Citizenship acts: queer migrants and the negotiation of identity and belonging at Toronto Pride Week 2009.

10.32920/ryerson.14665980 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Johannah May Black

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Life Experience ◽

Cultural Citizenship ◽

Liminal Space ◽

Cultural Narrative ◽

Negotiation Of Identity

The broader goal of this research is apply queer theory to the cultural narrative of migration in order to confuse, destabilize and complicate our pre-conceived notions about what it means to “belong” to a given community of society, what it means to cross borders, and what it means to be(come) “Canadian”. Drawing on the notion of “cultural citizenship”, this research will focus on the politics of belonging that are embedded in the spectacle of Toronto Pride Week 2009, as a prominent site of negotiation for queer migrant identities. In order to get at a more nuanced and complicated understanding of integration, this research will also be centered around the subjective life experience of Luka, a queer migrant who is also a performer at Pride Week. Luka’s performance will be discussed as a liminal space, which points to multiple ambivalences, and thus acts to challenge the discourse of identity and belonging. Keywords: queer migrants, performative identity, cultural citizenship, Pride Week, Toronto.

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At the end of the line: on kairological history

Classical Receptions Journal ◽

10.1093/crj/clz027 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 62-90

Author(s):

Brooke Holmes

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

First Century ◽

Medieval Studies ◽

The Past ◽

Negotiation Of Identity ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Making Choices ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Anatomy ◽

Identity And Difference

Abstract This essay examines, from a position within Classics, different angles on critiques of historicism and the turn to anachronism in History, Art History, Medieval Studies, and Queer Theory before proposing the idea of ‘kairological history’, on the model of the artist Paul Chan’s ‘kairological art’. On this analysis, ‘kairological history’ engages the critical and creative resources of anachronic thinking alongside tools of historicism (e.g. empiricism, successionism, periodization, alterity) in making choices about ‘telling time’. These choices reflect a critical understanding of how temporality shapes the valuation of the past, particularly in relation to a ‘classical’ past; the negotiation of identity and difference between past and present; and the kinds of communities that history aims to support. The second half of the essay examines two instances of anachronism within the history of anatomy, one from Galen and one from the early twenty-first century. Both cases represent problems that historicism can correct. But the modality of correction, in itself, is anaemic and risks the very teleology that linear history is so often faulted for. The essay therefore explores what gets lost and what gets found when temporality is aligned with linearity, as well as non-linear modes of telling time.

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Standpoint, Objectivity, and Social Construction: Reflections from the Study of Gay and Lesbian Communities

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.1682 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 130-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Mike Homfray

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Gay Men ◽

Life Experience ◽

Real Life ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Theoretical Developments

This article considers a number of related concepts – standpoint, objectivity, emancipation – in the light of my own research which looked at gay and lesbian communities in the north-west of England. It advocates and promotes the use of gay and lesbian standpoint and defends research with emancipatory aims, notably in the light of academic and theoretical developments which eschew real-life experience and categories of identity rooted in lived actuality. Suggesting that queer theory is largely irrelevant to the lives of gay men and lesbians, it advocates a return to an engaged and practical sociology which acknowledges the benefit of research which has potential for application by the communities it observes.

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Articulation Training: A New Perspective

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1003.145 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 145-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sallie W. Hillard ◽

Laura P. Goepfert

Keyword(s):

Life Experience ◽

Remediation Measures ◽

New Perspective

This paper describes the concept of teaching articulation through words which have inherent meaning to a child’s life experience, such as a semantically potent word approach. The approach was used with six children. Comparison of pre/post remediation measures indicated that it has promise as a technique for facilitating increased correct phoneme production.

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