Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Queer diddling of little kids through “praxis”.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
They want to normalize diddling kids. From the abstract:
“Sexualities scholarship marginalizes childhood sexual pleasure, positioning children as vulnerable subjects. This article repositions childhood sexualities within a pleasure-centered, globally oriented, and power-aware frame informed by feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives. Drawing on Southern research from South Africa and other contexts, we interrogate dominant narratives of sexual innocence that suppress young people’s desires and show how children negotiate pleasure and meaning amid intersecting hierarchies of age, race, gender, and class. By centering margins, we reveal pleasure as both contested and generative, exposing the workings of domination while opening pathways toward gender and sexual justice. We argue that rejecting adult-centric/adultist approaches to sexualities and attending to childhood pleasure is indispensable for an inclusive sociology and just sexual futures.”
Apparently, the real evil character from the Harry Potter series was the author herself. From the abstract:
“For two decades, JK Rowling was a prestigious global celebrity, the widely adored creator of beloved Harry Potter series and Wizarding World mega-franchise. However, in 2017, Rowling began to promote ‘gender critical’ transphobic ideology on social media and was consequently pejoratively labelled a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF). This article examines Rowling’s momentous shift in celebrity status and expound what we identify as celebrified transphobia. To analyse impacts of Rowling’s celebrified transphobia, we follow Stewart and Giles (2019) in using a field migration framework to analyse celebrity status, combining it with audience research. We argue the Wizarding World should be considered a cultural field and, as such, its defining criteria is a constitutive element of Rowling’s celebrity status. Examining effects of these criteria intersecting with Rowling’s celebrified transphobia, we present qualitative and quantitative analysis of data from an online survey with current and former adult Harry Potter fans (n = 242). This audience research reveals a defining principle of the Wizarding World cultural field is trans/queer inclusivity – despite being founded by a self-described transphobe. Although Rowling’s celebrity capital facilitated her field migration into gender politics, we find this transformation significantly depleted her once-elite status in the important cultural field of the Wizarding World.”
It wouldn’t be woke academia without “praxis”. From the book description:
“Re-imagining Feminist Leadership Praxis in Higher Education takes an approach that is grounded in feminist principles and practices.
“This book highlights inclusivity, equity, empathy, collaboration and actively confronts and dismantles entrenched hierarchical power structures that reinforce gender inequality and other oppressions. Its carefully curated chapters explore the progressive theories, principles, and politics guiding leadership within higher education. Direct voices of feminist leaders emerge through critical, self-reflective engagement with their equity-driven leadership practices, while scholars of feminist leadership contribute by employing the framework of transformative leadership praxis to interpret and explain their empirical research.”
Hat Tip: Colin Wright.
TTFN.
