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affinity groups

ACT UP video: Jim Hubbard -affinity groups are smaller, close-knit groups that exist within larger organizations -in the Act Up documentary, individuals with shared identities formed affinity groups within the coalition to take more focused action to end the Aids crisis -these groups formed ACT UP's molecular structure and assisted the campaign by dividing the seemingly unorganized organization into groups with specific tasks -ACT UP's affinity groups included W.A.R, or War Against Aids and Racism, and a group entirely devoted to civil disobedience and safety training for protests

abolition

Bassichis, Lee and Spade: "Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement" -to abolish the very institutions that oppress all marginalized groups rather than try and fit into and reform them in order to achieve equality -an abolitionist politic does not believe the prison system is "broken" and in need of reform. it moves us away from attempting to "fix" the PIC and helps us imagine an entirely different world--one that is not built upon the historical and contemporary legacies of the racial and gendered brutality that maintain the power of the PIC -abolition is a political commitment that makes the PIC impossible -abolition is not just about closing the doors to violent institutions, but also about building up and recovering institutions and practices and relationships that nurture wholeness, self-determination, and transformation -a queer and trans politics that does not function on undermining someone else's right to exist in order to reinforce queer rights to exist... it is a movement that sustains all life on this planet, without exception

assimilation

Cathy J. Cohen, "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens" -assimilation is when a minority group or culture assumes characteristics of and resembles a dominant group -it involves replicating dominant institutions (i.e. creating new institutions with power dynamics similar to the dominant institution). -Cathy Cohen critiques LGBT politics in her piece, highlighting that their goal is assimilation into and replication of dominant institutions, and calls for new, radical queer politics

heteronormativity

Cohen: Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens -localized practices and centralized institutions which legitimize and privilege heterosexuality and heterosexual relationships as fundamental and "natural" within society -heteronormativity sets expectations that work to support and reinforce institutional racism, patriarchy, and class exploitation -queer politics should pursue a political agenda that seeks to change heteronormative values (like marriage), definitions, and laws which make these institutions and relationships oppressive

trickle down social change

Duggan, Twilight of Equality -the neoliberal idea of trickle down social change is a kind of stripped down equality that only benefits the few, and not the most disenfranchised -compromise between neoliberal politicians and more radical social justice groups -multiculturalism, a marker of neoliberalism, is a type of trickle down social change that presents a facade of social change (i.e. Twitter diversity officer), while not much (if any) real change has taken place -for example, having more representation of trans people on TV is good, but it's really a facade that is not helping the most disenfranchised people -- the number of murders of trans and GNC people of color is increasing

nonprofit industrial complex

Dylan Rodríguez: The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex -the non-profit industrial complex is the corporatization of non-profit organizations by the government in order to lessen the radical potential that threatens dominant institutions -it also controls the financial flow and distribution of funds as to choose what causes it supports and are worthy

direct action

Gay Shame: Sycamore -direct action involves public protests, strikes, and demonstrations that aim to get people/an institution/government to see the need for change and act on it -Gay Shame is a radical, queer, direct action group. For example, one of Gay Shame's actions, the Gay Shame Awards, was a public demonstration that exposed hypocritical gays within the community, calling attention to the need to end oppression from within the gay community

neoliberalism

Lisa Duggan: The Twilight of Inequality -Purports to isolate the "natural" processes of capitalism from sticky issues of class, race, and identity when really the policies of capitalism are inherently racist and classist structures that become central to each stage of neoliberalism -limits restrictions on the free market -It aims to privatize businesses, deregulate the market, and remove welfare programs -trickle-upward economic goals... the redistribution of resources going upwards in terms of pro-business activism instead of a "more equitable redistribution of the world's resources" -Homonormative forms of violence are spawned by neoliberal economic, political, and cultural policies and practices

homonormativity

Manalansan: Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics -the assimilation of heteronormative ideals and constructs into LGBTQ culture and identity -homonormativity anesthetizes queer communities into passively accepting alternative forms of inequality in return for domestic privacy and the freedom to consume - a "chameleon-like ideology" is a privileging set of hierarchies, social norms and expectations that cause the oppressed to oppress one another -the "good gays" are the ones who buy into capitalism, fit into the niche marketing of society, "wear prada" -fighting for gay marriage, a heteronormative ideal

utopia

Munoz: Queerness as a Horizon -Queer utopia can be a desire for a different time and place, or a way of approaching an issue -Utopia is everything aside from what has already been done and existed within the heteronormative structure, it moves apart from what is known and instead towards what can be -Munoz presents utopia conversely with gay pragmatism and homonormativity, both being part of the structures that don't allow for queer potentiality to be fully imagined -"queerness is utopian" we aren't quite there yet

