...at what point do we really stop accepting the term queer, on its own, as some sort of inherently anti-normative position. i mean *really* stop accepting it, and that includes in my own field of 19th century studies, which is really guilty of this, but also /2
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in the field of queer theory generally. And my deepest feeling about it is this: the thing you can never ever name is the (racist/discursive/actual) violence of white women and white queers. Because their causes are preserved as and at the front line of liberal sympathy. /3
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to my mind, the whole Avital Ronell scandal needs a lot more “And/also” thinking. She is being especially persecuted as a queer white woman, yes, as opposed to ALL of the dudes who have been abusive for centuries. AND — /4
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She exhibited the kind of pedagogical behavior reserved for academic elites, whose behavior is often subject to a certain kind of truly untenable behavioral drift, AND ALSO /5
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.. it was highly inappropriate even if probably and seemingly totally encouraged by her student until he couldn’t manage it anymore. AND ALSO /6
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it is unbelievably galling and hard to watch white queers who are also academic elites defend each other because they let the rest of us down so often and so hard. and the optics of that might be better and more thoughtfully managed /7
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AND ALSO the fact that prominent black queer theorists are exhibiting a lot of suspicion around this whole scandal needs to be listened to and taken seriously. I’m especially trying to internalize
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About how indexing QPOC as an “of course” in these arguments does not do enough work to extend the analysis. AND ALSO /9
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I’m thinking hard about
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I just cannot totally stomach the idea that queer sociality has somehow outpaced the norms of the institution but I get the point that is being made here at the same time. It’s just that it’s excusing too much here, as far as I can tell. /12
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and also, I’ll tell you what I really care about. I care that amid the defense of white female queer theorists, I spend half my life talking to women of color academics who are f*cking exhausted and stuck in jobs or situations that are abusive /13
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and they are trying to manage their rage, and stay productive and intact, and deal with health issues and family and the everyday psychic violence of it all and in the midst of it, this dynastic drama, of friends defending friends is hard to see. /14
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somehow in the middle of all of this, women of color and queers of color just keep getting the mental, physical and psychic hell beaten out of them, and their abuse never makes the front page of the chronicle. /15
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I’m not aiming this at anyone so much as just saying AND ALSO that’s what I really care about these days. /16
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Also I guess, I’m just noticing the question of scale here; I’ve been trying to think and write about care as something that happens repetitively across scales: the local, the community, the institution. /18
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This year I became interested in rebuilding intellectual worlds more full of people that actually demonstrate they know what politics, as it is interpreted in the smallest scales as *care,* actually looks like. /18
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