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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 for mof the 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

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