{"id":213,"date":"2018-03-05T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=213"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:48:57","slug":"bl-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/bl-week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"BL Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From my understanding of the readings, antisocial thesis in queer theory is a thesis that presents queerness and queer people as being deeply conflicted, contradictory and incompatible with normative sociality. \u00a0It is a thesis that coincides with Leo Bersani\u2019s definition of sex as \u201canti-communitarian, self-shattering and anti-identitarian\u201d (PMLA 823). This way of thinking about sex creates a \u201cshift from projects of redemption, reconstruction, restoration, and reclamation and toward what can only be called an antisocial, negative, and anti-relational theory of sexuality\u201d (PMLA 823). Societal imposition has formed a heteronormative narrative surrounding sex and sexual practices which is where queer theory becomes antisocial in nature as sex is centered around pleasure rather than reproduction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how do we begin to make sense of our politically incorrect erotic desires? (Rodriguez, 342) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In relation to the \u201cantisocial thesis,\u201d &#8220;politically incorrect desires,\u201d as Rodriguez terms, reinforces the negative theory of sexuality and belief that queerness is incompatible with normative sociality as there exists many sexual desires that do not fit into society\u2019s norms and that are considered \u201cunnatural.\u201d \u00a0The sexual fantasies that Rodriguez refers to almost always contains a power dynamic, whether that be a racialized one or one centering around gender and hyper-masculinity. These sexual fantasies are largely accepted in society and have become the norm to the point where they are no longer seen as being antisocial or damaging. She seeks to disrupt the narrative and calls into question the very nature, nuance, and connotation of what antisocial means in regards to both queer theory and heteronormative discourse on both sexual practices and fantasies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caserio, R. L., Edelman, L., Halberstam, J., Muniz, J. E., &amp; Dean, T. (2011). The antisocial thesis in queer theory.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Modern Language Association, 121<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(3), 819-828.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rodriguez, J. M. (2011). Queer sociality and other sexual fantasies.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2-3), 331-348.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my understanding of the readings, antisocial thesis in queer theory is a thesis that presents queerness and queer people as being deeply conflicted, contradictory and incompatible with normative sociality. \u00a0It is a thesis that coincides with Leo Bersani\u2019s definition of sex as \u201canti-communitarian, self-shattering and anti-identitarian\u201d (PMLA 823). This way of thinking about sex &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/bl-week-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BL Week 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}