Audiobook11 hours
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming
Written by Carly Thomsen
Narrated by Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation.
Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful-the past, the rural, politics-is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility.
Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful-the past, the rural, politics-is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility.
Related to Visibility Interrupted
Related audiobooks
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarried Women Who Love Women: And More... Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Out In Time: From Stonewall to Queer: How Gay Men Came of Age Across the Generations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tragedy of Heterosexuality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSexual Consent Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Body Is Distant: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebent Sinner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming a Visible Man: Second Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Holding Still for as Long as Possible Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Risk it Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaniel Webb: Hoes Parade at the Rose Bowl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Daddies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feminist, Queer, Crip Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
LGBTQIA+ Studies For You
Selected Works of Audre Lorde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Queer Art of Failure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Book Is Gay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Capote: A Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who's Afraid of Gender? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letter to a Bigot: Dead But Not Forgotten Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Visibility Interrupted
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews