# Groomers 2

## Intro
- Grooming mentality
- Destabilizing identity in a politically actionable away
- Lead to transhumanism in the sense of Donnah Harroway's conception of a genderless, raceless, collectivist cyborg manufactured and programmed to have particular affinities which replace identities. Thus allowing a cohesive, political affinity which applies universally to all entities.

## WEF
- Use hi-tech medicine and infrastructure to plug humans into a semi-digital world

## Groomers 2
- Problematize innocence to destroy it
- Contemporary form of sexual liberation movement
- Comprehensive Sex Education and Social Emotional Learning
- Destabilize and disregard structure of reality if it supports supposed power dynamics and hegemony

## Lukach
- Destabilize through sexualization to make manipulable
- Young will hate the old generation
- The revolution proceeds off the back of destabilized identities
- No expectation for normal behaviour - achieve authentic expression

## Interrogating Innocence (2018 Julie C Garland)
- Exclusionary practice

## Queer Futurity and Childhood Innocence
- Assuming asexuality and proto-heterosexuality yield contradictions
- Emphasize sexuality within children's education
- Asexual children (presexual) is heteronormative thinking
- Counter this by emphasizing sexuality

### Queer Childhood
*Eve Sedgwick*
- Bringing up your kids gay at odds with childhood innocence
- Suggests that colonialism and slavery have corrupted our theories about childhood development
- Our ideas about childhood innocence are interwoven with white privilege i.e. Childhood innocence is racial innocence and naivety, which demonstrates one's privilege

## Queer Futurity 1
- References Eve's work as initiating consideration of childhood as a site of heteronormative intervention
- Cisheteronormativity is their bourgeois property or white privilege
- Assumes that heterosexuality is being artificially impressed upon the children to indoctrinate them (Iron Law of Woke Projection)

### Standard M.O.
- Conflate normativity with morality
- The more unique and distant an identity is from normal, the greater the capacity for moral judgment
- Assumes variation is morally relevant

#### First Impressions (Limitations)
- Denies broad acceptance of homosexuality
- Marcusian lamentation that acceptance nullifies propensity for change
- Empowered by the fuel of catastrophisized minorities who demand revolution
- Target children to have them believe that mere inauthentic acceptance has been insufficient
- Exacerbate alienation as a revolutionary force: *"It's always open season on gay kids" - Eve Sedgwick*

#### Homonormativity over Heteronormativity
- Advocates strategizing to increase likelihood of gay outcomes
- Equates normative upbringing as a desire for non-gay outcome
- Characterizes 1980 DSM-3 removal of homosexuality as erroneously celebrated (does not signal liberation)
- Considers Gender Identity Disorder as incorrect realignment of Queer identities with heterosexuality
- Contradiction of criticizing stabilization of homosexuality while criticizing addition of destabilized category (Gen. ID Disorder)
- "loving reparation" of "figure" of "child's queer body" whose gender unreasonably "catches" "mother's femininity" or "father's masculinity" which "were not the first shadings of gender"

#### Eve's Recent Remarks
- Rethink, reinhabit the child with attention to queer character
- Potential for metrics allowing "sideways growth"
- Child is both limit and hope for Queer Theory
- Child is dense site of meaning for queer sociality/alienation
- Stable identity = limit, Alienation = hope
- Homophobic culture anxiously depends on reproducing heteronormative future

#### Sexuality for Revolutionary Potential
- Early Childhood Education should not resist attending conversations on politics and sexual subjectivity
*Your immoral motive for not doing what I say is precisely why you must do what I say*
- Palpable nervousness and discomfort when childhood comes into contact with sexuality
*Childhood innocence seen as hegemonic narrative to be disrupted and dismantled*
- Arguments RE childrens' sexualities stabilize queerness as identity rather than preserving a site of collective contestation
*Queerness should not be stabilized, but something to collectize around, even if it's childhood sexuality*

#### Hannah Argues to Queer ECE
- Child development theories are destructive if not attuned to possibility that children are or will become queer
- Damaging expectation of childhood innocence represents child as figure without complexity
- Insistence on childhood innocence injures development and might