Intersectionality
A system that controls individuals through normalizing of life-giving institutions.
What is a structure of power?
A type of knowledge co-constructed by race and sexuality.
What is racialized-sexual knowledge?
A cultural and systemic ideology that denies or berates gender identities, behavior, and expression that do not align with assigned gender at birth.
What is cisgenderism?
A country with power overtaking the people of a different place through violent erasure and disciplinary control.
What is colonization?
A film that captures the concepts of decolonial storytelling and desire-driven research.
What is Frozen II?
A mode of critique and analysis that understands structures of power as co-constructed and therefore having different material implications for people at different locations under those structures.
What is intersectionality?
Control and agency over one's connection with the erotic via self-investment and embodied knowledge.
What is erotic sovereignty?
What is Transnormativity?
Working against processes of erasure and violence against indigenous groups and their knowledges.
What is decolonization?
Queer theory's evil twin
What is Trans Studies?
What is a "welfare queen"?
A challenge to the idea that the only path toward Black equality is "racial uplift" via the "correction of bad behaviors" by Black elites.
What is anti-respectability?
An analytic that recognizes gender as a system of oppression and critically questions this system.
What is Trans as an analytic?
An analytical method that challenges norms of the archive by asking "Who is not represented?"
What are indigenous reading practices?
Chicana-feminist writer who critiques the universality of the term "lesbian"
Who is Gloria Anzaldúa?
Joining and collaborating politically with people of various positionalities toward a common sociopolitical goal.
What is coalition-building?
The idea that focusing on the closet leaves out the lived experiences of people marginalized by other systems of power.
What is claustrophilia?
A third mode of resistance that changes systems from within (neither assimilation nor full rejection)
What is disidentification?
A method that gives justice to the researched by not just focusing on historic violences, but also on exciting and celebratory practices of the oppressed.
What is desire-driven research?
The reading method you applied to the WAP music video.
What is queer of color critique?
The legal scholar who coined the term intersectionality
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
A way to explicitly include and theorize Southern Blackness in the racialization of queerness.
What is quare?
A historical moment wherein some trans individuals and issues are made visible, while other less privileged groups of trans people become less visible.
What is the Trans Tipping Point?
A third gender from indigenous queerness, which holds combined spiritual and sexual power within a community.
What is Two-Spirit people?
A wonderful community of brilliant queer students who always do their best!
Who is... YOU, SILLY!