Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique

Questioning the emancipatory potential of hate crimes activism for sexual and gender non-normative people, this paper outlines the limits of criminal justice remedies to problems of gender, race, economic and sexual subordination. The first section considers some of the positive impacts of hate crimes activism, focusing on the benefits of legal naming for disenfranchised constituencies seeking political recognition. In the next section the authors outline the political shortcomings and troubling consequences of hate crimes activism. First, they examine how hate crimes activism is situated within a mainstream gay agenda, a term they use to designate the set of projects prioritized by large, national gay rights organizations. The authors question the assimilationist drive of mainstream gay activism, and illustrate how such activism fails to reflect commitments to anti-racism, feminism, and economic redistribution. Second, they critique how the rhetoric of hate crimes activism isolates specific instances of violence against queer and transgender people, categorizing these as acts of individual prejudice, and obscures an understanding of the systemic, institutional nature of gender and sexuality subordination. Finally in this section, the authors interrogate hate crimes statutes as a practice of identity politics that, despite accomplishing certain goals, nonetheless dangerously reifies constructs of homosexual identity. In the third and final section, they look at how work on hate crimes occupies a place of legitimacy in the world of lesbian and gay activism. Preserving a sense of what hate crimes activism hopes to accomplish, they suggest other political strategies that pursue broader work for social and economic justice and build coalitions across identity categories

Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique

Questioning the emancipatory potential of hate crimes activism for sexual and gender non-normative people, this paper outlines the limits of criminal justice remedies to problems of gender, race, economic and sexual subordination. The first section considers some of the positive impacts of hate crimes activism, focusing on the benefits of legal naming for disenfranchised constituencies seeking political recognition. In the next section the authors outline the political shortcomings and troubling consequences of hate crimes activism. First, they examine how hate crimes activism is situated within a mainstream gay agenda, a term they use to designate the set of projects prioritized by large, national gay rights organizations. The authors question the assimilationist drive of mainstream gay activism, and illustrate how such activism fails to reflect commitments to anti-racism, feminism, and economic redistribution. Second, they critique how the rhetoric of hate crimes activism isolates specific instances of violence against queer and transgender people, categorizing these as acts of individual prejudice, and obscures an understanding of the systemic, institutional nature of gender and sexuality subordination. Finally in this section, the authors interrogate hate crimes statutes as a practice of identity politics that, despite accomplishing certain goals, nonetheless dangerously reifies constructs of homosexual identity. In the third and final section, they look at how work on hate crimes occupies a place of legitimacy in the world of lesbian and gay activism. Preserving a sense of what hate crimes activism hopes to accomplish, they suggest other political strategies that pursue broader work for social and economic justice and build coalitions across identity categories

Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics

This paper attempts to trace the links between the Lawrence v. Texas decision and campaigns for gay marriage rights in order to envision movements that seek justice for more than just the most racially and economically privileged lesbians and gay men. The authors outline the limits of the agenda represented by Lawrence and propose alternative modes for resisting the coercive regulation of sexuality, gender, and family formations

You Don't Have to Be Straight to Shoot Straight'

(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 1997(Electronic Access) RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.(Source of Description) This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.(Local) Faculty Sponsor: Wallace, Miriam(Statement of Responsibility) by Craig Wills

Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism: A Radical Critique

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Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics

This paper attempts to trace the links between the Lawrence v. Texas decision and campaigns for gay marriage rights in order to envision movements that seek justice for more than just the most racially and economically privileged lesbians and gay men. The authors outline the limits of the agenda represented by Lawrence and propose alternative modes for resisting the coercive regulation of sexuality, gender, and family formations

Beyond biopolitics : essays on the governance of life and death /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : beyond biopolitics : the governance of life and death / Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse -- National enterprise emergency : steps toward an ecology of powers / Brian Massumi -- Human security/national security : gender branding and population racism / Patricia Ticineto Clough and Craig Willse -- "The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices of profiling / Jasbir K. Puar -- Strict scrutiny : the tragedy of constitutional law / Sora Y. Han -- Necrologies, or, the death of the body politic / Eugene Thacker -- Mnemonic control / Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman -- Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman -- Strange circulations : the blood economy in rural China / Ann S. Anagnost -- Necropolitical surveillance: immigrants from Turkey in Germany / Çağatay Topal -- From the race war to the war on terror / Randy Martin -- "Seeing" spectral agencies : an analysis of lin+lam and unidentified Vietnam / Una Chung -- Here we accrete durations : toward a practice of intervals in the perceptual mode of power / Amit S. Rai -- Fascia and the grimace of catastrophe / May Joseph -- Blackness and governance / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney