{"id":113,"date":"2018-02-11T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=113"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:48:12","slug":"week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cembodiment in post-racial terms\u201d refers to white people claiming a \u201ccounterwhiteness\u201d that seeks to disalign itself from white supremacy and label itself as progressive, which may include practices such as having conversations about race without discussing racism (Reed, 57) . As white queers disavow the privilege they have due to their race, they create a parallel between themselves and a \u201cracialized otherness\u201d that they perceive queer people of color to display, which white queers then fetishize (57).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To me, it seems like \u201cthe hypervisibility of black bodies for a white queer politics of injury\u201d is most discernible in Green\u2019s example of the 2003 Gay Shame Conference, \u00a0at which only one queer conference speaker of color was present (57). While race was absorbed into the conference\u2019s understanding of what is shameful about being gay or lesbian, little to no conversation on race occurred. Because the white queer politics of injury have located identity in the universal nonwhiteness of queerness, those who identify as people of color, especially those who have black and brown bodies, may exist in spaces such as the Gay Shame Conference, but their role is reduced to simply being a visible sign of a questionable diversity, rather than being actively welcomed to speak about their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alison Reed &#8220;The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You\u2019re Dead. Spectacular Absence and Post-Racialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cembodiment in post-racial terms\u201d refers to white people claiming a \u201ccounterwhiteness\u201d that seeks to disalign itself from white supremacy and label itself as progressive, which may include practices such as having conversations about race without discussing racism (Reed, 57) . As white queers disavow the privilege they have due to their race, they create &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 5&#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-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}