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LGBTQ + Community and the oppression this population has experienced in which is heterosexism
Relate one of the topics from Module 3 which are (concepts of power, privilege) and one theoretical framework addressing inequalities from Module 4 to this presentation research. Explore one of the topics from Module 3 and one theory from Module 4 in more depth in some way related to your chosen population, based on what you’ve learned through interviews and looking into local community resources.
Module 3 – Compartmentalized thinking about issues of power and privilege can be misleading. Few people in our society are in perpetual positions of absolute power and privilege, or absolute powerlessness and oppression. People cannot generally be neatly divided into categories of having and not having power.
Heterosexism
The assumption that all people are or should be heterosexual (sexually and/or romatically attracted to people of a different gender). Heterosexism excludes the needs, concerns, and life experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, Two-Spirit, queer, demisexual, and other sexual minority groups, while it gives advantages to heterosexual people. It is often a subtle form of oppression, which reinforces realities of silence and invisibility. (LGBT Resource Center, 2022)
“A gender-equal society would be one where the word gender does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.”
~ Gloria Steinem
Module 4 –
What is Intersectionality?
The concept of intersectionality describes the ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of discrimination “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects.
For example, when a Muslim woman wearing the Hijab is being discriminated, it would be impossible to dissociate her [identity as a woman] from her Muslim identity and to isolate the dimension(s) causing her discrimination.
All forms of inequality are mutually reinforcing and must therefore be analyzed and addressed simultaneously to prevent one form of inequality from reinforcing another. For example, tackling the gender pay gap alone – without including other dimensions such as race, socio-economic status and immigration status – will likely reinforce inequalities among women.”
(Center for Intersectional Justice, n.d.)
Queer Theory
Queer Theory (QT) can be summarized as exploring the oppressive power of dominant norms, particularly those relating to sexuality, and the immiseration they cause to those who cannot, or do not wish to, live according to those norms. In analysing the power of ‘the normal’, QT contributes to a politics and ethics of difference. It challenges dominant norms, especially those of sexuality. (University of Illinois Library, n.d.)
Queer Theory
Emphasizes deconstructing identities, challenging binary conceptualizations (gay/straight), and centering the non-normative (Halperin, 2003; LeFrançois, 2013). Queer theory is a reaction to and destabilizing of gay and lesbian studies (Halperin, 2003) and essentialist understandings of identity (Slagle, 2003), such as thinking that sexuality, gender, and reproduction are fixed and connected (Jagose, 1996).
Queer theory confronts heterosexism and heteronormativity (Halperin, 2003) as well as cisgenderism and cisgender normativity (the ways in which dominant norms, values, policies, and practices center and privilege cisgender people and marginalize transgender and non-binary people). To promote queer liberation, queer theory problematizes replication and the adherence to dominant norms (Slagle, 2003).” (From reading below, Seelman et al., 2021)