Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures

In the book “Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory”, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new aspects of Foucault thoughts. She then rethinks and rewrites the theorists ethical work after these discoveries. In this book Huffer writes that Foucault recasts the Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviant, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality (Huffer, 2009). Sampling from unpublished interviews and other materials that has been archived, Huffer uses her experience together with Foucault, to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason (Huffer, 2009). One of the most talked about scholarly works is Judith Butler´s…

The impact that historical figures have had on the social, economic, and political aspects of society have influenced and shaped the foundation for day to day life and the culture that can be seen today. Harvey Milk was born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York. Reared in a small middle class Jewish family, Milk was one of two boys born to William and Minerva Milk. Milk grew up in a time where ideas of equality and open tolerance for lesbians and gays were seen as radical, shocking, and not…

for white homosexual men, so sex farms were established (“National Humanities Center”, 2016). In result of buck breaking, the idea of homosexual acts in Jamaica 's black community became demeaning to oneself. In addition to homophobia being frown upon in the black community in Jamaica, laws were set to make homosexual acts illegal, as well. While Jamaica was under the British rule, the Act of 1864 was enforced. The 1864 Offences Against the Person Act called for imprisonment up to10 years…

The first case was in 1981. For three years, the gay community was targeted for their actions. Their community was threatened to be torn apart based of an assumption of AIDS being sexually transmitted. For these gay men, the most important thing was to be accepted. They didn’t care if they died from a disease if it meant they died being themselves. Until there was actual proof of this disease being sexually transmitted, all the gay men wanted was to continue to live in their accepted community.…

Exhibition” in 1998. With the shift from obsession with indigenization to excavation of individual life after the lifting of martial law in 1987, possibilities of focusing on minority groups and exploring urgent social issues have been opened up in the local documentary filmmaking. It is no wonder, then, that the creation of the alternative homosexual space was made visible by virtue of the lifting of martial law, or that “the construction of alternative sexual identities in this case was…

They were wearing afros, had dramatically over-drawn lips, and were yelling phrases from African American Vernacular English, often incorrectly, such as “yasss hunty” and “throwing shade”. While they did this, they were getting plenty of praise from the mostly white crowd, which made me and my partner uncomfortable. I felt like I was watching a caricature of my culture. This reminded me of the “The Drag Queen and the Mummy” reading, where Dorian Corey stated “When I grew up, of course, you know,…

kept the home fires burning. A lifelong activist, Pat formed the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) along with three other women in 1975. Based on a strong feminist foundation, WEL aspired to empower women in crisis to take charge of their lives. The group soon identified the need for a women’s shelter to provide a safe haven for desperate women fleeing domestic violence. The Bjelke-Petersen regime opposed women 's shelters, believing they led to the break-up of marriages and so Queensland boasted…

many research studies on the topic of LGBT characters in media, but I decided to make my study unique by studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I chose to interview…

we as christians have to accept the current situation and realize they 're just lost souls that ned Jesus. My solution is very simple but would literally change the world if even only half of every Christians followed this plan. The solution being “swallow your pride and start acting Christ like”. “I’m not prideful?” or “I’m the most humble person alive”. Those may be thoughts running through your head but hear me out. According to Bob Davies says in his article Ex-Gay Sheds the Mocking Quote…

Restated from the Text Stated in Your Own Words “The ability to transcend personal interests to provide care and concern for younger and older generations; it encompasses ‘procreation, productivity and creativity and thus the generations of new beings, as well as of new products and new ideas, including a kind of self-generation concerned with further identity development’ (Hutchison, 2015).” Generativity refers to the stage in middle adulthood where individuals focus on making a significant…