How Intersectionality is Reflected in the Media The media has just recently (in the past years) started picking up on queer and transgender representation. There are shows like Modern Family, Glee, and How to get Away with Murder that have gay couples as reoccurring cast; in these shows there are topics about common struggles in the LGBT+ community discussed. Although this is progression, there is not enough intersectionality portrayed within the media. Intersectionality is a huge determining factor within people’s everyday lives so why is not represented in the media more often? The articles I chose to support this topic are: Punks, Bull daggers, and Welfare Queens by Cathy Cohen, Generic Definition: Taxonomies of Identity by Meredith Rainmondo and Cherokee Two Spirit People
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The article questions: “Who uses it to describe behavior? and who associated it with African Americans?” (140). African American men that identify as gay but choose to keep it on the “down low” are labeled, and given a negative connotation. However, that is not the case with white males. One is considered “in the closet”, and there are negative consequences, but it is not as bad as the Black community. Rainmondo states “this distancing did not always come with the same rubrics; the constellation of gender, race, class, sexuality poisoned writers differently in relationship to men on the down low (149). She states that there was not always a stigma about it, but when race is the only thing that comes in to play, it became a problem. She claims that still today “in all they remained a troubling phenomenon to contemplate rather than a site of identification (149). After all is said and done, the term “being on the down low” is usually referenced when talking in the black community and the phenomenon will
The article questions: “Who uses it to describe behavior? and who associated it with African Americans?” (140). African American men that identify as gay but choose to keep it on the “down low” are labeled, and given a negative connotation. However, that is not the case with white males. One is considered “in the closet”, and there are negative consequences, but it is not as bad as the Black community. Rainmondo states “this distancing did not always come with the same rubrics; the constellation of gender, race, class, sexuality poisoned writers differently in relationship to men on the down low (149). She states that there was not always a stigma about it, but when race is the only thing that comes in to play, it became a problem. She claims that still today “in all they remained a troubling phenomenon to contemplate rather than a site of identification (149). After all is said and done, the term “being on the down low” is usually referenced when talking in the black community and the phenomenon will