Monthly Archives: June 2011

Juana Maria Rodriguez speaks at length about queer adoption and its implications for the heteornormative moral/perverse binary.  This binary uses policies and law routed through norms to mark certain bodies as unsuitable for domesticity, and therefore, for legibility at all. … Continue reading →

Juana Maria Rodriguez, in her unpublished chapter “Sexual Subjects, Queer Gestures,” examines discourses of queer domesticity as it relates to LGBT politics. Rodriguez raises interesting and important points about queer familial kinship and children in her section “Adopting Children and … Continue reading →

Before reading this article, I never really thought about owning one’s children, and certainly never considered it under the context of gender studies. However, Juana Maria Rodriquez brings up a fascinating question about parenting, especially in the context of adoption, … Continue reading →

Rodriguez’s piece, “Sexual Subjects, Queer Gestures,” was as discomforting as it was illuminating for me.  Perhaps it illuminated through discomfort. I had never really thought to deconstruct parenting, because seems like such a natural process to me, and one which … Continue reading →

Juana Rodriguez writes in this chapter: “Before the perceived gay and lesbian baby boom of the 1990s, children were often seen as the unwelcome vestiges of previous heterosexual relationships, as the unplanned evidence of lusty slippages outside the gay and … Continue reading →

Two quotes I find most important and descriptive of Juana Maria Rodriguez’s claims about parental function, recognition, identification, and ownership through the lens of queer politics are: “The queer imperative becomes how to talk about parenting, and the circuits of … Continue reading →