Tournament: Fayetteville March Madness | Round: 1 | Opponent: Don Tyson CC | Judge: Trey Bowerman
Venture capitalists like Elon Musk seek to appropriate space by doing things like nuking Mars so that it can be terraformed into something similar to Earth. This drive to make Mars in the image of Earth exports anti-queer ideologies into space. Instead of allowing private appropriation of space, we should adopt a model that allows us to discover ourselves in the queer diversity of outer space. Oman-Reagan, 15
When NASA received a signal from the Voyager 1….. here on Earth. A queer diversity
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Status quo LD is heteronormative and doesn’t acknowledge non-binary persons; the over reliance of tech over truth allows the flow to justify rhetorical violence. The overall endorsement of misgendering turns what should be safe zones into spaces of oppression for non-binary competitors. This chilling effect leads to self-loathing and gender dysphoria. Blake, 19
As debaters continue to conflate women …..Which results in the disconnect this article reveals.
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Heteronormativity is also soul murder, Yep 2k3
These are the internal injuries that individuals…..heteronormative mandate a widespread form of soul murder?
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EDIT Today’s value is queerness; any other value inherently protects a heteronormative future. Today’s Value Criterion is subject formation. Debate is a space where we learn arguments that will shape how we view the world. ALL we take away is knowledge from this round so the VC in today’s debate HAS to be about what we learn and HOW it shapes us.
Institutional violence is a form of heteronormativity
Yep ’13
These are systematic and socially accepted .....experiences and in the social system and institutions.
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Shutting out queer relationality translates into a transmisogynistic functioning of the academy — carving out seconds of power is key to prevent that violence. Lavender, 19
I have no interest in attempting to write.....that would seek to upend the university itself.
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The queer body is constantly forced into life as overkill – this is the naturalization of antiqueerness that perpetuates violence that renders queerness inherently dead.
Stanley 2011
Overkill is a term used to .....to do violence to what is nothing.
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Vote aff to queer both outer space and debate; the method is key to adopt an intersectional approach that resists capital and colonial domination that creates solidarity among marginalized groups. Oman-Reagan, 15
It’s time to queer outer space.....— the answer might be you.
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Thus, the Role of the Ballot is to endorse a praxis to ends anti-queer violence both in the debate space and outer space. Until we imagine how queer futures exist in the cosmos, we will never fully understand how we recreate anti-queer violence on Earth. Orienting your ballot around the aff is key to challenge the reproductive normative futures through imagination. Oman-Reagan, 15
Queerness has been discussed and debated .....pop up where they least expect us.