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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Juana Maria Rodriguez, in her unpublished chapter “Sexual Subjects, Queer Gestures,” examines discourses of queer domesticity as it relates to LGBT politics.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 →

The prison-military-industrial complex is an intricate system of relationships between the influx of inmates, the political influence of private prison companies and businesses, trade in bodies, and surveillance. Compounded in this system of interaction is the trafficking, under the guise … Continue reading →

I was talking to a friend about the topics of discussion this week, and she led me to an activist named Angela Davis. Here’s a little background on her from good ol’ Wikipedia: “Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an … Continue reading →

Mobility and immobility are important and interesting to the prison-industrial-military complex.  Those who are portrayed as good have unlimited mobility to move about the complex in which they inhabit.  Those who have unlimited mobility are usually the workers.  The prisoners … Continue reading →

The prison-industrial-military complex is….complex.  If I let myself think about it too hard, the relationships between controller and controlled, protector and protected, and native and foreign start to get mixed up in my head in a way that turn prior … Continue reading →

While Delinquent, Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo’s All American Story, and Intimate Investments: Homonormativity, Global Lockdown, and the Seductions of Empire all address differing topics in terms of youth and the prison industrial-complex, migrant detention, and global lockdown respectively, these topics may not … Continue reading →

So, I like to plop definitions down into my posts, and this week is no different.  I find doing so especially appropriate since we spent some time in class yesterday defining common terms like empire and economy, discovering the definitions were … Continue reading →

The performance Delinquent, Alisa Solomon, and Anna Agathangelou, M. Daniel Bassichis, and Tamara Spira all challenge the prison industrial complex, especially in regard to the United States. Delinquent focuses on prison and youth, whereas Solomon looks at queer bodies and … Continue reading →