{"id":126,"date":"2018-02-12T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=126"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:43:09","slug":"yd-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/yd-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"YD Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embodiment in post-racial terms in the context of the aforementioned quote indicates that fetishizing blackness in post-racial terms, or in other words, fetishizing blackness while erasing black identity, reinforces the racial power inequalities that be. Furthermore, this erasure has caused a \u201cwhite queer politics of injury\u201d that presents white queerness as the state of being \u2018other\u2019 without taking into account the major privileges involved in racial identity in order for white queers to take the stance of a victimized \u2018other.\u2019 By ignoring race in talking about queer identities, a major privilege is thus ignored and it is therefore counterproductive to view queerness in terms of the neoliberal concept of being \u2018colorblind.\u2019 As society stands, race is intimately intertwined with <em>all<\/em> a person\u2019s identities whether such intimate involvement is acknowledged or not. By <em>not <\/em>acknowledging race and by ignoring it in queer theory, white supremacy is further enabled with the framing of being progressive, rather than addressing the inequalities and power structures that progressive politics are intended to address and dismantle. Amber Musser made clear the importance of addressing race in the context of all of a person\u2019s identities in \u201cRe-membering Audre,\u201d \u201cWhile Lorde was unapologetic about claiming a multiplicity of identities\u2014mother, poet, warrior, lesbian, black\u2014these identities made her aware of multiple forms of marginalization and enabled her to imagine a feminism robust enough to tackle difference and create authentic community.\u201d However, in labeling Lorde as queer, rather than as a black, mother, poet, warrior, lesbian, her racial, maternal, personal identities are erased for the sake of being \u2018colorblind,\u2019 but the reality of this erasure only supports the \u201chegemonic understandings of race,\u201d as Reed put it. Clearly, although queer theory is useful for addressing issues of queerness, its current state of whiteness means it still needs to take into account other identities in order to develop a fuller, more inclusive, more progressive understanding of identity politics and how queerness is seen in the contemporary societal context.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Reed, &#8220;The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You&#8217;re Dead. Spectacular Absence and Post-Racialized Blackness in (White) Queer Theory&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amber Jamilla Musser, &#8220;Re-membering Audre. Adding Lesbian Feminist Mother Poet to Black&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embodiment in post-racial terms in the context of the aforementioned quote indicates that fetishizing blackness in post-racial terms, or in other words, fetishizing blackness while erasing black identity, reinforces the racial power inequalities that be. Furthermore, this erasure has caused a \u201cwhite queer politics of injury\u201d that presents white queerness as the state of being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/yd-week-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YD Week 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}