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  • Binghamton University: Northeast Regional Opener 1AC

    • Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: WVU PW | Judge: John Clarke


    • Democracy legitimizes the state’s ability to construct individual’s identities by creating an acceptable norm through institutions of power and denying individuals that refuse to engage with those institutions. Even assumed “minorities” are recognized as legitimate through democracy, while queers are continually erased.
      Warner, 93
      (Michael, Fear of a Queer Planet, Google Reader, pg 171-14, CW, accessed on 8/17/11) 

      The modern liberal … legitimation in modernity. 

      The construction of identity that takes place in democracy has permeated this year into the debate community. The resolution asks us provide “democracy assistance” but this forces the debaters to actively construct identities and impose norms against queer bodies. Debaters refusing to perpetuate this normative thought are created as enemies to the community, just as deviants inside democracy are given the identity of the enemy while good debaters and individuals inside democracy are rewarded with citizen.  
      Meeks, 01
      (Chet, November, “Civil Society and the Sexual Politics of Difference,” Sociological Theory
      Volume 19, Issue 3, pages 325–343, accessed on 7/21/11, CW)  

      Whereas earlier theorists … Alexander's code to function.   

      You see Chas and I are the queers on our campus, in this community, and this round. We are the enemy that democracy constructs, the resolution acts as the invisible center for which heteronormativity is able to take charge and cause the normalization of the queers. This allows for the continued domination, marginalization, and eradication of individuals not seen as fit to be within its framework.
      Yep, Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, 2004. (Gust A., Ph.D. in Communication., Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), pg. 18). Jt 

      In this passage, … class, gender, and sexuality. 

      Do not care about the future of the debate community – tying ourselves to resolution prevents the queers from being recognized. You must focus on the here and now in order to form resistance against heteronormativity
      Giffney, 06
      (Noreen, postdoctoral fellow in Women’s Studies, School of Social Justice at University College Dublin,“Queer Apocal(o)ptic/ism: The Death Drive And The Human”, published in Queering the Non-Human, p. 48-59) RKB

      What characterises queer …disturb one’ (Edelman 2004, 17). 

      Queering concepts of freedom allows us to disrupt heteronormativity by tracing back to the points where identities were constructed.
      Winnubst 06
      (Shannon philosophy PhD, Penn State UniversityShannon, Queering Freedom 2006. p 139 GoogleBooks, CW, accessed on 11/25/10)

      So, why queer … resist differently altogether  

      The 1AC is a coming out experience for the debate community. Through the queering of this year’s resolution we are able to suspend the anticipation of the future and open up a space that will allow for us to rupture the heteronormativity that is reproduced in this space, round after round and tournament after tournament. We will sever off the head of reason and lift the anxiety the queers brings to our community.
      Winnubst 06 (Shannon philosophy PhD, Penn State UniversityShannon, Queering Freedom 2006. p 139 GoogleBooks, CW, accessed on 11/25/10)

      If queer emerges … in late modernity. 

      This debate space is key – Your ballot does matter, too long have judges been complicit with perpetuating these hierarchies – We ask you to join us in our attempt to deconstruct the inherent harms in our community and to help us conceptualize a freer debate community – the framework for this round should be a contestation over the best methodology for disrupting heteronormativity  
      Yep, Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, 2004. (Gust A., Ph.D. in Communication., Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), pg. 47-48). Jt 

      In other words… human sexual subject.   

      The Belief that our activisms must respond to the political conditions of our time through the leveraging of particular institutional appeals is precisely what nullifies our ethical potential.  No matter the force of its opposition, the connection of transformation with an appeal to our institutions, mediates our relationships in such a manner that ethical transformation outside this frame of mediation becomes impossible.
      Hershock, 1999 (Peter D., Project Fellow at the EastWest Center, Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii, "Changing the Way Society Changes: Transposing Social Activism into a Dramatic Key", Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6, p 158-150, http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/6/hershock991.pdf) cnb

      I have argued at some …. yet generic co-existence  



  • AT: Cap

    • Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: WVU PW | Judge: John Clarke


    • Queer theory operates as a platform which a coalition can be formed to breakdown capitalism
      Cover 2004 (“material/queer theory: performativity, subjectivity, and affinity –based struggles in the culture of late capitalism” rethinking Marxism” Ebsco Host,  CW, accessed on 12/1/10) 

      By maintaining attention … oppositional anticapitalist stance.

