Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Law Magnet MG | Judge: Chris Vincent
The 1AC is benign discourse of heteronormativity – Queerness is both an invisible center as well as an ostracized Other. These institutions and structures of understanding are the bedrock to all forms of violence.
Yep ’13 (Gust, “The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies', Journal of Homosexuality, 45: 2, 11 — 59)s
In this passage, Simmons vividly describes the devastating pervasiveness of hatred and violence in
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living at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
The modern nation state is defined by what it opposes and excludes, it uses difference to enshrine a collective national identity. Heteronormativity is able to adapt to policy discourse to justify isn’t own existence
Gaard, 97 educator, writer, scholar and activist working at the intersections of literature, feminism, and environmental justice, 97 (Greta, ‘Toward A Queer Ecofeminism’, Hypatia. Volume: 12. Issue: 1. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 114.)
In her study of race and gender in international politics, Cynthia Enloe finds important
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, masculine over and against feminine, reason over and against the erotic.
The Alternative is to reject the AFF as an act of Radical Queer Negation. Positioning the queer as negative is a totalizing act of rejection. We must be at war with the 1AC
The Mary Nardini Gang in 2009 Mary Nardini gang 2009 (criminal queers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin “toward the queerest insurrection” 2009)gingE
Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or
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learn to be a threat, we can become the queerest of insurrections.
. The 1NC is that act of mutiny against a social order premised on the queer’s death that the 1AC believes can be changed through *insert what the 1AC does here.* This whole world is ordered toward queer death.
Queer Nation 1990 (Queer Nation, originally ACT UP AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, was a radical, militant queer liberation group. Text taken from http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/queernation.html, altered to resist fascist censorship).
I have friends. Some of them are straight. Year after year, I
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about queer anger. Otherwise, tell them to shut up and listen.
Heteronormativity results in omnicide. The combination of the universal suspicion of Queerness and the genocidal impulse to eradicate it motivates a larger apocalyptic movement to rescue hetero-culture with extinction.
Sedgwick 8 (Eve, Professor of English at Duke University, Epistemology of the Closet, second revised edition, California at Berkeley Press, p. 127-130)
From at least the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, scenarios of same-
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thought between minority potentials and universalizing ones be opened and opened and opened?
Embrace the impractical – leave the stagnant waters of the academy by embracing our philosophy on the fly,
Halberstam 13 “Charming for the Revolution: A Gaga Manifesto” (Jack, professor of English at the University of Southern California)pday
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence,
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of one local and subcultural scene does not have to displace another one.
