Queer Refusal
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https://doi.org/10.18309/ranpoll.v52iesp.1593Keywords:
Refusal, Queer linguistics, Raciolinguistics, Translanguaging, IdeologyAbstract
This paper discusses instances where subjects recognize persuasive and regulatory authority, flaunt their indifference, their disinterest, their refusal in spite of perceived or real retaliation: “I don’t care”. This is a form of linguistic agency that need not be tied to privilege. Like other studies of “language from below” (BAYNHAM; LEE, 2019), queer refusal documents the lived experiences of language use, vulnerability and struggle. In this way, the paper’s examples invite dialogue with the totalizing practices of racial hegemonies outlined in raciolinguistic inquiry, not to deny hegemony but to suggest that queer refusal names instances where subjects, defined through oppressive practice, dare to break with oppression and enumerate their own alternatives.
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