logicp_writings/new/Groomers2_notes.md

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