"new queer politic"

Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: Cathy Cohen -Cohen believes that the potential of queer politics lies within organizing a discourse around a shared relation to structures of power and dominance as opposed to organization around a shared identity -This structure centers the ways in which groups are marginalized, which then connects different identities in order to take action collectively and create a new shared consciousness

"quality of life" crimes

Screaming Queens documentary by Susan Stryker Sylvia and Sylvia's Children (Shepard) -quality of life crimes came out of large cities such as New York (Mayor Guiliani) and San Francisco in the '90s -describe the heavy policing of non-criminal activities and minor offenses -affected several queer businesses, bars, and night clubs -"The crackdown is part of a campaign designed to privatize, sanitize, and control public spaces such as the piers throughout NYC" -congregating in public spaces, public urination, graffiti, littering, unlicensed street vending -heavily policing these minor offenses disproportionately affect and target sex workers, the houseless, people with drug addiction, people with mental illness, as well as people in poverty, queer, trans folks, and people of color

internationalism

Third World Gay Revolution, "WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE" -modern-day transnationalism -an analysis rooted in place that also thinks about our place globally -Third World Gay Revolution discusses internationalism when they write, "as we begin to understand our place in this international revolution... we must develop the skills necessary to destroy the forces of repression and exploitation."

intersectionality

Third World Gay Revolution, "WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE" -the idea that one's identities (race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class...) cannot be looked at in isolation, but instead must be seen as intertwining -the intersections of different identifiers influence one's access to power. -"WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE" reads, "We each organize our people about different issues, but our struggles are the same against oppression, and we will defeat it together." -though people identify in different ways and face different struggles, intersectionality calls for understanding these intertwining differences and the need to fight oppression by working together

bioterrorism

Velasquez-Potts: Regulatory Sites: Management, Confinement and HIV/AIDS -sed to villainize and criminalize anyone living with HIV/AIDS as a threat to the general public by their existence already burdened by their medical condition -this makes them more susceptible to segregation within institutions like prison or underserving of basic human rights -reminder of the ways that HIV/AIDS continues to be attached to trans/queer bodies and imagined as a threat to Western society

culture wars

Woubshet: "Visions of Loss: Hip Hop, Apocalypse, and AIDS" -culture wars are a tool used by neoliberal politics in order to use religious and racial ideology as a weapon against the lifestyle and beliefs of gay culture by restructuring the economy -"Visions of Loss" highlights the Culture Wars as a reason why Haring received public funding for his work, while Black and Brown graffiti artists' art was often criminalized. Haring's whiteness (privilege) complicates his relationship to graffiti and hip hop.

prison industrial complex

Yasmin Nair: How to Make Prisons Disappear -prison industrial complex has been offered to begin to name the enormity of the prison system -understanding the PIC as a set of relations makes visible the connections among capitalism, globalization, and corporations -the PIC also helps us to think about the practices of surveillance, policing, screening, profiling, and other technologies to partition people and produce "populations" that often occur far beyond the walls of prison -a racist, classist, and transphobic/homophobic industry that disproportionately targets and punishes those with the fewest resources -individuals are simply locked up, not actively educated about or engaged in repairing the harm they have created and are further divided from their families and support networks, perpetuating more damage, isolation, and devastation within their communities

"deserving immigrant"

Yasmin Nair: How to Make Prisons Disappear -the idea that only certain, ideal immigrants belong and are welcomed into the United States. -fit into typical American ideals of things such as the nuclear family, laws of the state, patriotism, and heteronormativity -if an immigrant has broken the law, doesn't perform well academically, or comes from a low-income community, they aren't as "deserving" as these alleged good, law-abiding immigrants to be in this country, and are therefore more expendable and deportable

gay pragmatism

munoz: queerness as horizon -a way of viewing queer politics within a heteronormative timeframe in order to reform institutions rather than abolishing them (such as gay marriage versus healthcare for everyone; thinks healthcare through marriage is more convenient and rational than fighting the system). -a half-way short-term solution to a much bigger issue that assimilates to the favor of heteronormative politics and change.

straight time

munoz: queerness as horizon -straight time is a heteronormative ordering of life, both spacially and temporally, that prohibits utopianism and is the opposite of ecstasy -overarching system of capitalism compels it to be moralized -biological imperative of "The child": normative family structure, self-alienating labor to support such family -straight time follows a typical path: birth → school → job → marriage → children → school ... -queer time would conversely refuse the logic of progress and productivity, rejection or resistance to normative social values, the idea of failure coinciding with nonconformity, anticapitalist practices, nonreproductive lifestyles... goes against capatalist economy