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
