Heteronormativity

Ryan Coogler was also concerned with creating a multidimensional character when he crafted Fruitvale Station. The film tells the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a young unarmed black man who was murdered by police on New Years in 2009 at a BART station in Oakland, California. The event struck Coogler hard. He was still in college when it happened, and the shooting took place in the community he grew up in. Much like the rest of the directors, Coogler’s personal relations to the material is…

Ang Lee challenges the racial stereotyping and heteronormativity present in Hollywood through his film The Wedding Banquet. The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 film about an interracial, homosexual American couple, Wai Tung and Simon. Due to the patriarchal nature of Taiwanese culture, Wai Tung cannot reveal his sexual orientation or his relationship with Simon to his parents and is therefore incessantly pestered by his parents in Taiwan to get married and have children to carry on the family name. In…

Evidence shows there is an incline of violence directed towards those who do not display heteronormativity. Racism and homophobia work together hand in hand through institutional prejudice. On the bright side, LGBTQ and Two-Spirit officials are making headway up the political ladder (p.3). Hunt & Homes articulated how LGBTQ & two-spirit people are…

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, a melding of revolutionary ambitions and homophobic misrepresentations give rise to the empowerment of Queer Authors to challenge and shift the heteronormative systems of society (“Queer Histories”). Leo Bersani and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick are two queer Authors who have impacted the public and academic structures of knowledge during this crisis. Examining Bersani’s “Is the Rectum a Grave?” and Sedgwick’s “Epistemology of the Closet,” both are positioned towards…

Relationships feel constant pushes and pulls of dialectical tensions—these tensions are ever present because they are inherent to the creation of long-lasting, and functional, relationships. Since these are ever present and ever important, knowing what they are and the strategies for handling these dialectical tensions are extremely important. There is a nuance to finding the balance between the poles, and between the people, involved in these relationships. These are not necessarily romantic…

Introduction The thought of masculinity often manifests various stereotypes; the image of the glorified white male is often formed. Hegemonic masculinity is often seen as the most dominant, defining form of masculinity. Characteristics of hegemonic masculinity are often presumed to be male, white characters that embody the naturalness of masculinity. A presumption is that masculinity and maleness are linked. Similarly but not to the same extent, femininity and the existence as a female are…

that encourages and enforces heteronormative demeanors, we are influenced to accept the notions that our sexual interactions are confined to not only the polarity of male and female genders but additionally to the underlying prescriptions of heteronormativity. Due to the queerphobic overtones within society it becomes essential for queer individuals to assume the standard gender roles within a civilization that produces fear and angst through its punishments of both macro and micro aggressions.…

“destigmatize” their involvement in what are considered feminine sports by engaging in what are defined by Worthen and Dirks as “stigma management techniques” to effectively communicate their masculinity and gender in moments that stray from heteronormativity. When males willfully participate in a sport that does not have the same socially negotiated connotations as “male” sports,…

Disabled bodies are represented in various different ways, most of which are not in line with the traditional views of masculinity. Opsteyn (2015) argues that a lot of literature infantilizes disabled men, referring specifically to post-war writing to exemplify this. The reliance on others to perform tasks that are positioned as normal by able-bodied discourse is viewed as not only emasculating, but infantilizing. This image of the disabled male as childlike is one that remains dominant and is…

features Finn the Human Boy and his magical dog Jake, adventuring in the fantasy land of Ooo. Behind its bizarre plot and fantastical characters, hides an unexpected emotional intricacy, ‘Adventure Time’ seeks to teach good values, challenge heteronormativity and instill positive morals and life views. ‘Adventure Time’ positively promotes the breaking of gender roles and comments in its own way on societies…