Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity

Authors

  • Hillery Glasby Ohio University

Keywords:

queer, homonormativity, same-sex marriage, alternative rhetoric, negotiation, linguistic performativity.

Abstract

“Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation – Marriage Equality and Homonormativity†is a project that grew from personal tensions the author faced while simultaneously reading critical queer critiques of the marriage equality movement and homonormativity and planning her own same-sex wedding. Rather than argue a clear-cut position, the author explores conflicting discourses on same-sex marriage and openly struggles with her multiple subject positions. Blending photography, personal writing, alternative rhetorics, and traditional academic discourse, the author investigates what’s at stake with her upcoming same-sex wedding, while remaining conscious of queer politics. This project argues that queer participation in marriage has the power to undo the category of married rather than round it out, thereby disrupting its historically discriminatory ideologies, regulatory functions, and exclusivity.

Author Biography

Hillery Glasby, Ohio University

Hillery Glasby is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Ohio University. She currently serves as the Assistant Director of Composition and teaches Queer Rhetorics and Writing. Glasby’s research centers on the intersection of queer theory and composition studies, queer and alternative rhetorics, and critical, queer, and liberatory pedagogies. Her aim in the classroom, and in her scholarship, is to tie theory to practice in the vein of social justice.

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Published

2014-04-12

Issue

No. 11 (2014): Digital Activism

Section

Issue #11: Digital Activism

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