En torno a una cierta "negativa lavender a expresar(se)"

A través del análisis de un corpus discursivo multicultural, este trabajo demuestra que no hay razón para presuponer que "estar fuera del armario" sea la meta con la cual se comprometen o deban comprometerse, necesaria y universalmente, todos los sujetos identificados como homosexuales. A partir la tesis del "discurso del sujeto tácito" y de la "cautela" estratégica, el artículo da cuenta de la negativa -por parte de una diversidad de hablantes varones gays y trans, no blancos o no angloamericanos- a expresar verbalmente su propia sexualidad, que ellos viven abiertamente. Se trata de una práctica sociolingüística "lavender" que, distinguiéndose de la revelación pública como el modelo angloamericano de identificación y pertenencia comunitaria gay, tampoco debe confundirse con el silencio o el closet: es una opción de enunciación de los propios sujetos sexuales -homo y trans- que el autor analiza en comunidades afroamericanas, hispanas, francesas, taiwanesas y en hombres transgénero de Washington DC.Through an analysis of cross-cultural discursive data, this paper demonstrates that there is no reason to assume that 'outness' must be the universal goal with which all same-sex identifed subjects must be engaged. Based on the thesis of the 'tacit subject discourse' and of 'stealth', the article accounts for the refusal -on the part of a number of diferent non-white or non-Anglo-American, male gay and female-to-male transgender speakers- to voice their openly lived sexuality. It is claimed that this is a 'lavender' sociolinguistic practice, which must be distinguished from both silence (the closet) and public disclosure as the Anglo-American model for gay identifcation and community belonging: it is an enunciative choice that the homosexual and transgender subjects themselves make, and that the author analyses in Afro-American, Hispanic, French and Taiwanese communities and in transgender men in the Washington DC area

Linguistique queer, sexualité et analyse du discours

La linguistique queer s’est constituée relativement récemment, mais a très rapidement trouvé sa place parmi les champs académiques qui s’intéressent à l’articulation entre langage, genre et sexualité. De la même manière que les recherches linguistiques sur le genre, la linguistique queer refuse d’aborder les pratiques langagières à travers le prisme de la binarité femme/homme (ou encore à travers un choix réduit d’identités que l’on associe à des pratiques et préférences sexuelles, telles que homo/hétéro). Un des objectifs de la linguistique queer est de révéler les suppositions/idéologies qui amènent les chercheur·euse·s à considérer le genre comme un cadre prédéterminé et figé.Queer linguistics is a relatively recent academic formation, but one that has quickly become firmly embedded in the current conversations about language, gender, and sexuality. As is also the case in language and gender studies (see Coates, this volume), queer linguistics refuses to frame discussions of linguistic practices in terms of an assumed male/female binary (or on a limited set of identities based solely on erotic practices and preferences). Instead, queer linguistics exposes the assumptions that lead researchers to view gender in terms of a predetermined, static framework

Queer Language Matters

For many lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer (LGBTQ) activists, visibility stands as a central measure of equal rights campaigns...

"I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness

This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, working-class, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people’s identity work emerges in response to the homophobia and ‘othering’ they have experienced from those in their local community. Through ethnography and discourse analysis, and using theoretical frameworks from interactional sociolinguistics, the strategies that the young people employ to negotiate this othering are explored; they reject certain stereotypes of queer culture (such as Gay Pride or being ‘camp’), and aim to minimise the relevance of their sexuality to their social identity. It is argued this reflects both the influence of neoliberal, ‘homonormative’ ideology, which casts sexuality in the private rather than public domain, and the stigma their sexuality holds in their local community. These findings point to the need to understand identity construction intersectionally

Girl meets girl: sexual sitings in lesbian romantic comedies

Hollywood romantic comedies are, by and large, an ideologically conservative genre. Based around gender stereotypes and the idealised pursuit, however disguised, of heteropatriarchal monogamy, Hollywood romantic comedies offer countless variations of heteronormative ‘intimacy’. How, then, does the shift from ‘boy meets girl’ to ‘girl meets girl’ in lesbian romantic comedies—a genre that emerged in 1994 with the release of films like Bar Girls and Go Fish—effect the representation of intimacy? This chapter focuses on Better than Chocolate to investigate how lesbian intimacies, and lesbian sex in particular, occupy space. Where are lesbian intimacies sited and what, if any, negotiations of space are triggered through the embodiment of those intimacies? Ultimately, this chapter argues that through an unusually explicit emphasis on sex, Better than Chocolate draws attention to the limited public mobility of lesbian intimacies through a consistent siting of lesbian sex as a site of spatial negotiation

2018 Research & Innovation Day Program

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2017 Research & Innovation Day Program

A one day showcase of applied research, social innovation, scholarship projects and activities.https://first.fanshawec.ca/cri_cripublications/1004/thumbnail.jp