My Body, My Closet

Samuels, Ellen

doi:10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-233

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“…Valentine's (1993) work on sexuality and identity management is one example: she too draws on Goffman (1959) to theorise the time-space strategies of sexual identity performance, but the respondents of this now nearly 20-year-old study were concerned with passing as straight rather than assimilating as lesbian within the heteronormative mainstream. Today, when 'passing' as straight is read by many lesbians to be an untenable position of privilege and inauthenticity (Samuels, 2003;cf. Oswin, 2005), covering -being 'less out' in certain spaces and contexts and 'more out' in others, for example -appears to offer a defendable solution.…”

Section: The Concept Of Coveringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Amin's discussion, which focuses on the endurance of phenotypical racism (see also Peake & Kobayashi, 2002), can be extended to examine the role that visibility plays in the politics of difference more broadly. For marginalised groups, being legible and recognisable is both a necessary evil and a trap (Barnhurst, 2007;Clarkson, 2008;Munt, 1998;Phelan, 1993;Samuels, 2003;Skeggs, 1999;Walters, 2001). On the one hand, attaining exposure that represents 'normalised', if marginalised, difference is encouraged within the identity politics paradigm of civil rights, and there is an implied reward for those who are recognised as legitimate within the boundaries of a particular group.…”

Section: The Concept Of Coveringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces

Myrdahl

2011

Leisure Studies

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In this article, I use research on the lesbian fans of US women's professional basketball (WNBA) to outline how a set of exclusive cultural politics (re)produces a curious form of self-regulation amongst target consumers. I link leisure geographies and geographies of sexuality through an analysis of lesbian visibility to examine the ways that identity performance is shaped by the implicit cultural politics at work in WNBA arenas. I use Kenji Yoshino's adoption of Erving Goffman's term 'covering' to discuss the ways that normative ideologies are reinforced by management-driven practices and by the self-circumscribing practices of some lesbian fans. I show that covering is noteworthy as both an effect of marginalisation and as a mandate that encourages lesbian fans to reproduce the dominant discourse at work in WNBA arenas. I argue that act of covering illustrates the material effects of normative power relations and the ways that these effects are understood to be a natural outcome of an apolitical economic logic instead of the result of the decidedly political process of spatial production. I contend that attempts to cover give lesbian fans a false sense of power to regulate the reception of their bodies and their enactments of normativity.

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Section: The Concept Of Coveringmentioning

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Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces

Myrdahl

2011

Leisure Studies

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“…Hidden impairments and impairments which are not outwardly visible (Montgomery 2001). There is significant academic literature on how people with hidden impairments are treated differentially on account of their impairment being less visible (Montgomery 2001;Samuels 2003;Ginsberg 1996). Where a person with a hidden impairment is treated as a person without a disability, this is referred to as passing (Ginsberg 1996).…”

Section: Hidden Impairmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that people with certain disabilities might not be required to disclose, or might choose not to disclose, certain impairments. Such hidden impairments might include sensory impairment below a certain level, learning and cognitive differences and repetitive strain injuries (Samuels 2003).…”

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“…Samuels (2003) defends the right of people with disabilities to 'pass' in order to gain a more beneficial position in society. This is because, under the social model, they are in no way responsible for the structural disadvantage which they are seeking to avoid (even if they may suffer feelings of 'misrecognition and internal dissonance' as consequences of passing) (Samuels 2003).…”

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Some Parents Are More Equal than Others: Discrimination against People with Disabilities under Adoption Law

Connell

2017

Laws

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Article 23 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) explicitly includes 'the adoption of children' as a right to which people with disabilities are equally entitled. Despite the CRPD having been in force for over nine years, research is yet to consider whether CRPD signatory states have brought their respective adoption regimes in line with their obligations under art 23 of the CRPD. Using the laws of the Australian state of Victoria by way of case study, this article aims to shed light on the difficulties people with disabilities still face when attempting to adopt children. In terms of methodology, this article conducts an interpretive critique of Victoria's adoption law against art 23 of the CRPD, which it interprets mainly through the lens of the social model of disability. Ultimately, this article finds that Victoria's adoption framework closely resembles the adoption regimes of many other CRPD signatories, yet it clearly fails to uphold Australia's obligations under the CRPD. This is both as a result of the words of the legislation as well as their implementation in practice. This article proposes a suite of changes, both legislative and cultural, to bring Victoria's adoption framework in line with art 23, which it hopes will serve as a catalyst for change in other CRPD signatory states.

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Theories and implications for centering Indigenous and queer embodiment within sociotechnical systems

Wagner

Marsh

Curliss

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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This paper explores the role of Indigenous and queer embodiment in understanding the current limitations of sociotechnical systems as they relate to cultural heritage institutions. Through the utilization of a critical case study the paper highlights the ways in which the ideologies of colonialism and cisnormativity render Indigenous and queer identities invisible within cultural heritage institutions. In particular, the case studies highlight information organization, archival description, and cataloging as sites of ideological reinforcement for colonialism and gender binaries. In response, the paper identifies methods for not only naming such normative ideologies, but actionable ways to challenge such inequities through community‐led, Indigenous, and queer affirming descriptive practices. Additionally, the paper attends to the way findings impact other historically marginalized identities and theorize methods for confronting such inequities within sociotechnical systems more broadly.

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My Body, My Closet

Cited by 272 publications

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Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces

Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces

Some Parents Are More Equal than Others: Discrimination against People with Disabilities under Adoption Law

Theories and implications for centering Indigenous and queer embodiment within sociotechnical systems

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