Tournament: Blue Key | Round: 1 | Opponent: Apopka | Judge: Michael Ortega
Starts with definitions, value, and value criterion
Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies University of Arizona, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix,” GLQ, 1994, p. 85-86
I will say this as bluntly as I know how....the seams and sutures in yourself.
The notion of rights is dependent on the fantasy of law providing justice—to recognize antiqueer violence as a result of a larger cultural problem would render the law useless. Antiqueer violence pervades us trans people are killed by police and transphobes, who get out of it through qualified immunity.
Eric, fellow in departments of Communication and Critical Gender Studies, “Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture,” 2011, pg. 7-8
The problem of privatizing violence...as the technology, of safety
Transgender people who fail to fall into the normative binary are spoken over and denied subjectivity on a quotidian level. This forces the impossibility of authentic lived experiences.
Sandy, Department of Radio, Television and Film, the University of Texas at Austin, “THE "EMPIRE" STRIKES BACK: A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO,” 1994
"Making" history, whether autobiographic...If the transsexual were to speak, what would s/he say?
Susan, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” GLQ, pp. 248-251
A formal disjunction seems...to transform your world.
Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, “TRANS*/MATTER/REALITIES AND QUEER POLITICAL IMAGININGS,” GLQ, 2015, p. 410-416
I find no shame . . . in acknowledging