User:Thebodocious/T’s Trans Subjectivity and Communication, Rhetoric and Queer Public Memory, and Communication and Homonationalism

Lead: Public Memory
Public memory (sometimes referred to as collective memory) is defined as collective knowledge, information, memory, or shared experiences between a group that typically contributes to their identity. It can be passed on through a number of ways, such as oral tradition or written texts.

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Public memory has an important connection to the LGBTQ+ community. Because of the history behind the stigmatization and discrimination against LGBTQ+ identities, the concept of public memory is often associated with traumatic memories and experiences of past violence. However, public memory has also been utilized to help garner support for LGBTQ+ movements, through showcasing the lives of people with intersectional identities whose stories tend to be underrepresented and showcasing the lives of those lost to anti-LGBTQ+ violence in order to foster unity and connection.

Public memory, especially queer public memory, takes a number of different forms, from oration to physical monuments or texts, to digital archives. Scholars have cited the importance of digital archives as a resource for education, especially because of the increased ability for public interaction.

Lead: Transgender Subjectivity
Subjectivity is a term used to conceptualize how political power impacts the people under a political system, largely surrounding areas such as race, class, disability, gender, and sexuality. Transgender subjectivity is specific to the transgender community and how politics impacts the wellbeing of the community, whether through legislative or other forms of political action, or through everyday interactions with other people within the public sphere.

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Commonly discussed issue areas among scholars within the realm of transgender subjectivity are within the legal context, such as the rights for transgender people to adopt children, involvement in sports, and bodily autonomy ranging from surgeries and hormone usage to public restrooms. Debate about the impacts of legislation surrounding these issue areas, and how they impact the transgender community, is also heavily present in academic spaces.

Separately, another aspect of transgender subjectivity is how transgender individuals exist in the world around them and how they are perceived within society. LGBTQ+ rhetoric scholars frequently explore the layers to transgender representation within media and how the community is talked about, such as potential differences in treatment on an individual level.

Lead: Queer Counterpublics
Counterpublic (sometimes counter-public or counter public) is defined as a subset of publics that stand in conscientious opposition to a dominant ideology and strategically subvert that ideology's construction in public discourse. Within the context of the queer community, this means standing in opposition to heteronormativity, and represents all facets of queer culture.

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Counterpublics are larger than the LGBTQ+ community, but members of the community often identify heavily with the concept of a counterpublic in order to find community among heteronormativity. The concept of counterpublics allow marginalized communities to build subcultures that foster further acceptance and belonging, as well as helping build safe spaces for queer youth in areas that might not be accessible for them such as bars or club settings.