I found an article discussing the idea of queerness and sexuality which we talked about last week. The article Cultivating Children’s Queerness presents the idea that it is important to cultivate children’s genderqueerness by abstaining from imposing gender on them. For example, a child who displayed destructive behavior by destroying toys, plants, etc. was considered normal due to his male gender instead of as a normal aggressive toddler. Gender is a lens that governs how we view behavior as normal or abnormal. It is important to provide children with various gendered options instead of the gender binary structure which they commonly are. The article mentions how even those parents who accept and love their children after they exhibit signs of queerness should instead introduce queerness so they are able to experiment with acceptance. I think it is important to celebrate queerness as the article discusses so they are given various options, opening their lives to gender exploration and the different possibilities of sexuality.
http://feministpigs.blogspot.com/search/label/queer%20politics
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