User:RjR5789/R’s Queer and Trans Social Movement Rhetoric, Queer Archives, and LGBTQ+ youth and rhetoric

Topic 1: Queer and Trans Social Movement Rhetoric, Queer Archives, and LGBTQ+ Youth and Rhetoric
This will be a look into social justice movements surrounding the queer community. Including retorts to anti-pride rhetoric and the impact, both have on each other.

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The biggest takeaway from the topic articles has been that the threat of queer people simply because of their bodies and not because of any real action is incredibly harmful and powered by fear. These responses to anti-pride in the form of rhetoric are taking back space for people in the LGBTQ+ community and making it clear that this misdirection of fear towards people in the community is destructive to large communities of people. The intolerance being responded to in these articles is brought on simply by the existence of people in the community, not by their actions or anything they are doing.

The theme behind the rhetoric of the trans social movement is involved in pushback against certain types of anti-trans literature and political policy. A policy put into law that is outrightly against the rights of trans people has enabled certain types of trans rhetoric to push back against this. Queer and trans people who are simply trying to take up space in the world are creating space for themselves in this pushback against intolerance.

This exemplifies that anti-trans rhetoric operates under an umbrella of protection from parents who are against this for their children, "positive affective orientation of love and parental protection that understands cisheteronormativity as extraideological." (Bishop 132). Then goes on to highlight the harm that comes from this type of contradiction within the family. Lack of acceptance from ones own family can lead to leveraging cisheteronormativity into a postion of power over individuals who are trans and queer.