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WEEK 14 READING ASSIGNMENT - Coggle Diagram
WEEK 14 READING ASSIGNMENT
the silence surrounding issues of sexual orientation and identity stems from and is reproduced by stereotypes.
until recently sexual orientation has been omitted from international human rights agendas and LGBTQ+ people have been disregarded as active participants in community and national decision making processes.
"outing" is particularly controversial political strategy in Bolivia.
The queering of development is such a much needed project, in June 2001 the office of the United Nations high commisioners for Human Rights moved to increase its work on sexual orientation and gender identity.
sexuality is most definitely a survival issue, people have been beaten, killed, tortured, and kidnapped.
Sexual abuse, lack of knowledge on bodies, womens health, poor body image, eating disorders, depression and mental illnesses.
Suggestions for future research on women, sexuality, and development, with the aim of denaturalizing insitutionalized heterosexuality and of queering development.
Rethinking the family, researching LGBTQ+ lives, denaturalizing institutionalized heterosexuality, sexual rights as a developmental issue, LGBTQ+ forms of resistance.
Institutionalized Heterosexuality and the Disciplining of Women's lives.
Heterosexist assumptions in development frameworks, including paradigins of family structure, gender, sexuality, often contribute to the homogenization and stereotyping of "Third World Women" in development discourses and practices.
Amy's graduate research training speaks to how traditional, heterosexist ideologies of the family are reproduced as the norm in development theories and policy frameworks.
Women chose to create their own community based organizations to address their gender specific needs, family roles and identities.
Amy found out that women organizations served to discipline women as much as the state, the military, political parties or other male-based institutions did.
LGBTQ+ Movements and the Politics of development:
LGBTQ+ groups have been among the first to challenge traditional heterosexuality in Latin America societies.
ILGa, was probably the first international organization to fund Third World LGBTQ+ groups.
ILGA has transformed itself into an international, rather than a European umbrella organizations with over 350 member groups in approximately 80 countries.
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my personal opinion: growing up in a hispanic household it can be toxic to come out to older generations.
toxic masculinity is presented by father, uncles, and cousins.
I have a sister and she came out to my parents when she was sixteen years old, and although my parents were shocked for some time and assumed it was a phase, they still reminded her that they loved her.
luckily my parents accept my sister for who she is, and see her no different... sadly some of our aunts and uncles could not see it right away.
the historical regulation of sexuality and gender in Latin America.
in most latin america, homosexuality is incriminalized. In Colombia, gay men were tortured and murdered and were seen as disposible.
Apart from the systematic murders and physical violence, one of the most effective and widespread forms of repression of the LGBTQ+ communities has been through police edicts, and other local laws.
LGBTQ+ activists have revealed how heteronormativity in societal institutions and public discourses affects the most intimate aspects of women and mens daily lives.
Some queer people embrace the "American" way of being "gay" , while others reject it.
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intro: self-determination is looked as great, but when wanting to speak about their sexual identity nobody would listen.
one of the first public meeting over homosexuality was held in Lima, Peru in 1985.
Mujeres Creando, has set a path for other organizations!
explicit about the word queer, in other places that word is not regularly used.
the notion of queerness allows people to rethink dualism in western thoughts.
"queering development" is referring to how sexuality and gender can be rethought and reorganized in development practices, theories and politics.
this chapter is arguing that institutionalized heterosexuality has repercussions for heterosexual women as well as queen women.
the historical regulations of sexuality and the politics on sexual identity in Latin America, are also addressed.
Institutionalized heterosexuality in development theory and practicing its effects on LGBTQ+ communities of women.
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