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Reproductive Futurism
In queer theory and psychoanalysis, reproductive futurism is the concept that people place value over the future — such as having children — over their current situations. It was created by scholar Lee Edelman in his work '' No Future''. Background and usage Edelman created the term in the context of gay rights movements, which he saw as too culturally assimilationist. He criticised the marriage equality movement as placing inordinate value on marriage, procreation, and the traditional family A nuclear family, elementary family, cereal-packet family or conjugal family is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. It is in contrast to a single-parent family, the larger ... model. Rather than accepting the criticism from conservatives that LGBT cannot reproduce (and hence marriage is not something they deserve), gay rights activists argued that they were optimal parents and that they deserved marriage. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queer Antisociality
''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the late 1980s, queer activists, such as the members of Queer Nation, began to reappropriation, reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and Gay liberation, politically radical alternative to the more assimilationist branches of the LGBT community. In the 21st century, ''queer'' became increasingly used to describe a broad spectrum of non-normative sexual and/or gender identities and politics. Academic disciplines such as queer theory and queer studies share a general opposition to Gender binary, binarism, normativity, and a perceived lack of intersectionality, some of them only tangentially connected to the LGBT movement. Queer arts, queer cultural groups, and queer political groups are examples of modern expressions of queer identities. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
