Sexy Navigations: Adventures in Building Love in Postnormal Times

World Futures Review ◽

10.1177/19467567211025753 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 194675672110257

Author(s):

C Scott Jordan

Keyword(s):

Sex And Gender ◽

Western Thought ◽

And Gender

Love has literally been debated to death by thinkers since time immemorial. This article seeks to reframe the discourse on love to restore life and appreciation for its complex beauty and free it from the hopeless utopian project contemporary times have made it into. Likewise, the over-categorization of Western thought has doomed the concepts of sex and gender. By exploring our increasingly postnormal world, and in light of the recent pandemic, this article seeks to reopen the discussion of love, sex, and gender in our precarious times so that we can better understand our identities and pre-empt future conflicts and plot navigations for other impasses occurring beside and simultaneous to the quest for love. By analyzing the concepts of the Manufactured Normalcy Field and the postnormal tilt, we can open up new opportunities to challenge the conventional definitions and structures that hold back society from attaining more accepting, understanding, and preferred futures.

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Westernization and The Transmogrification of Sailor Moon

interalia: a journal of queer studies ◽

10.51897/interalia/dsgq4165 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 78-89

Author(s):

Rhea Ashley Hoskin

Keyword(s):

Binary Systems ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Western Thought ◽

Gender Identities ◽

The West ◽

English Translations ◽

And Gender ◽

A Site ◽

Lost In Translation

Sailor Moon, a Japanese series grounded in manga and anime, began airing translations in the West throughout the 1990s. The series provided what could be interpreted as resistance to dichotomous conceptualizations of sexuality, sex and gender. The focus of this article is the set of challenges presented by the genderqueer characters in Sailor Moon and how Westernization and English translations have worked to erase and re-write queer identities. Arguably, Sailor Moon acts as a site to play out the contextualities and complexities of sexuality, sex and gender identities. To name Sailor Moon characters in Western specific terms would be at the expense of reducing the complexity of their identities to a categorical system whose boundaries detract and limit meaning. Queer characters in Sailor Moon are not translatable into dichotomous Western thought - categories fail us and, through their enforcement, the depth of meaning and the complexities of queer identities/desires are lost in translation. Working within Western binary systems, categories and language, many of these identities appear contradictory and incoherent. Sailor Moon characters offer a re-envisioning of identities that is not limited by Western binaric thought and cannot be easily pegged within the heterosexual matrix.

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