queer theory Flashcards
Judith Butler on gender
gender is a repeated stylization of the body that congeals into a settled interpretation over time, but it is an ongoing discursive process that is always open to intervention and resignification
Judith Butler on the stakes of gender performance
performing gender is a shared, collective action, so we are conditioned by sanctions/prescriptions/regulations from others
Jose Esteban Munoz on disidentification
a form of worldmaking that uses the material of dominant culture to build alternative realities
Morgensen on settler homonationalism
Puar’s homonationalism (U.S. is exceptional for its homonormative acceptance of gay rights) is also bound up with the conquest and control of native lands
Morgensen on settler sexuality
a white national heteronormativity that regulates Indigenous sexuality and gender by supplanting them with the sexual modernity of settler subjects, which became hegemonic for all Natives who assimilated
Andrea Smith on queer native studies
the death drive shuts down the potential for collective struggle that could dismantle those systems that maintain the status quo
Rifkin on the heterosexual imaginary
the effort to civilize indians and repudiate all indigenous traditions is one crucial component of how heterosexual imaginary is institutionalized through state policies and how the nuclear family is naturalized
Rifkin on kinship
kinship/intimacy is the frame through which we become intelligible to the settler state, and indigenous kinship traditions are typically either eradicated or tokenized
Driskill on new queer studies
Munoz and Puar are understandably more popular in queer native studies but we need to disidentify with their writings bc they still erase natives as a subject of analysis for queer theory
Tatonetti on contemporary 2S representations
queer natives are fractured by responsibility to two identities, as they are forced to choose white queer life in the city or closeted straight death on the reservation