      We are the negative – but you can’t solve the aff – your methodology locks us into a static identity while ours allows us to fluidily access different understanding of oppression
      Puar, 05
      (Jasbir K, “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” Social Media Text, CW, accessed on 8/20/11) 

      As there is no … becoming/s beyong being/s.



  • AT: Bare Witness

    • Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 1 | Opponent: WVU PW | Judge: John Clarke


    • Giffney 08 (Noreen, Professor of Queer Theory at University College of Dublin, Queering the Non/Human, p. 65, CW, accessed on 2/22/11)  

      For Edelman, reproductive … mechanisms in motion’ (69).  

      The US will always use discourse of tolerance and acceptance to promote a nationalistic agenda of globalization and violence.
      Luibhéid, associate professor of women's studies at the University of Arizona, 2008. (Eithne,. Ph.D., director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at Arizona University., “Queer/Migration: An Unruly Body of Scholarship”, GLQ Journal, Vol. 14, No 2-3, 2008). Jt

      The final group … and asylum seekers.41  

      Stavrakakis, 2007 (Yannis, 03-30 Lacan and the Political Thinking the Political p. 71. Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition, CW, accessed on 7/9/11)

      Chapter 2 examined the … encounters the real. 



09/16/11
  • Binghamton University: Northeat Regional Opener Round 3

    • Tournament: Binghamton | Round: 3 | Opponent: Vermont DN | Judge: Chad Infante


    • Queers read this (excerpts, http://www.bilerico.com/2010/08/queers_read_this.php#more):

      How can I tell you ... save your life!


      Signed,


       Anonymous queers


      This year the question asked of us is: should the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen? Where is the resolution that asks to how best stop hate crimes for one or more of the following: class, gender, race, sexual orientation, or disability?

      Through the resolution the debate community becomes part of the heteronormative establishment by centering our own subjectivity on an objective action by an external actor.

      Yep, Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, 2004. (Gust A., Ph.D. in Communication., Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), pg. 18). Jt

      In this passage, Simmons ... gender, and sexuality.

      We have firsthand knowledge of a heteronormative society, we go to Liberty University, the founder said, “Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way.”
      This how civil society works in order to control the queers, we are identified as the enemy, as individuals that will bring about destruction.

      Meeks, 01 (Chet, November, “Civil Society and the Sexual Politics of Difference,” Sociological Theory
      Volume 19, Issue 3, pages 325–343, accessed on 7/21/11, CW)

      Jeffrey Alexander defines... pure form" (1992:290).   

      We are bashing back against all establishment of society that attempt to control our identity – we are reclaiming our own subjectivity. No longer will we stand for the violence pushed against us, instead we will fight back.

      Rand, 2004 (E.J. “A Disunited Nation and a Legacy of Contradiction: Queer Nation's Construction of Identity,” Journal of Communication Inquiry, CW, accessed on 8/3/11)

      One of the ... their shared homosexuality.  

      Our queer anger is able to produce change in society – lash out against the individuals that want to see you subdued or better yet dead
      Giffney 08 (Noreen, Professor of Queer Theory at University College of Dublin, Queering the Non/Human, p. 70-71, CW, accessed on 3/17/11)  

      Although Edelman offers ... the earth’ (1991/1973, 339).   

      Do not worry about the future of the debate community – tying ourselves to resolution prevents the queers from being recognized. You must focus on the here and now in order to form resistance against the dominant power structures
      Giffney 08 (Noreen, Professor of Queer Theory at University College of Dublin, Queering the Non/Human, p. 65, CW, accessed on 3/17/11)  

      Reproductive futurism imposes... to its ideals.  


      This debate space is key – Your ballot does matter, judges are complicit with heteronormativity.  
      Yep, Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, 2004. (Gust A., Ph.D. in Communication., Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), pg. 47-48). Jt

      In other words,... human sexual subject.   



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