This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

3 ways gay rights agenda has perpetuated oppression

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3ways gay rights agenda has perpetuated oppression

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"The gay rights movement has won rights and recognition that largely serve the interests of white, wealthy cisgender gay men to the detriment of poor queers and queer people of color, and to the detriment of racial and economic justice more generally.
Again, these are victories for the only most enfranchised gay people. Thus, they are mechanisms for perpetuating injustice."



I've never thought of institution of marriage in depth and agreed that LGBTQA could start with marriage for equal rights movement for visibility for wider rights. After reading this article it completely changed my idea on marriage for LGBTQA community and the underline of what marriage is.


-Juwon
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