{"id":201,"date":"2018-02-01T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=201"},"modified":"2018-02-01T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T04:01:46","slug":"instagram-post-1-harris-queer-externalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-1-harris-queer-externalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Post 1: Harris, Queer Externalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_0248.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/lgbtqexperiencesusa\/\">#lgbtqexperiencesusa<\/a>class, I am making a few posts about materials relevant to queer history and theory.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s book <em>Queer Externalities<\/em> examines how queer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/representation\/\">#representation<\/a>\u00a0in mainstream media (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will &amp; Grace, Brokeback Mountain, etc.) may actually have harmful side effects on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/queer\/\">#queer<\/a>\u00a0community. Mistaking acknowledgement by corporations for actual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/equality\/\">#equality<\/a>, he says, only reinforces\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/homonormativity\/\">#homonormativity<\/a>\u00a0and political apathy due to a belief that we are better off than we really are. I found it surprising to see a criticism of queer representation, considering how little there already is, but I can\u2019t disagree with the effects he discusses, provided his criticism is of how representation is done and how people respond to it, not of the fact of representation itself.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, W.C. <em>Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture<\/em>. SUNY Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>SB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my\u00a0#lgbtqexperiencesusaclass, I am making a few posts about materials relevant to queer history and theory. Harris\u2019s book Queer Externalities examines how queer\u00a0#representation\u00a0in mainstream media (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will &amp; Grace, Brokeback Mountain, etc.) may actually have harmful side effects on the\u00a0#queer\u00a0community. Mistaking acknowledgement by corporations for actual\u00a0#equality, he says, only reinforces\u00a0#homonormativity\u00a0and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-1-harris-queer-externalities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram Post 1: Harris, Queer Externalities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}