{"id":1094,"date":"2016-04-10T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2016-04-10T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:27:51","slug":"let-tyler-live-pls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/04\/10\/let-tyler-live-pls\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Tyler live pls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <em>Gender Trouble<\/em>, \u00a0Judith Butler articulates the ways in which gender is constructed and the ways heteronormative structures of gender and sexuality are maintained through socialization and surveillance. Visual signifiers of gender consist of presentations and absences, the recognition of non-heteronormative characteristics. Those who perform gender in a non-normative way are challenged and punished by those who recognize these differences through \u201cintelligible grids of an idealized and compulsory heterosexuality\u201d (Butler, 135). As a result of gendered socialization and the processes of being rewarded and checked for either conforming or nonconforming to one\u2019s gender assignment at birth, the frameworks of heterosexuality are maintained. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The gardener, Hector, \u00a0draws a parallel between the experiences of his brother, Randolph, and the ways Tyler is treated by the community. He states, \u201cHe was kind of funny. He was like you\u201d (Mootoo, 73). Through this statement, Hector acknowledges certain visual signifiers of Randolph and Tyler\u2019s gender expression that cause them to be coded as different. \u00a0In <em>Cereus Blooms at Night<\/em>, the treatment of Nurse Tyler exemplifies the ways in which gender and sexuality are conflated. At Paradise Alms House, Tyler is isolated socially due to his gender expression and performance; he is coded as a cis gay man by the other nurses in the home due to his perceived feminine qualities and attraction to men. These assumptions are complicated by the fluidity of Tyler\u2019s gender in the beginning of the novel. Throughout <em>Cereus Blooms at Night<\/em>, Tyler increasingly becomes more comfortable in his gender expression with the help of Mala and Otoh as they ease the looming presence of constant surveillance. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gender Trouble, \u00a0Judith Butler articulates the ways in which gender is constructed and the ways heteronormative structures of gender and sexuality are maintained through socialization and surveillance. Visual signifiers of gender consist of presentations and absences, the recognition of non-heteronormative characteristics. Those who perform gender in a non-normative way are challenged and punished by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/04\/10\/let-tyler-live-pls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let Tyler live pls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}