{"id":809,"date":"2022-09-28T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=809"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:25:00","slug":"queer-bodies-are-the-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2022\/09\/28\/queer-bodies-are-the-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Bodies are the Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Eli Clare\u2019s book Exile and Pride<\/em> the chapter \u201cthe mountain\u201d there is this passage, \u201cThe body as a home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies\u201d (Clare 11). In this passage I think that Clare has clear repetition when it comes to the theme of collectiveness. This is made evident to me when he mentions the phrase \u201cnever singular\u201d and the word \u201ccountless\u201d with these references he is committing to the idea that the identities of people are not fixed by their own individual experiences but rather they are in some part motivated by other people\u2019s experiences which can cast a shadow on their own life. He is saying s the people around us play a part in how we understand ourselves and our bodies. This doesn\u2019t seem to be dependent on just familiar relations such as parents or siblings but it can be the stories and voices of other people within a group that individual possibly finds home in. In this case, I will focus on how acknowledging the stories and bodies of other people in the LGBTQ community can help strengthen one’s view of their own identity and what queer can mean for them. One of the main class themes that we learned about after reading Adrienne Rich\u2019s \u201cDiving into the Wreck\u201d was the idea of not just hearing the stories of the oppressed people or the \u201cwreck\u201d but seeing \u201cthe thing itself and not the myth\u201d (Rich 102). By this I think she means that we must not get these LGBTQ experiences second hand and instead should hear of them from the people who are apart of this community. The voices and bodies of other queer people are meant to be heard so that they can help a queer person understand their identity better which is what makes reading LGBTQ literature like the one that Clare\u2019s passage comes from so important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Eli Clare\u2019s book Exile and Pride the chapter \u201cthe mountain\u201d there is this passage, \u201cThe body as a home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies\u201d (Clare 11). In this passage I think that Clare has clear repetition when it comes … Continue reading Queer Bodies are the Wreck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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\/5013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}