Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Eagan JH | Judge: Alix Dahl
The Mary Nardini gang explains what the anti-queer world looks like and how queer bodies are forced to encounter violence in every part of their lives …
A fag is bashed because his gender ...become a problem for¶ the Totality.
A member of Queer Nation writes …
Queer Nation 90 (THE QUEER NATION MANIFESTO Text of a manifesto originally passed out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/queernation.html//RC)
I hate that in twelve years of ... while I have to fight like hell to be allowed to be a father. I hate straights.
A strategy that stabilizes a world that is anti-queer allows for assimilation strategies that allows “good white gays and lesbians” to be part of a larger power structure of capitalism, patriarchy, and heteronormativity that is violent against difference. The only strategy is a total conflict with the totality .
Mary Nardini gang (criminal queers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin “toward the queerest insurrection”RC)
In the discourse of queer, ...This is our¶ history.
We embrace that which is undesirable
Halberstam 12 (J. Jack cultural critic, a transgender theorist, and an activist Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. “Gaga Feminism Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal” 2012 RC)
And so, like Fleet Foxes, while ...with explicit imagery.
When facing a world of crisis we should embrace failure
Halberstam 12 (J. Jack cultural critic, a transgender theorist, and an activist Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. “Gaga Feminism Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal” 2012 RC)
Welcome to the gagapocalypse! ... All we can know for sure is that the protests signal and¶ announce a collective awareness of the end of “normal¶ life.”
We don’t want to assimilate – we embrace queerness as a radical act of defiance. A member of Queer Nation tells us that …
Queer Nation 90 (THE QUEER NATION MANIFESTO Text of a manifesto originally passed out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/queernation.html//RC)
I hate having to convince ...apparently.
Maybe instead, you should listen to the anger of queerness
Queer Nation 90 (THE QUEER NATION MANIFESTO Text of a manifesto originally passed out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/queernation.html//RC)
Let Yourself Be Angry ? ...tell them to shut up and listen.