Seeking intimacy: queer agency, normativity, and emergent identities. Issue 5 (3rd September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elund, Jude
• Is Part Of: Continuum. Volume 33:Issue 5(2019)
• Page Start: 590
• Page End: 601
• Publication Date: 2019-09-03
• Subjects: gender -- sexuality -- queer -- identity; Motion pictures -- Australia -- Periodicals; Broadcasting -- Australia -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2019.1644807
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1030-4312

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper provides a small snapshot of some of the issues regarding LGBTIQ+ experiences and identities. Of particular importance are the political and personal agencies of personhood and expression – how do individuals perform and experience gender and sexuality outside both heteronormativity and homonormativity? This paper analyses fluidity across geographies and mobilities, with a specific emphasis on age, categorization and identity expression. It also looks at sexual expression in individuals outside of dominant Western culture, as well as post-modern expressions of queerness and social media representations. Most importantly, the paper focuses on homonormativity, non-normativity, and divergent ways of being, interrogating the same-sex marriage debates and legislation in Australia.