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- Title
The Post-Raciality and Post-Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ and Disability Visibility.
- Authors
Thomsen, Carly
- Abstract
In this article, I consider the ideologies that emerge when disability and LGBTQ rights advocates' ubiquitous calls for visibility collide. I argue that contemporary visibility politics encourage the production of post-racial and post-spatial ideologies. In demanding visibility, disability and LGBTQ rights advocates ignore, ironically, visible markers of (racial) difference and assume that being 'out, loud, and proud' is desirable trans-geographically. I bring together disability studies and queer rural studies-fields that have engaged in remarkably little dialogue-to analyze activist calls for LGBTQ and disability visibility. The discourses evident in such calls transcend movements and virtual spaces and emerge as some of the LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest whom I interviewed discuss their relations to (their own and others') LGBTQ sexuality and disability. I analyze several cases to illustrate how visibility discourses compel the erasure of material bodies, and in the process, render certain (spatialized and racialized) experiences obsolete. I close by considering how my critique of visibility discourses might influence critical discussions of identity politics more broadly.
- Subjects
IDEOLOGY; LGBTQ+ people's sexual behavior; TRANSPHOBIA; DISABILITY studies; DISABILITIES
- Publication
Hypatia, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
0887-5367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/hypa.12135