Tournament: 1 Grapvine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison HB | Judge: Jyleesa Hampton
The affirmative’s act of including marginalized groups- under the power of the state is an just an act of pinkwashing-a persuasive political discourse fueled by modified neoliberalism in attempt to normalize civil society and legitimize alternate forms of hidden violence
Puar 2013 (Jasbir K., PhD. in Ethnic Studies, Director of the Graduate Program of the top-ranked Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University, “Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities”, Jindal Global law review Vol:4 Issue: 2 published November 2013, page2 33-34, Yung Jung)
In keeping with the movement of homonationalism-as-assemblage in its questioning of
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rights industry, and finally, the role of the U.S.
Their conception of embodiment and identity presumes an intersection of positions from which to demand accountability—this rendering of the social field reproduces disciplinary power and locks us into the grid of positionality, preventing change
Puar 7. Jasbir Puar, professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Duke University Press: Durham, NC and London, UK, pg. 211
There is no entity, no identity, no queer subject or subject to queer
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Indeterminacy and determination, change and freeze-framing, go together."24
Homonationalism has justified liberal interventions in foreign countries – recreates biopolitics of the state controlling its population and violations of freedom
Puar 13 - Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (Jasbir, 2013, Rethinking Homonationalism, Int. J. Middle East Stud. 45 (2013) ) /AMarb
In my 2007 monograph Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (hereafter TA),
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does not cohere only through 9/11 as a solitary temporal moment.
The alternative is to reject the aff as an act of queer suicide terrorism –an explosion, in favor of unsettling the violent definitions of subjectivity. This is a complete refusal of western notions of subjectivity and a universal humanity. We are machinic organisms, metal and environment together in a messy fusion. Where does life begin and end? This question is only answerable from a position of reason and power that we want to blow up.
Puar 07. Jasbir Puar, professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, Duke University Press: Durham, NC and London, UK, pg. 216
The fact that we approach suicide bombing with such trepidation, in contrast to how
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ballistic body. Contagion, infection, and transmission reign, not meaning.