#metronormativity

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Abstract

Public libraries offer drag storytimes to promote appreciation of diversity and difference, in addition to supporting early and emergent literacy and school readiness. Previous research has shown that drag storytimes include more picture books depicting LBGTQ+ characters than non-drag storytimes. In this analysis, we examine the ways in which representations of LGBTQ+ characters in a corpus of picture books read during drag storytimes are intersectional, reflecting the diverse identities of LGBTQ+ individuals and families. We also examine the ways in which books in this corpus reflect metronormativity, the belief that LGBTQ+ people predominantly live and thrive in urban areas. The books in this corpus included limited representations of intersectional LGBTQ+ identities, with greater diversity among LGBTQ+ non-lead characters. These books also reflected metronormativity, as more books included depictions of LGBTQ+ characters living in urban areas as compared to rural or suburban areas. Our analysis serves to highlight the ongoing need for the publication of books featuring a diverse array of LGBTQ+ identities living in a variety of settings, in addition to their use in storytimes and other settings that aim to reduce bias and discrimination.

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We're supposed to take this gobbledygook seriously.

They never want to read books to the elderly, weirdly… 🤔

[darkshrimpemotions]

I don’t even know how to talk about the fact that Dean looks and sounds like my family, some of my old friends, me when I’m not masking my origins hard enough, and what it felt like as a queer person from rural America specifically, to watch this guy be in love with another man for eleven years, to learn and grow and have it not clash with his origins, or what it feels like now to have been queerbaited all that time and censored at the very end, and gaslit about it.

I also don’t know how to talk about how desperately unfunny and transparent I find all the “Dean looks like a homophobic racist” jokes coming from a bunch of smug city-dwelling white people who never watched the show, because they’re literally based in the exact same kind of bullshit that had me fighting to get rid of my accent by age 12 and refusing to wear anything from Walmart despite it being the most affordable option in my area, because it didn’t matter to rich white city folks what I actually thought or felt or how I actually treated other people, they were going to hear me speak and see my clothes and form an opinion that nothing I ever said or did could alter, and use it to feel superior and justify shutting doors in my face.

Anyway I don’t know how to talk about it but your performative disgust isn’t the woke hilarious take you think it is and on behalf of every tired queer leftist who ever lived outside of a major metropolitan area I really, really need you to shut up.

[trixclibrarian]

where other definitions of metronormativity I’ve encountered focus on queerness explicitly — I love the way this writing is expansive… both in application & in concept (of nonbinaries broadly) the world as whole surely is a queer one, no?

[southernstrategies]

Remapping Same-Sex Desire

In contemporary American queer studies, not only is there a metropolitan bias in thinking about queer location but a coastal one as well, and we have yet to address the limitations of narrowly ascribing queer culture(s) to concentrated geographic areas and political spheres. Specifically, in the US, we have not yet begun to challenge popular assumptions that the seaboard cities are the only…

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[gwsoc200-blog]

This video features a very country aesthetic when the band is shown playing, intercut with vignettes that clearly reference experiences of isolation. The first such vignette is pretty obviously coded as queer, featuring a boy with a fashion magazine being bullied in a locker room. It's interesting to see this in the video for a country pop song, given the cultural coding of country music as a rural (and often anti-LGBTQ) phenomenon. There is a strong message of metronormativity in the chorus: "Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city, and all you'll ever be is mean." --Cabell

[flyingoverrussia]

Criticizing the stereotype of the fully realized, urban gay person, a new academic book calls on LGBT people to reclaim the countryside.

"After all the queer theory and big words, his message is quite simple: Go out to the country and form your own community."