{"id":196,"date":"2016-09-23T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-09-23T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:46:30","slug":"who-what-when-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/23\/who-what-when-where\/","title":{"rendered":"who what when where"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; \u00a0(45)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This line stood out to me in particular because of the way it relates to our discussion of identity and queer theory. \u00a0In context, she&#8217;s speaking in terms of her sampler and how it makes more sense in Elsie&#8217;s house than in her sewing class. \u00a0However, I think that this concept is really interesting when applied to the idea of identity. \u00a0Take for instance a lesbian couple. \u00a0According to Winterson, there is nothing inherently wrong with the couple themselves. \u00a0Place them in a Greek Orthodox church, however, and issues arise. \u00a0However, if you take a devout\u00a0Greek Orthodox and place him in a lesbian dive bar in the West Village and issues are bound to arise there too. \u00a0Perhaps\u00a0then it is environment that colors our perception of good and bad, right and wrong. \u00a0If something can be right in one context and wrong in another, is there such thing as something that is inherently, at its core, good? \u00a0And for that matter, can something be inherently, at its core, bad? \u00a0This might be a stretch, but this then leads me to explore the concept of gender. \u00a0I think that Winterson&#8217;s words here can be used to argue that everything, not just goodness and badness, is contextual and situational. \u00a0Therefore, gender, sexuality, and everything else that we as a society have forced into black and white boxes could be argued to be entirely situational, rather than inherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; \u00a0(45) This line stood out to me in particular because of the way it relates to our discussion of identity and queer theory. \u00a0In context, she&#8217;s speaking in terms of her sampler and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/23\/who-what-when-where\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">who what when where<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}