1997)‚ queer theory has become one of the most important theories‚ which contributes to the research of sociology‚ arts and organizations. On the one hand‚ queer theory has been used to study the relations between the sexuality‚ gender and workplace. On the other hand‚ by utilizing denaturalized‚ deconstructive and performative methods to queer the presumptions of the taken-for-granted norms‚ queer theorists question and disprove the traditions which
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Queer Culture of Southeast Asia. When discussing queer culture in modern times‚ it is automatically classified as a western idea. Queer identities and queer struggles are associated with whiteness‚ as a white concept. This is one of the many causes of colonization‚ and how in some way it erased the history of oppressed communities. However‚ pre-colonization history indicates that queer culture had been developed within ancient civilizations. If we look at ancient civilizations in Latin America
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Queer Theory is a study that became widely known in the early 1990s‚ but its studies date back to as early as the 1960s. Queer Theory says we should not be defined by our gender‚ sexual orientation‚ sexual acts and personal identities‚ and that we should challenge the societal construct that forces us to. Although there are many scientists‚ sociologists‚ doctors and psychologists who have contributed to the study and works of Queer theory‚ the four that this essay focuses on are Jacques Derrida
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Issues of discrimination to transgender also occur outside of detention centers. Kit Yan shared the social injustices he experienced as a queer‚ transgender‚ and Asian American in his performance Queer Heartache. He became aware of the unacceptance of transgenders in the US when he expressed his newfound queer identity through rainbow stickers on his new Jeep Cherokee. As a result‚ his lights were smashes and tires were broken. Like transgender detainees‚ Yan was out casted and assigned to a secluded
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The “Normal” and the Queer: Issues With Media Representation The importance of popular media representation is often underestimated to the average eye. Television‚ movies‚ books‚ and video games are just a few of the many examples of media to are available to an increasingly growing audience. Although forms of media are not reality‚ they are representations‚ a looking glass for society at large to identify with and see themselves in. How many times have we watched a big-time action flick and
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Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward
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