[Clip] Gender, sexuality, and destabilization

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[Clip] Gender, sexuality, and destabilization
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If you think about the fluidity of concepts like gender and sexuality that are felt or they’re easy to mobilize against as something destabilizing because you have movements around gender, sexuality, gender identity, are asking us to rethink core concepts of how we live, core concepts of how we accept people and let them live their lives. And I think for a lot of right-wing movements, there is a, there’s kind of a knee-jerk reaction to kind of present this as a threat and to present nationalism or religious tradition or certain traditional values as something more fixed, more stable. I mean, I disagree with that. I think that those are all imaginations that things were so much more fixed or stable, more simple back in the day. But at the same time, it’s easy for proponents of these movements to really present LGBTI people as kind of changing too much or changing things of these more fixed categories because of the fluidity. And that makes them become a big target in these movements. I don’t think that a real political concern right now is something like Drag Queen stories which a lot of these populist politicians, right-wing populist politicians are targeting as a major threat or concern that we have to talk about whether in the US or in Brazil or in Germany. But they nonetheless can bring this up as a topic of concern because it symbolizes something, some change, symbolizes something that can easily be manipulated as a threat. And I think that’s part of why LGBTI people and their issues can factor into some of these movements as well.

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